The Celia Collection

Lola's Wolrd Records marks ''The Latin Influence'' in Wolrd Wide Music Scene with its fresh release '' Latin Garden Vol.3''. Articulate, cross cultural, and versatile in its mood deliveries, the double CD, complied and mixed by Germay based DJ Gulbahar Kultur, features a collection of artists from Mexice, Argentina, Germay, Congo, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Japan, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Belgium, Chile, Switzerland, Italy, Cuba, the US, Brazil, Colombia and the UK. Obvious through the many styles andorigins of the songs covered and brought togetter in the album. Latin music is growing for new dimensions with electronica, remixing and other music styles' encountering the traditional

The fate of the music underground tunnel where radio monopolies were confined these threatening cultural revolutions. Nova catching mix of cult songs like White Rabbit, the acid trip of fifteen years before Jefferson Airplane and Devotion by John McLaughlin, one of the pioneers of jazz-rock fusion. 1981 and the lyrical and modernist breakthroughs of the new wave, Tuxedomoon. And his French electronics Heldon, with already big his New York Material, the group of Bill Laswell, a fellow traveler.

The Buddha Bar series has become a band name by now, and Buddha Bar, Vol. 4 does nothing to break the new tradition. Compiled by David Visan, the two-CD set is divided into "Dinner" and "Drink." The former is definitely music for the consumption of comestibles, pleasant and polite with exotic touches of world music, like Nitin Sawhney's "Moonrise" or Gotan Project's revolution of the tango with "Una Musical Brutal," but they're the mildest examples of the artists' output, never pushing themselves forward, but providing a backdrop for food and civilized conversation. "Drink" fares a little better, but has traces of anonymity - Time Passing with "Party People," for example, or Chris Spheeris and "Dancing With The Muse" could both come from a modern TV ad - although its less afraid of imposing itself…