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(Awesome Tapes from Africa)   www.awesometapes.com   Na Hawa Doumbia was just beginning a four-decade long career as one of Mali's foremost female singers when she recorded the four s more...

(Awesome Tapes From Africa)   www.awesometapes.com     The debut release from the archivist blog and DJ collective Awesome Tapes From Africa is a full spectrum re-release (CD, L more...

(Barsuk)   www.nadasurf.com   "It always feels like I'm waiting for something," coos singer Matthew Caws in the second track of Nada Surf's seventh album, The Stars Are Indifferent t more...

(Amormusic)   www.amormusic.com   You won't find two cities more different on the surface than Paris and Tucson. But while listening to transplanted Frenchman Naim Amor's instrument more...

(Transom Records) www.transomrecords.com   The name Naomi Greenwald would seem better suited to a type of woman who's drawn more towards mahjong than music. It could belong to the girl ne more...

(Daptone)   www.daptonerecords.com   Having played no small part in bringing back the sounds of vintage soul, Daptone Records has recently turned to the music which birthed it, firs more...

(SPV/Steamhammer)   www.spv.de     This is the comeback album AC/DC should have written, starting with the cowbell-whacking cock-rock strut of "Speed Machine," which finds Bla more...

(Capitol/EMI)   www.natkingcole.com   Re:Generations attempts to bring the classic vocal and piano stylings of Nat King Cole - cut mostly in the post-Dionne quintuplets era of the 19 more...

(Six Degrees)   www.sixdegreerecords.com   Sung mostly in classical Arabic, Mounqaliba (In a State of Reversal) is Natacha Atlas's latest attempt to trace her musical lineage. The more...

(World Village)   www.worldvillagemusic.com   When Magreb-rooted, Belgian-born Natacha Atlas first shimmied into the British music scene, it was as the belly dancer and occasional s more...