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Toumast: Amachal

Toumast: Amachal

‘Amachal’ is an album that reflects both the political turmoil of Mali and its cultural identity through Touareg traditional singing and percussion intertwined with the sound of the electric guitar.

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Label Sampler: Numero Group

Label Sampler: Numero Group

The third in our occasional series of label samplers, the Numero Group label are dedicated to, in their words, ” dragging brilliant recordings, films and photography out of unwarranted obscurity” and restoring them to lavishly packaged 180-gram vinyl LPs.

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Little Axe

Little Axe

Everyone gets the blues, says Skip McDonald, who should know. The legendary guitarist gets them – like, really gets them – more than most. “The blues are a fact of life,” he adds in a Dayton, Ohio twang undiminished by two decades of UK living. “It doesn’t matter where you are. The blues have no boundaries.”

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Grindhouse (mondo cane)

Grindhouse (mondo cane)

The grindhouse cinema of 60’s America more often than not consisted of a double feature filled with themes of exploitation and excessive gore, sex, rebellion and mayhem. All the things that make life a little more interesting, especially if we can see them on the big screen rather than suffering the inevitable consequences of indulging in them ourselves.

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Gwyneth Herbert

Gwyneth Herbert

If any recording is simply a snapshot of an artist’s progress, then ‘Ten Lives’ captures singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert at a very exciting moment in time. It documents the continuing development of one of the UK’s brightest talents and perhaps offers the most complete picture yet of a sublime talent.

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Dub Colossus

Dub Colossus

Recorded by a group of adventurous Ethiopians and Nick Page, one half of the British group Temple Of Sound, Dub Colossus is a unique attempt to mix traditional East African music with the most experimental reggae sounds.

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Tom Kerstens

Tom Kerstens

Tom Kerstens is a major figure in the guitar world. He is highly regarded as a versatile performer on modern and period instruments and is an influential champion of the guitar in his roles as player, recording artist and artistic director.

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Portico Quartet

Portico Quartet

Portico Quartet are four young musicians from South London who sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Living and playing together, they describe themselves as an indy band playing post-jazz and their unique sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to Radio 4 and Notion to BBC Music Magazine.

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Charlie Winston

Charlie Winston

Charlie Winston - Charlie for Chaplin, Winston for Churchill - was born into a family of artists. Brother, Tom Baxter, sister Vashti Anna, also sing divinely, and his parents…

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Dengue Fever

Dengue Fever

Dengue Fever create a tropical cocktail of Cambodian colour.

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Julianna Raye

Julianna Raye

The Bossa Nova rhythms on Los Angeles singer/songwriter Julianna Raye’s inspired new album, Dominoes, are so gentle and relaxing you almost take the heart-aching beauty of these songs for granted.

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Brett Anderson

Brett Anderson

"I made this album with the purest of intentions: to create a beautiful suite of songs untethered by second-guessing markets and playlists and music biz bullshit. I have no record company, no publisher and a smaller audience but I have never been more confident and focused about what I am doing as an artist."

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Benjamin Grosvenor

Benjamin Grosvenor

This and That is Benjamin Grosvenor's recording debut and was recorded at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, exclusively for the B&W Music Club. His handpicked repertoire is beautifully judged and includes pieces by Scarlatti, Chopin and Brahms amongst others.

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Daby Touré and Skip McDonald

Daby Touré and Skip McDonald

As soon as they met, they knew each other. Skip McDonald: an old school bluesman from Dayton, Ohio, and long-time resident in London, UK. Daby Touré: a thirty-something musician raised in Mauritania, West Africa, now a leading light on the Paris, France scene. Their inevitable Real World album pays testament to a remarkable musical union.

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Speed Caravan

Speed Caravan

Speed Caravan create music that references The Cure and The Chemical Brothers alongside Algerian rai and other Arabic influences in a glorious collision of global sounds and styles.

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Trio Goya: Haydn - The Heart of Invention

Trio Goya: Haydn - The Heart of Invention

Trio Goya play Classical chamber music on period instruments. Each a leading player of their instrument, they come from three very different parts of the world – America, Transylvania and England.

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Syriana

Syriana

Imagine a dialogue between East and West. A dialogue of hopes and fears, similarities and differences, histories and futures; a conversation charged with emotion and balanced with respect.

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The Creole Choir of Cuba

The Creole Choir of Cuba

Be prepared to hear something completely different and ‘new’ from Cuba. In glorious songs like Edem Chanté (Listen To Us!), The Creole Choir celebrate the history of their Haitian descendents enslaved to the Caribbean from West Africa.

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Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

‘50 Years in Music' is a series of new orchestral recordings of Morricone's most famous themes, due for release in 2010, and this Society of Sound release is a unique preview of this spectacular work surveying one of the most illustrious careers in the history of cinematic music.

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David Rhodes

David Rhodes

'Bittersweet', recorded in four days at Real World Studios, is the first album recorded under the name of Peter Gabriel's guitarist-of-choice David Rhodes. He tells us why it's taken him so long to take centre-stage.

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