Anari - 2007ko Martxoaren 31ean Bilboko Kafe Antzokian [2008]

Anari (Ana Rita Alberdi) (born in 1970 in Azkoitia, Gipuzkoa) is a Basque singer/songwriter. She released her first album in 1997 and has established herself as an important reference point in the Basque music scene. She has been often compared with other female singer/songwriters from English-language countries, such as PJ Harvey or Cat Power, due to the intricate nature of her songs' compositions and her intense live performances.

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Petti - On [2007]

A young songwriter and singer, a mixture of artistic modes influenced by Mark Lannegan, Tom Waits and the Basque Mikel Laboa. For a young person, the songwriter Petti displays maturity. Nevertheless, Petti has nothing to do with those who have gone before him, either when composing, singing or strumming his guitar. At live concerts he has an excellent trio backing him. In live gigs Petti operates with a great trio. Slide-blues, innovative American rock.

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Kila & Oki [2006]

Oki is a man on a mission. A Bob Marley-loving, forward-looking traditionalist from Hokkaido island (that of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan), he has taken to roaming the world, performing, collaborating, and educating. Singing in the Ainu language, using the emotive chords of the five-string tonkori as a foundation, he paints psychedelic patterns with samples, live vocals and other instruments including guitars, flute, drums and melodica. Dub Ainu Deluxe is a wonderfully indulgent stoner’s album, a mix of reggae-leaning rhythms and swirling, whirling sound effects that ebb and flow like ocean currents. On ‘Utari’, the sweet vocals of guest singer Fania become a foil for the guttural bass of Emi Toko, while the sound of children’s voices and the whimsy of the melodica give ‘Dub Arrow’ an upbeat, celebratory feel. Paradoxically, it’s ‘traditional’ tracks such as ‘Sannupista Dub’ that, deftly arranged, sound the most experimental; a shimmering portal into a parallel universe where things loop, double back and whiz through the air.

Oki and Kíla, a progressive/traditional Irish music outfit, forged an immediate connection when they met on stage during Kíla’s 2004 tour of Japan, where their unlikely pairing making for a fascinating mix. Featuring eight tracks written in Irish, Ainu and English, and recorded in just ten days, Kíla & Oki is proof of this rapport (particularly that of Oki and frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh), and also of how apparently disparate musical cultures can relate to each other in ways both innovative and ancient. Depending on the track, Oki’s eastern rhythms and dub obsessions lend an earthy feel to the often flighty and furious playing of the Irish ensemble (on fiddle, banjo, mandolin and other traditional instruments), while the multitalented Kíla sprinkle their energy and humour throughout. Any musical tensions are embraced and resolved as new avenues are explored and established. A very fine meeting of musical minds.
Jane Cornwell

1. Topattumi
2. Gaire Na Bpaisti
3. Our Children Are Laughing
4. Kai Kai As To
5. Ni Liom Fein
6. Ororo Raha (Mokoro Mokoro)
7. Haon Do
8. Kent Hakka Tufse
9. Last Mile Home

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Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective - Watina [2007]

Palacio is from Belize and his music celebrates a culture called Garifuna, in which indigenous Arawak and Carib sounds, plus West African influences imported during the dark years of the slave trade are twisted around one another like a helix. Over the centuries, fiercely independent tribes-people maintained their identity even as European colonizers relentlessly pushed them from St. Vincent, where the Africans had been shipwrecked and intermarried with the local population, toward the Central American coast. But more recently, the culture had begun losing ground, especially in Nicaragua, a fact brought to Palacio’s attention when he visited that nation as teenage literacy advocate. His impassioned espousal of his birthright began when he got involved with punta rock, a synth-and-drum-machine-driven dance style popular during the 1990s. The present album represents a return to his roots. Blended Native, African and Latin exhalations create softly pretty, simply constructed, yet indelible melodies while percolating, hypnotic rhythms, some of which are anchored by a prominent Afro-Cuban clavé, get everyone moving. The songs are sung exclusively in the Garifuna language and built around folkloric sources like the ritual-based dügü. There’s not a false note anywhere in earshot but “Yagane”, a seafaring tune composed by and performed with Paul Nabor, a septuagenarian buyei (spiritual healer), is one stand-out; the delightful title track is another. –Christina Roden

Tracklist:
1- Aguyuha nidúheñu
2- Ameyengu
3- Ayó da
4- Baba
5- Beiba
6- Gagánbadibá
7- Lidan aban
8- Miami
9- Sin precio
10- Wátina
11- Weyu lárigi weyu
12- Yagane

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Antònia Font - Coser i Cantar [2007]

"Antònia Font" is a pop band from Mallorca (Balearic islands), created on 1997. Genius of surrealist sweet pop, they join the Bratislava Orchestra in this album.

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Mari Boine - Idjagiedas (In the hands of the night) [2006]

Mari Boine, born 1956 in Finnmark, Norway, is perhaps the most widely known Sámi musician and a very influential figure in contemporary Sámi music. Her music is a combination of pop, rock, jazz and traditional Sámi music, and most of her lyrics are in North Sámi. While the young radicals of the 1970s explored the almost suffocated yoik tradition and brought it back as an acceptable form of tradition, Mari Boine took it further and made it a part of the repertoire of modern Sámi music. In addition to her own texts, she has sung the poetry of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, for example. Her voice is both confident and emotional, and she has said in an interview with Kaltio magazine that when she performed, her old schoolmates could barely recognise the meek little Mari they had come to know. Anger was her way out of shyness and learned inferiority, but it has given way to much more reflective ways of expression.


01. Vuoi Vuoi Mu 04:50
02. Idjagiedas 05:44
03. Suoivva 06:04
04. Gos Bat Munno Cinat Leat? 06:21
05. Mu Ustit, Engeliid Sogalas 03:30
06. Davvi Bvttiin 06:48
07. Lotts 00:44
08. Diamntta Spillit 05:30
09. Geasuha 04:21
10. fruvv 04:20
11. Uldda Nieida 05:28
12. Big Medicine 04:40

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Itoiz - Itoiz [1976]

The touchstone of pop music in Basque, even after so many years, is still Itoiz. Formed in 1974 when there was as yet no Basque rock culture, from the first they fascinated fans and critics. Their early albums, now considered classics, took huge risks for a Basque band, merging symphonic rock with traditional Basque music, and the experience of peaceful life on the coast with existential lyrics. From their fourth album on Itoiz were largely a pop band, creating straight catchy melodies. With these later albums they became one of the most successful Basque groups in the eighties.

1. Phuntzionariat
2. Goizeko deiadar
3. Zati txiki bat La m'en
4. Lau teilatu
5. Hilzori I
6. Hilzori II
7. Foisis jauna
8. Astelehen urdin batean

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