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Panama! - Latin, Calypso And Funk On The Isthmus 1965-75
ListenPanama! - Latin, Calypso And Funk On The Isthmus 1965-75 by Various Artists

Whatever was in the air in the late '60s in Panama, it certainly inspired the music to heights of cr...

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Shime!
ListenShime! by Culture Musical Club

There's no sound in the world quite like Swahili orchestral taraab, the gorgeous East African style ...

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La Luz Del Ritmo
ListenLa Luz Del Ritmo by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

A decade and a half since they unleashed "El Matador," just maybe the world's greatest rock single o...

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Solid Ground Keep Me In Mind Rita Abatzi Vol. 3: Recordings 1933 - 1937 Mouneïssa

Women of World Music by Chris Nickson

Good -- even great -- singers are everywhere. But true icons are very few and far between. Icons can sing gloriously, but they do something more; they speak for their people, transmitting their hopes and fears, their histories and their futures.

The women here are icons. Most of them developed their art over decades, many of them suffered deprivation and exile, or a hard life before they found fame, like the bordello upbringing of Edith Piaf. What they share is spirit and strength. The lengthy political struggles of ...
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ZZK Sound Vol.1 Cumbia Digital

Zizek and Digital Cumbia by Richard Gehr

Every Thursday night at the Voodoo Motel in Buenos Aires's styling Palermo neighborhood, resident DJs Villa Diamante, Nim and El G throw a weekly party known as Zizek. Named after the insanely brilliant, or perhaps just brilliantly insane, Slovenian philosopher-psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek (the connection has something to do with his marriage to an Argentine model), their weekly fiesta focuses on the cutting edge of digital cumbia along with other tropical and urban delights. Launched in 2006, the party's success begat...
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