Punjab

Innovatively fusing traditional ethnic musics with state-of-the-art rhythms, the work of Deep Forest was best typified by their 1993 smash "Sweet Lullaby," which brought together the contemporary sounds of ambient techno with the haunting voices of the Pygmies of the central African rain forest…

"I spent a lot of time thinking why Alessandro Rossi called his record Emancipation. It’s a very intriguing word. It’s different to “liberty”, it’s different to “freedom”. The latter concept has, obviously, an important role in contemporary music, even if there’s little sensible discussion of what it actually means. Emancipation, though, isn’t so much a thing or a property, as an act or a moment…

Ravi Shankar - Inside The Kremlin (1989) {Private Music 2204-2-P}
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World / Indian Classical / Raga / Russian Folk / Meditative

Ravi Shankar, the figurehead of world music, was invited in 1988 to work with Russian musicians on a concert to mark the end of an Indian Festival in the Soviet Union. This recording was made on July seventh of that year, with over 140 musicians present: Shankar's Indian Ensemble, the Russian Folk Ensemble, the Government Chorus of Ministry of Culture of USSR, and the chamber orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic. Shankar composed all seven of the pieces here as a melding of the musics of India and Russia.

Without doubt the most important qawwal is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party – "Party" is a generic term for a qawwali ensemble but is also used in Sikhism and to describe some classical music ensembles, for example, shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan & Party. Dubbed Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali (the Brightest Star in Qawwali), he was born on October 13, 1948, in Lyallpur in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. He made his first recording in 1973 in Pakistan and a number of early EMI (Pakistan) albums jointly billed him with his uncle Mubarak Ali Khan.

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Angels Around (2020) {Heartcore Records HCR08}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Jazz / Guitar

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio - Angels Around traverses new musical frontiers in the standard jazz idiom. While Rosenwinkel, Hutchinson, and Deidda embody and emote the rich traditions of jazz at its purest form, make no mistake, this music is thoroughly contemporary, focused, and for the here and now.

Blue Note is proud to present a new batch of six “5 original albums” in one box sets celebrating legendary jazz artists from the Blue Note catalogue. This set contains early Blue Note albums of Joe Henderson featuring McCoy Tyner, Kenny Dorham, Horace Silver and more.