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Mit Fischern durch die Inselwelt der Suaheli Küste. Auf die Gipfel der nebelverhangenen Virunga-Vulkane. Lebensmüde Busfahrer in Tansania und besoffene Hexenmeister in Südafrika. Verspielte Gorillas, die Flucht vor einem Elefanten und Stockkämpfe im Okawango-Delta. Aber auch: Tod, Angst und Drogen.

Alasdair Fraser is one of Scotland's most influential tradition-rooted fiddlers. A two-time winner of the open competition of the Scottish National Fiddle Championship, Fraser continues to expand the musical traditions of his homeland with his expressive and virtuosic playing. In addition to performing more than 50 times on BBC radio and television shows (and, in the U.S., on A Prairie Home Companion), Fraser has been featured on the soundtracks of such films as Titanic, Braveheart, The Spitfire Grill and The Last of the Mohicans. Fraser's 1996 album, Dawn Dance, which represented his first all-original recording, received a NAIRD award as best Celtic album of the year. The album's success inspired Fraser to form a band, Skyedance, with the musicians featured on the album.

Composer Michael Hersch releases two works featuring his frequent collaborator soprano Ah Young Hong: cortex and ankle with Dutch based Ensemble Klang and the script of storms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tito Muñoz. Hersch sets powerful texts by Christopher Middleton and Fawzi Karim respectively in these gripping works.

Nonesuch Records releases Michael Daves's two-album set, Orchids and Violence, on February 26, 2016. Both discs are produced by Daves and have identical track listing of mostly traditional bluegrass songs. The first features straightforward interpretations of them and was recorded live to tape in a 19th-century church by Daves and a band of roots-music innovators: bassist Mike Bub, violinist Brittany Haas, mandolinist Sarah Jarosz, and banjo player and Punch Brother Noam Pikelny.

Valerie è una bella ragazza tormentata da una scelta d'amore. E' inamorata di Peter, un vero e proprio outsider, ma i suoi genitori hanno già organizzato un matrimonio di interesse con il benestante Henry. Non volendo perdersi, Valerie e Peter hanno deciso di scappare via insieme ma all'improvviso la sorella maggiore di Valerie viene uccisa dal…

A detailed, scholarly reassessment of developments in Cambodia since December 25, 1978, when Vietnamese combat soldiers expelled the ruthless Pol Pot regime.