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Irakere (faux-Yoruba for 'forest') is a Cuban band founded by pianist Chucho Valdés (son of Bebo Valdés) in 1973. They won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording in 1980 with their album Irakere. Irakere was a seminal musical laboratory, where historic innovations in both Afro-Cuban jazz and Cuban popular dance music were created. The group used a wide array of percussion instruments like batá, abakuá and arará drums, chequerés, erikundis, maracas, claves, cencerros, bongó, tumbadoras (congas), and güiro.

What mysteries of artistic creation and transmission over the centuries lie behind the ceremonies of the young Moxeno Indians of eastern Bolivia? These guardians of the archives of Baroque music, which they collect on their voyages up the river Mamoré, reconstitute year after year the musical heritage of the famous Jesuit missions of Amazonia, until recently thought to be entirely the work of the Italian composer Domenico Zipoli, whose 'Missa San Ignacio' and 'Beatus Vir' are included here.

Charlie Hunter, Chinna Smith & Ernest Ranglin - Earth Tones (2005) {Breadfruit Music GSE-704}
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Jazz / Reggae / Modern Post Bebop / Soul Jazz / 8 String Guitar

Groovemeister Charlie Hunter joins Jamaican guitarists legends Earl “Chinna” Smith and Ernest Ranglin for a spirited set that blends reggae flavor with dub aesthetics, courtesy of Saturday Night Live drummer Shawn Pelton’s adventurous echo and looping effects triggered from his kit. Anchored by the tight hookup between Hunter’s deeply grooving bass lines and Pelton’s insistent, slamming backbeats, Earth Tones also features the coloristic percussion work of former Weather Reporter Manolo Badrena.

Anthony Moses Davis, better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer. He is referred to as the world's "King of Dancehall". One of Jamaica's biggest exports, Beenie Man's recording career stretches back to 1981, although it was in the sound systems where he later made his mark. The witty toaster began his true ascent to stardom in the early '90s, and by 1994, his reputation couldn't be beat. Taking Beenie’s original 1992 album Cool Cool Rider and adding a heap of tracks from that era, this Trojan set is a highly desirable disc for the dancehall singer’s most hardcore fans. It’s likely they’ve encountered these tracks before, although on inferior sets with poor sound quality.

Bill Laswell - Imaginary Cuba (1999) {Wicklow-BMG Classics 09026-63514-2}
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© 1999 Wicklow / BMG Classics | 09026-63514-2
Dub / Cuban Music / World / Downtempo / Electronic / Dark Ambient / Jazz

Bassist and producer Bill Laswell has dabbled in several varieties of African music over the long and circuitous course of his career, with uneven results. But Latin America is a region he's left largely alone, until now. Imaginary Cuba finds him taking an approach somewhat similar to the one he employed on his Off World One project – building on a foundation of field recordings, he constructs complex and often dub-inflected sound collages that sound like no one but Laswell while still maintaining respect for the music's origins.

Vicente Amigo - Vivencias: La obra completa de un genio (2010) {Sony Music Box Set 6 CD & 1 DVD PAL rec 1991-2009}
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© 1991-2009, 2010 Sony Music | 88697758662
Flamenco / World Music / Guitar / Western European Traditions

For the first time ever, the complete recordings of Vicente Amigo, together in a 6 CD + 1 DVD box set, available only as limited edition. Limited special new pack with all the work of this brilliant guitarist. Since he came out his first album in 1991, VICENTE AMIGO is considered as one of the biggest artist of the flamenca guitar and his carreer is punctuated of gratitudes: Grammy Latino of the best flamenco disc in 2001; best flamenco guitarist for the magazine Guitar Player in 1993; two music awards in 1998 and 1999; a Ondas Prize in 2002… just to name some of them.