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Stan Walker's ‘Te Arohanui', marks an important and deeply personal milestone for the award-winning Māori performing artist, as he shares his first body of work in Reo Māori. "It was inevitable that I would release a reo Māori album. It wasn't a matter of if, but when. Now is the perfect time. The...
What do you get if you mix a pound of Fela Kuti's Afrika 70, two cupfuls of The Meters, 250g of thinly sliced early James Brown and a level dessert spoon of psychedelic rock? - you get the heaving, convulsing powerhouse of soul music that is The Hot Grits. For over five years, this 11 piece band...
Putumayo Kids presents Acoustic Dreamland, a soothing collection of songs for bedtime and relaxation. Celebrated singer-songwriters perform unplugged music to lull children to sleep and for adults to unwind to. The CD includes beautiful renditions of songs originally recorded by Allman Brothers,...
‘Kura Huna', the 4th album from award wining artist Whirimako Black, is a beautiful album featuring a much-cherished collection of traditional waiata and chant originating from the Mataatua region (the landfall place of one of the very first waka to arrive in NZ). To bring these songs to a...
Whirimako Black is well respected for her deliveries in her native language, te reo Maori. Albums immersed in her proud culture include ‘Hine Pukohurangi :- Shrouded in Mist' (2001) and ‘Kura Huna' (‘Hidden Treasures') (2005) and now she focuses on Whirimako Black - the voice. In the midst of her...
The Putumayo Kids team searched worldwide for songs that are easy to sing along with. World Sing-Along includes familiar tunes like Jorge Anaya's cumbia version of "La Cucaracha," and the Fiddler's Green Bush Band's sprightly arrangement of "Waltzing Matilda" as well as Father Goose's Jamaican...
Step back in time with these beautiful and timeless French chansons by legends and contemporary artists. Though echoing the past, Vintage France proves how alive and hip classic French chanson remains. Several generations of musicians continue to find inspiration in tunes that were first...
Frenzy Music and Ode Records proudly present the first complete collection from Bill Sevesi and His Islanders' early period. Most of these tracks have never been released on CD. This album contains 24 captivating tracks based around Bill's ground-breaking, influential and best-selling albums ‘Sea...
The South Africa of the late 1970s was neither the right place nor time to launch a mixed-race punk band. Yet, following the student-inspired Soweto Uprising of 1976, it was also exactly the right conditions to foster a band like National Wake, one formed in an underground commune, and one whose...
Tamikrest means "crossing" in the language of the Kel Tamashek, a traditionally nomadic Saharan people that are commonly referred to as the Tuaregs. It is an apt name for a band that so successfully merges the values of their timeless culture with the sounds and visions they have encountered on a...
Hawai'i '13 debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Chart and #77 on the Top 200 Chart! Hawai'i '13 features 13 new songs including the hit singles "Take Me On" and "Good One," along with "Power In The Words," "Something About It," "Chocolates & Roses," "Hold Me Tight" and more! Produced by Danny...
Fiery Argentine trio Las Kellies return with their fourth album, which features a wonderfully eclectic collection of tracks, drawing on their post-punk and punk roots with added inspired from reggae and dance music as well as bands like The Slits and ESG . This heralds a new sound for the band,...
A musical passage of identity and connection, Whāia te Māramatanga is the Rattle debut of a new and original voice in the evolving journey of te taonga puoro. Rob Thorne's deeply-felt album is a concentrated conversation between the past and the present, a personal exploration of the spiritual and...
Having celebrated a decade as one of Scottish music's most distinctively sublime voices, Emily Smith begins a fresh chapter in her illustrious, award-winning, TV-appearing career. For her fifth solo album Echoes, Emily returns to her first love of traditional song. Her gift for finding a personal...
Edith Piaf rose from tragic childhood through street singer discovery, to be the quintessential Parisian entertainer and icon as the ‘Little Sparrow'. All tracks have been re-mastered and we can assuredly say this is the best collection of Piaf available at the moment. - Je Ne Regrette Rien (Very...
Since forming, the four0piece have undergone a meteoric rise in popularity (currently supporting The Strypes on their UK tour), rising from a crowd pleasing, gig-opening favourite at Dublin's Whelan's hotspot to garnering widespread recognition across the UK, supporting the likes of The...
SÓLSTAFIR are different. Their unique blend of metal with beautiful melodies, psychedelic moments and a strong undercurrent of classic / hard rock comes as varied and at times appealingly bizarre as the landscapes of their native Iceland. Their fifth full-length ‘Ótta' is the logical continuation...
After "Many Things", released in 2008, and "From Africa With Fury: Rise" in 2011, "A Long Way To The Beginning" is the third album by Seun Anikulapo Kuti with Egypt 80, the 14 musicians big band he's been leading since the death of his father Fela Kuti in 1997. It's actually the third part of a...