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Latest from this Sahara desert group, includes 30 min doco.

Recorded in Beijing and Urumqi, Eagle was produced by Robin Haller and Matteo Scumaci, and features a grassland dueling-banjos style duet
with multiple-Grammy award winner Bela Fleck (Track 4) as well as a bonus mix by the late, great French producer
(and Mamer-admirer) Hector Zazou.
(MySpace)

The Best Of Ray Camacho & The
Tear Drops which has been lovingly compiled by DJ/promoter and all round good egg Pete Isaac, the man responsible for Jelly Jazz which is one of the UK’s
longest running funk/soul/jazz/latin club nights of the last 20 years! Latin Funk at its best!

DuOud consists of two oud-playing
Istanbul-based musicians: Tunisian
born Jean-Pierre Smadja (already
noted for two albums he issued as
Smadj on MELT 2000), and Algerian
born master oud player Mehdi-Haddab
(known for his work with the acclaimed
French based trio, Evoko, and more
recently Speed Caravan). Blending their
North African hetirage with the latest
Western technology, the pair builds a
musical cycle that looks to their African
roots while absorbing and morphing
contemporary music styles- break beats,
jazz grooves, and metal guitar. While
DuOud are not the first to mix the North
African lute with electronic technology,
they do it with such an imaginative freedom
that sets them apart from their contemporaries;
their debut album Wild Serenade saw them
nominated for the Best Newcomer award in the
2003 BBC Music Awards. On Ping Kong, DuOud
hovers between tradition and futurism, with
varying moods ranging from surf kitsch to
contemporary groove. The album features cameos from Cyril Atef from Bumcello and Malouma.(Amazon)

'Friends of Bamboute' is the long-awaited follow up to 2006's 'Between the Desert and the Sea'. Recorded in Cairo and Port Said, the disc recounts both tales of the 19th century Bambutiyya merchants who frequented the old-time cafes and hashish dens along the path of Suez Canal, and devotional Sufi songs from the Egyptian delta.(Amazon)

Creative music from the Balkans! Aksak's creativity falls within the scope of Balkan traditions. The musicians in the band have managed to renew this musical language, irreversibly. They have a rare ability to synthesize, and it has enabled them to bring a musical expression out of its context and transcend its formal and functional aspects, drawing out its universal dimension.(Amazon)

VULGARGRAD are a seven piece band fronted
by the incredible vocal talents of one of Australia's
most formidable stage and screen actors; Jacek Koman
(CHILDREN OF MEN, MOULIN ROUGE, AUSTRALIA). '
VulgarGrad' perform primarily traditional Russian
criminal / thieves' songs (called blatnie pesny or blatnyak)
and more generally; songs from the vulgar side of Russian
popular music. The band delivers this music with style,
raucous menace, stripy shirts and a smattering of grim smiles.
Legend of stage and screen, Jacek Koman is the genial but
vengeful frontman who roars with the voice of a man betrayed.
He is backed by a gang of Australia's most illustrious ex-cons!
Amazon)

Amazing album by Bela Fleck and friends.