The title of the album says it all. Centuries ago, when the djinns, African bush spirits, gave the first ever kora to the griot Jali Mady Wuleng (Jali Mady The Red) it had 22 strings. When Jali Mady died his fellow griots took one string away in his memory. But in its southern Senegal and Guinea Bissau birthplace …
Nadur is Clannad’s first album of new material since 1998’s Grammy winning Landmarks, and features the full original line-up – siblings Moya, Ciaran and Pol Brennan, and their twin uncles Noel and Padraig Duggan – back together on record for the first time since the 1989 album Past Present. It is a fitting title for the coming together …
City of the Future – Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union
Yale Strom, the multiply gifted American violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, educator, photographer and playwright is among other things, considered a pioneer among klezmer revivalists with his comprehensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans regions within the Jewish and Rom communities. City of the Future explores the Jewish songs composed by Shmuel Polonski in 1931, …
Ancient nigunim (songs) and soulful melodies, including a nigun by the Ba’al Shem Tov and the rousing Bandits’ Nigun. Deeply moving singing, a cappella or accompanied by instruments including fiddle, flutes, bouzouki, guitar and darbouka. Includes 3 bonus tracks from celebrated Klezmer group The Burning Bush. A revered musician in the international Jewish community, ‘Mike Tabor is one …