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Moorish Music from Mauritania...

Sudan's Hamza El Din is a master of the oud (a fretless forerunner of the lute), and the man who first introduced Americans to the instrument in the '60s. On this, his first album in three years, his playing is as wonderful and mesmerizing as ever--you can almost feel his fingers touching the string...

You might say Femi Kuti is carrying on the family business begun by his late father, the great Fela, with whom Femi played for a while. But instead of the extended Afro-beat workouts that were Fela's musical trademark, Femi has a sound that's more based on '70s American funk--think Tower of Power wi...

The Sound of Rio: Brasileirinho is a 90-minute documentary film about choro, the first fenuinely Brazilian urban music. The film remembers its history but shows, above all, a colorful picture of Choro's vitality today....

This CD hails the return of the Congolese rumba by one of the great veteran singers of the genre. Sam Mangwana, who has sung with such giant figures of Congolese music as Franco and Tabu Ley Rochereau, revives a style that has fallen out of fashion--and it makes for glorious listening. With songs pe...

With her haunting singing style--a zesty Luso-African mélange of Bessie Smith and Billie Holliday--the Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora put the moving and melancholy musical genre called morna on the map with her critically acclaimed recordings Miss Perfumado and Cafe Atlantico. São Vicen...

Early in the 1980’s, Ray Barnett traveled to Uganda after hearing a report saying, "Over 150,000 orphans are dying of starvation in Uganda". Ray, raised as an orphan himself, desperately wanted to do something. He knew if people back home could only see these beautiful children in person, they wou...

After earlier albums that focused on the Australian didgeridoo and Central African Pygmy chant (later discovered by Deep Forest), Aussie Martin Craddock has broadened his scope for a truly global world beat fusion album. African beats are at the heart of these eight songs, but Gypsy, Arabic, jazz, a...

Traditional Songs & Dances from Africa...

A remastered collection of the prized late '70s-early '80s recordings of the string quartet called African Virtuoses, this album will excite old fans and surprise new listeners....