Artist: SoSaLaTitle: Nu World Trash
Label: DooBeeDoo Rec
Release date: beginning of March
Pre-sale: http://www.cdbaby.com/SoSaLa
Genre: nu world trash
CD review by Matt Cole
Artist: V.A. (Soundtrack)
Title: Listen…OKA!
Label: Oka Productions
Release date: February 1, 2012
Genre: African music master meets intensely creative, egalitarian hunter-gatherers to create gorgeously recorded, deeply complex score for feature film.
Artist: Sibiri Samake
Title: Dambe Foli
Label: Kanaga System Krush
Genre: Malian traditional music
Independent record label Kanaga System Krush (K.S.K.) released this fall Dambe Foli. Sibiri Samaké’s second and long-awaited album featuring traditional Mande/Bamana Hunters’ music.
Artist: Nawal
Title: Embrace The Spirit
Label: JADE/WARNER MUSIC
Genre: Comoros Island “sufi” folk music
Recommended by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Nawal comes from the Comoros Islands, in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar. Now based in Paris she is recognized as a key figure from her native islands. Between traditional and contemporary, Nawal’s compositions are an acoustic roots-based fusion, inspired by the light of her Sufi heritage founded on love, respect and peace. When live in concert, Nawal’ powerful voice and message is able to touch her audience’s hearts.
