Track Listing

1. Get Together - Tony Allen
2. Loi - Koffi Olomide
3. Mahanhela - Mabulu
4. Joe le Taxi - Sharlene Boodram
5. Jaro - Impact All-Stars, Tommy McCook
6. En Guantanamo - Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Pi�eiro
7. Mabarane - Sheer All Stars
8. Pyar Ka Hai Bairi
9. Akata Sun Dunchi - Bob Brozman, Takashi Hirayasu
10. James Bond Theme - Surf Champlers
11. Griogal Cridhe - Mac-Talla,
12. Maggio - Riccardo Tesi
13. Antin Mikko - JPP
14. Bassa - Momo Wandel Soumah
15. Salimata - Ifang Bondi
16. Qu� Pena
17. Secrets of the Life Tree - Arthur Kroker

Product Details

• Released on: 2008-08-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Compilation
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
For anyone still unaware of the riches awaiting discovery in the vast kingdom of world music, The Rough Guides Collection will make a perfect place to start. After conquering the travel-guide market, the Rough Guide empire is now doing the same with its CDs, profiling the music of every corner of the globe. This taster-disc begins with an up-to-the-minute dance number led by Fela Kuti's drummer, and ends with a timeless lament from the Klezmer group Kroke, and it takes in a kaleidoscope of other musics along the way. From the laid-back sound of Mozambican "marrabenta", via the lazy swing of calypso, to the sweet innocence of Cuba's "Guantanamera"; from a Highland lullaby to the breeziness of Italian "tenore" singing to the organetto; from the Goldfinger theme put through a drum & bass blender, to the acoustic purity of the Malian kora and balafon. And there's plenty of fusion, the most notable being a Mississippi blues delivered in an Okinawan setting. Listen up--then set off and explore. --Michael Church

Customer Reviews

rough bop
not as good as told by others, but in there own right they are unique and very tight! They would be nice if they did a live cd also? Noboby can touch be-bop delux! More breaks!