Poetry Chaikhana
Sacred Poetry from Around the World
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Benjy Wertheimer Soul of the Esraj |
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Jayme Stone |
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Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko Juno Award winning banjoist Jayme Stone and Malian singer and kora player, Mansa Sissoko, build a boundary-crossing musical bridge from Africa to Appalachia on their groundbreaking new album. |
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The Sufi Choir Music of prayer and ecstasy from the legacy of Murshid Sam Lewis that flowed through the San Francisco sufi community in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Sufi Moon Spiritual Pakistani Qawwali from the Sufi Shrines meets archaic Swiss jazzy alphorns around the many spheres and territories of the Moon. |
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Riffat Sultana Riffat Sultana Channels the musical wisdom of 500 years and eleven generations of master musicians from India and Pakistan, bringing a spectacular voice and talent to the world stage-Banning Eyre-Afropop |
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Swiss Indian Orchestra Stunning Flute-Melodies, Heartbreaking Tabla-Beats, inspiring E-Sitar Strums: The Swiss Indian Orchestra plays pieces inspired by the North Indian Music. If Ravi Shankar would have been born in Switzerland, this is probably what it would sound like. |
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Taffetas West African World Music, A beautiful blend of driving Kora rhythms with acoustic guitar & double bass, acoustic, warm voices of Fatoumata Dembélé and Nana Cissokho |
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Tandava "A gorgeous disc featuring polyphonic marimba, tabla, erhu [chinese violin], bamboo flutes, guitar, various vocal traditions..It's all here; For those who have been looking for a succinct description for "world music", this is it.- World Music Central |
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Katy Taylor Combining her classically-trained, pure voice with a deeply spiritual, medieval and celtic sensibility, this artist weaves celtic ornamentation with haunting, mystical chant and prayers, and reminding us of our connection to the earth, to the Divine. |
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Ustad Ahmedjan Thirakwa "Thirakwa-Bombay 1964" is a unique one hour tabla solo in Teen Tal (16 beat rhythm cycle) by Ustad Ahmedjan Thirakwa, one of India's greatest percussionists who's career spanned seven decades, recorded before a live audience of avid listeners. |
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Time for Three Multi Genre Power Trio |
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Toronto Tabla Ensemble Second Palla features the rhythmic system of North Indian tabla drumming to create an excting, evocatve new voice in music. |
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John Trudell Spoken word that weaves from Native to rock to middle eastern-twinged, with traditional vocals underlying John's intense, forthright message. |
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Vaihi A fresh view on traditional Hawaiian music, vocally strong, with a backyard feel. Truly an album to bring you to the islands of Hawaii. |
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Various The World Festival of Sacred Music is a musical and artistic vessel, created in kindness, to honor diversity and inspire an appreciation of the interdependence of the Planet and all her many beings. |
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Various A musical and artistic vessel, created in kindness, to honor diversity and inspire an appreciation of the interdependence of the Planet and all her many beings. The festival was the idea of His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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Various Artists Creme de la creme from the new generation of Pan-African artists & musicians. |
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Various Artists The Heart of Percussion' surveys the label's main focus: percussion music. Starting with Aja Addy and Mustapha Tettey Addy, the famous masterdrummers from Ghana, continuing with trance specialist Dudu Tucci from Brazil |
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Vedvik/Tillman Eclectic ambient music with elements of world, exotic electronica and a classical chamber feel. Featured in films like "Ali" |
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Voices of Eden - Eliana Gilad Wordless vocals, soothing percussion, harp and violin. The healing use of voice and rhythm by women is a 3,000 year old tradition. From the beginning of time, infants have been soothed by the soft, crooning quality of the human voice. Both babies and adults are reassured and calmed by rhythmic, repetitive sounds that remind them of things they heard in the womb |
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Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2009 by Ivan M. Granger.
All other material is copyrighted by the respective authors, translators and/or
publishers.
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