Among American audiences, Manu Dibango is best known for "Soul Makossa," a highly infectious blend of African music, soul-funk, and jazz that became a major pop hit in the early '70s. The African artist revisited his signature tune on 1994's Wakafrika, which boasts an all-star cast that includes Peter Gabriel as well as Haiti's Papa Wemba and African heroes Ladysmith Black Mambazo, King Sunny Ade, and Youssou N'Dour. With such a stellar bunch of guests, Wakafrika should have been outstanding instead of simply decent.

Stephen Albert is counted as one of the most accomplished pioneers of ‘The New Romanticism’: a generation of composers seeking to reclaim some of the emotional expression lost through the rigors of intellectual Modernism in music. Inspired by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, TreeStone is a moving exploration of the tragic legend of Tristan and Iseult. In Concordiam reveals the range and complexity of Albert’s style in uniting angular dissonance with mellifluous harmonies. Albert worked closely with the Seattle Symphony on this work, revising it during his three year tenure as composer-in-residence.
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James MacMillan has produced a spate of works in various genres – symphonic, concerto, opera, theater, sacred, choral, and much else. He has achieved great success with a number of them, placing him easily among the leading Scottish composers from the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. 1990 was a watershed time for MacMillan: that year his theatrical piece Búsqueda (1988) was introduced at the Edinburgh International Festival, and his orchestral work The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was premiered at a Proms concert, both events catapulting him to national as well as international notice. The latter opus and his percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel are probably MacMillan's most popular large works. MacMillan's style incorporates some modernist characteristics (leftovers from his youth), but on the whole his music, with its use of Scottish folk music; his quite ……
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Fourteenth studio album by the work of Paco de Lucia. He joined in it for the first time a group of five musicians, called Paco de Lucia Sextet, which integrated the elements of an array of jazz to flamenco guitar. Jorge Pardo, Ruben Dantas and Carlos Benavent, in addition to second guitar of his brother Ramon de Algeciras and Pepe de Lucía's voice. Paco de Lucia with his sextet began on this record a new aesthetic that established a definite highlight for all the flamenco coming from that time.

JFranz Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin
Christoph Prégardien: Tenor / Michael Gees: Piano
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Label/Cat#: Challenge Classics CC72292 | Country/Year: Europe 2008 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost / Filefactory

…Challenge Classics' Die Schöne Mullerin with Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees is a recording worthy of taking pride of place on the shelf alongside such "classic" versions as those by Richard Crooks, Aksel Schiøtz, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and is in considerably better recorded sound than any of them.

The Jon Amor Blues Group is technically Jon Amor’s solo band under a different name and a wholly new flavour. Doherty brothers Chris (bass) and Dave (guitar) plus drummer Simon Small, all originally loaned from local Wiltshire outfit Hitchmo, have backed Amor for a number of years now for recording and touring his varied solo outtings prior to this switch back to blues. That said, there’s not really that much blues to be had on their self-titled debut. Most of the songs, to varying degrees of success, focus on raw riffs and the kind of energy very obviously captured by recording live in a room together, than they do on the traditional motifs of the blues.

EMF - Stigma
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Label/Cat#: Parlophone 0777 7 80348 2 7 | Country/Year: UK 1992
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Although the surprisingly intense Unexplained EP gave EMF's fans some clue as to the direction the band was going to take with its next album, Stigma still took many by surprise. A claustrophobic record filled with heavy walls of guitars, effects, and dark keyboards, Stigma is about as far away as possible from the sunny dance-pop of Schubert Dip. While that album hid some darker lyrical concerns under its bubbly pop surface, Stigma is almost entirely concerned with feelings of alienation from fame, love, and friendship. …

The story of this amazingly talented cornerstone of the Beatles unfolds in an incredible documentary. Featuring interviews with those closest to him, including wives Cynthia and Yoko Ono, son Julian and more, you get a firsthand accounting of how it all started, how it went right, how it went wrong and John's solo journey into advocacy for world peace.