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From the sixties to this day, Tunisian-French DJ, club owner and producer Claude Challe, has been the master of ceremonies of the most mythic spots in Paris – from the Privé to les Bains, the Centre-Ville and the Buddha Bar. His music compilations – gold records several times over – have brought him world-wide reknown. He created an eclectic blend of ambient, new age trip hop world, and house which became know as “lounge” and created a new genre world-wide. This beautiful best-of 3CD compilation, features selections from Claude's first albums (1996-2005), categorized in the three CD as "Love", "Life" and "Dance". Enjoy relaxing, inspirational music from one of the masters of the kind.

Highly acclaimed saxophonist Jesse Bannister brings together MOBO award winning pianist Zoe Rahman, double Mercury Prize nominated percussionist Seb Rochford and Corrine Bailey Rae bassist Kenny Higgins for an exciting and innovative exploration of jazz and Indian music.

India's classical music is deeply bound to the country's ancient mystical traditions. This unique Rough Guide brings together the greatest names in Indian Classical music, performing some of the most beautiful ragas of India's classical legacy. Enjoy the musical artistry of legendary performers such as Shivkumar Sharma, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain and Ravi Shankar.

Originally released on Planet Dog in 1995, Last Train To Lhasa was one of the classic electronica albums of the '90s, touching on ambient and trance. It was often mistaken as a Tibetan-themed record, but only the title track featured any Tibetan sounds (and it was famously featured towards the end of Sasha & Digweed's influential 1996 mix CD Northern Exposure).

Purple & Gold is a 1980 album by Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. He is joined by Shafaat Ahmed Khan on tabla.

This 4CD set is simply superb. I've had the 2CD version for almost 20 years (1997 I found it), and often wondered about the almost mythical third disc from the limited edition, especially the long remix of 887 (which is a ripper!). This set contains not only the full 3 CD set, but some additional tracks on Discs 1 and 3, and also an extended ambient mix of the long track (Kincajou) on the second disc.

India's classical music is deeply bound to the country's ancient mystical traditions. This unique Rough Guide brings together the greatest names in Indian Classical music, performing some of the most beautiful ragas of India's classical legacy. Enjoy the musical artistry of legendary performers such as Shivkumar Sharma, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain and Ravi Shankar.

In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Duree Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization.