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fRoots 26

fROOTS #26 CD
Here's what's on the FREE! CD with fR271/272 (January/February 2006)


  1. CHEIKH LO: KELLE MAGNI
    From the not difficult third album by one of Senegal's best.
  2. KIRAN AHLUWALIA: VO KUCH
    Canadian based Indian singer with an original spin on ghazal.
  3. L'HAM DE FOC: L'ESTIMAT DEL CORB
    Pan-Mediterranean music from the Catalan duo featured this very issue.
  4. LOS DE ABAJO: CUMBIA DEL CASTOR
    From Mexico, one of the world's great live bands and their best album.
  5. NUX VOMICA: JE SAIS C'EST DIFFICILE
    More from southern France with attitude: carnival ragganiçois goes Brazil N.E.
  6. THE DEMON BARBERS: THE BALLAD OF MINEPIT SHAW/IDBURY HILL
    The cracking English band in the engine room of the roadshow.
  7. FANTAZIA: L'AHBAB
    World class world music based right here in the UK, part 1 (N.Africa).
  8. SWÅP: SÅ RIDER JAG MEJ
    Tweed 'n' Carr 'n' Bäckström 'n' Normansson - Anglo-Swedish supergroup!
  9. FANIA: LA LUNE
    Another great Senegalese artist who thinks outside the box!
  10. MODESTE: KOPAKA
    World class world music based right here in the UK, part 2 (Madagascar).
  11. DUCK SOUP: THE RADSTOCK JIG
    English dance music on melodeon, marimba and bass. And why not?
  12. PANAGIOTIS KALANTZOPOULOS & SOFIA PAPAZOGLOU: NAI I OHI
    A slice from a wonderfully varied and inventive Greek album: a classic.
  13. SAMBASUNDA: RONGGENG IMUT (SMILING DANCER)
    Taking Indonesian roots and the gamelan tradition to new places.
  14. BANTU feat. AYUBA: MT. FUJI
    Nigerian fuji meets urban Germany in the 21st century.
  15. DAZIBAO: L'AFFAIRE DU PIGEON
    Young acoustic band confirming that Belgium continues to be hot!
  16. COROU DE BERRA: LA GUERRA DI PIERO
    Fine vocal group from Nice interpret the works of Italy's Fabrizio de André.
  17. ELISEO PARRA: JOTAS DE "EL CHATO"
    Innovative and unclassifiable Spanish writer with roots in all directions!
  18. SIMON RITCHIE: ANARCHY IN THE UK
    English folk classic gets updated in the new traditional way.
Full details of availability for the source CDs are to be found within the magazine.

 

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