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Various Artists - Rough Guide To Delta Blues (Vol.2) (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 30, 2022
Various Artists - Rough Guide To Delta Blues (Vol.2) (2022)

Various Artists - Rough Guide To Delta Blues (Vol.2) (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 78:54 | 226 / 172 Mb
Genre: Blues / Label: World Music Network

This Rough Guide highlights how the Delta blues became the most influential of all the blues forms, a must-have album for blues and guitar enthusiasts it features a classic collection of tracks by artists who laid the foundations for the electric blues and rock explosion to come.Featuring many blues legends including Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James and Tommy Johnson, tracks by blues divas Memphis Minnie and Mattie Delaney as well as more obscure artists across 26 carefully chosen tracks that have been lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques.There can be few finer examples of how grand culture can emerge from the most horrendous conditions and then flourish than the story of the Delta blues. Born of the oppressed labouring the rich soils of the Mississippi Delta region, no other musical form has had such an enduring influence on western rock culture.

VA - Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa (2015)  Music

Posted by aasana at Jan. 20, 2019
VA - Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa (2015)

Various Artists - Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) | 1:01:32 | 357 MB
Afro-Cuban, Psychedelic Salsa, World | Label: Rough Guides/World Music Network

Psychedelic rock and salsa came of age together in the mid to late 1960s under parallel socio-cultural circumstances of upheaval, unrest and experimentation within the respective youth cultures of their core audiences; the best known apotheoses being Santana in rock and Eddie Palmieri in salsa. Aside from the obvious Afro-Cuban influences in both artists, the historical connections between the psychedelic and salsa may not be that readily obvious to the casual observer, but there are quite a few, and this compilation aims to shed some light in this regard, at least musically.

VA - Rough Guide To Bollywood Disco (2014)  Music

Posted by aasana at Oct. 23, 2019
VA - Rough Guide To Bollywood Disco (2014)

Various Artists - The Rough Guide to Bollywood Disco (2014-09-29)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue) | 02:17:30 | 706,67 MB
Bollywood, Soundtrack, Disco | Label: World Music Network

Disco, Bollywood-style, is typically high-voltage: metallic flares, dazzling over-sized mirror-balls, smoke machines galore and Technicolor flashing dance floors. Let loose those dancing shoes and boogie down to Bollywood's glittering disco heyday with Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar and more.

VA - The Rough Guide to Railroad Blues (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 15, 2023
VA -  The Rough Guide to Railroad Blues (2023)

VA - The Rough Guide to Railroad Blues (2023)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 224 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 Mb | 01:17:42
Blues | Label: World Music Network

Since the very birth of the blues, the train has been a source of great inspiration for musicians. From the steam engine imitation tunes of pioneering harmonica players to wonderful variations on classic folk songs, this collection highlights how the railroad helped shape the blues.

VA - The Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 7, 2021
VA - The Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan (2021)

VA - The Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 405 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 172 Mb | 01:15:12
Experimental, World | Label: World Music Network

From boundary-pushing koto musicians to experimental jazz virtuosi, Japanese music has long embraced all things avant-garde. This Rough Guide highlights some of today’s key innovators whose individualism challenges the conformist perception of Japan.

VA - The Rough Guide to Mali Blues (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 17, 2020
VA - The Rough Guide to Mali Blues (2019)

VA - The Rough Guide to Mali Blues (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 322 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 159 Mb | 01:07:01
World, Desert Blues | Label: Music Rough Guides, World Music Network

From the beating heart of the capital city Bamako to the rich musical soils of Niafunké, Mali has become synonymous with the raw desert blues sound. Featuring the likes of the legendary Tuareg band Tartit as well as Songhai bluesman Samba Touré, this Rough Guide also includes tracks by other unsung heroes, all of whom share the same goal of preserving a culture under serious threat.

VA - Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa (2017)  Music

Posted by aasana at Sept. 30, 2017
VA - Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa (2017)

Various Artists - Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa (2017)
World, Africa | 01:06:06 | MP3, 320 kbps | 151,31 MB
Label: Rough Guides - World Music Network

This Rough Guide illuminates the fullest-fattest cream of West African music that has passed through the doors of Riverboat Records HQ over the last twenty-five years. Stretching some eighteen countries from Mauritania in the North to Congo in the South, West Africa is a place of many music’s. This selection focuses on the powerhouses of Senegal and Mali in the main. Enjoy our handpicked cuts and get ready to get knee-deep in the archive.

VA - Rough Guide to Acoustic India (2017)  Music

Posted by aasana at Oct. 31, 2017
VA - Rough Guide to Acoustic India (2017)

Various Artists - Rough Guide to Acoustic India (2017)
World, Indian, Ethnic | 1:06:36 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 152 MB
Label: World Music Network

Modern day India vibrates with amplified sound; ringtones, radios, the blast of a horn from a passing rickshaw. Along with the rest of the world, technology has changed the sound of India, it has made it louder and quite literally turned up the dial. Bollywood producers have long embraced synth strings, cranked-up electronic beats and auto-tune voicings. Alongside this glorious simmering, acoustic music seams up the cracks, often the protector of ancient instrumental traditions and the instigator of new ones. This Rough Guide offers a curated collection of contemporary acoustic Indian music.
VA - Rough Guide to the Best Arabic Music You've Never Heard (2015)

Various Artists - Rough Guide to the Best Arabic Music You've Never Heard (2015)
Arabic, World, Rock, Folk | 01:06:51 | Mp3, 320 kbps | 157 Mb
Label :Rough Guides/World Music Network | Year Of Release :2015

This collection of original fresh talent from across the Arab world is selected exclusively from artists entering World Music Network’s ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition. From the driving grooves of Algerian jazz-head Anis Benhallak to the instrumental oud and violin delights of Al Andalus Ensemble, check out the latest sounds of the Arabic speaking world.

VA - The Rough Guide To Acoustic India (2017)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 17, 2019
VA - The Rough Guide To Acoustic India (2017)

VA - The Rough Guide To Acoustic India (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:06:37 | 351 Mb
World | Label: World Music Network

From the five-hundred-year old musical history of the Sufi Fakirs of Bengal to the virtuoso musicianship of Calcutta’s guitar master Debashish Bhattacharya and Carnatic violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, this Rough Guide explores India’s ancient musical traditions and acoustic roots.