World Music

Through music we see the world. People from various countries and nations are starting to listen to each other.The share their feelings. All this is a gift of the music, that is connecting us even over long distances and despite different cultural and economic situations of each individual.
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The charismatic personality on the cover of the CD Booklet is the venerable Druwang Rinpoche, who Peeter Vähi met at the upper Hindus. This exceptional Yogi with his penetrating gaze conveys a "pure clarity". more...

The eight-hundred-years-old texts of the great Tibetan yogi and poet MILAREPA have been awakened to new life. more...

László Hortobágyi is a man of paradoxes. He has been described as a bearer of the archaic musical tradition as well as manipulator of futuristic sound worlds. The ingredients of his compositions include both ancient magic and future technologies as well as traditional knowledge and seeming fantastic visions of virtual realities. more...

L´AIR - lightness of the air, phantasy and freedom of thouhgt, brightness.

LA TERRE - hard pavement, gravitational force of the earth, reality, strain, but also hope and and break-through... more...

Drums and percussion instruments produce merry as well as mystic rhythms and trancelike conditions, now and then controlled by the European drum machines. Oduduá, the female principle of life. Dudu adopts it as the pattern for his ethnic synthesis of a global music language which incorporates Brazilian folklore and European elements, as well as clichees even, and at the same time neutralises them. more...

This CD features a cross-section of a basic type of Estonian folk-song in which the style of its performance is strongly influenced by the singer's personality and worldview. Some of the songs which have inspired KIRILE LOO are said to have been created thousands of years ago; more...

Passion for Arcadia Several journeys led this Hungarian through Asian cultural circles, and in particular to India. Impressed with the lifestyle and culture of this huge country, in 1981 he founded the "Gayan Uttejak Society" in Budapest. more...

125 years struggling for freedom The Estonian history is essentially bound to song, singing together and choir singing. One way of expressing the Estonian identity is based on the concept of a "singing nation", which in turn has united the nation for 125 years. more...

"I was primarily interested in the musical representation of the polarisation which also determines the nature of melancholy. On the one hand sadness and grief, on the other power and ecstacy. Both sides linked by an indescribable beauty within the meaning of the phrase."

MELANCONIA MIA. more...

About other instruments like the Estonian bagpipe or reed pipe please find further information in the booklet. Vibrant and magical, the runic-verse songs of Kirile Loo are as timeless as the primeval forests that blanket the Estonian landscape, and as haunting as the dreams one just barely remembers upon waking. And there is the pure, soulfully direct and totally captivating voice of this echanting artist: KIRILE LOO was born in a northern Estonian village called Varinurme. more...

In the 70ies Tri Atma was one of those first German groups to go on the musical journey between east and west. Since then the Hippie gear has been put aside and the group has been reduced to a duo. Sitar and flutes have been exchanged for keyboards and music computers, and only the tablas and guitars remain. more...

László Hortobágyi‘s music is fiction and reality at the same time. He creates musical worlds in which we can rediscover ourselves, just to forget ourselves all over again. The essence of his music is that the 20th century was not culturally influenced by the Occident, but from the Orient instead. more...

The proud, bold PARZIVAL has to endure many tests before he receives his initiation in the Grail Castle of Munsalvaesch. ROLAND KROELL is a Celtic bard and over-tone singer. His experiences of this genre are embedded in the heroic epic "Parzival". more...

The OM band was founded in 1990 by Nikolay Ivanov. At the moment OM‘s musicians include: Nikolay Ivanov - composer, acoustic and electric guitars, piano,keyboards, recorder, voice, percussion Rumen Semerdjiev - bass, keyboards, Guergui Anguelov - percussion, tabla, djembe, tupan, tarambuka, kaval, bag pipe, cuena, didgeridoo, berimbao, kuika. more...

"KA JAKEE MUSIC" is a more universal sound which uses the latest music computers complimented by acoustic guitars and tablas....all of which add up to a unique contemporary instrumental album which will appeal to a wide audience. In fact, the album contains tracks that are danceable and lively and includes their hot single track YUMMY MOON". more...

A special kind of "worldmusic-compilation". Listen and be positively surprised !
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The third CD from this Hungarian guides us into the Arabian mystic book "Fomal Hoot al-Ganoubi", both a constellation and a book that dates back to the 12th century. On one hand it is the musical translation of an ancient manuscript and at the same time music from another planet. more...

TERRA DEI is the Earth of our God. It belongs to the God who has been created by us. Therefore our Earth and its world are exactly the same as our God. This world is not the one that was originally created, it is a smashed version of it. Therefore, seen from this perspective, the most beautiful thing is destruction itself, and its art. more...

VOXs new project goes beyond any of the groups previous experiments. It is a synthesis of the central ideas and musical elements of the preceding projects: Diadema" - a transformation of Hildegard von Bingen's songs into the present, and From Spain to Spain "- a musical journey through the tradition of the Arabic-Spanish musical culture. more...

Irén Lovász sings old Hungarian folksongs, which still belong to the oral tradition. Both the texts and the melodies have survived and changed in the vernacular for centuries, without being recorded. All we know is that the oldest diatonic and psalmodic lamenting styles date back to the ancient times, when the Hungarians still lived together with their Finno-Ugric relatives in Asia around 2,000 B.C., and in the region of the Volga river before 1,000 B.C. more...

A Fusion of indian rhythms and melody structures with european music, and the improvisation techniques associated with jazz and rock - Melodious, rhythmic, occasionally meditative and magical instrumental music - concertante instrumental pop music. State of the art" music without a philosophical background for a pleasant ambiente. Music for the soul and for the body. more...

Following scientific courses, Ashim Saha began in 1970 to study classical Indian music in Calcutta. In 1977 he founded the group "Tri Atma", which became well-known all over Europe and USA through concerts and records. Madhumita and Asim Saha selected the pieces of the present album from various customs, different landscapes and a large number of festivals which are celebrated in India with joy and endurance. more...

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The Estonian keyboarder and composer Peeter Vähi takes us along a path into the exotic world of Asia, to the Siberian shamans, a overtone singer from Tuva , a Taiwanese ensemble, performs with a Turkish darbuka player, leads us to a Vietnamese woman with her bamboo xylophone, to a woman flautist and a singer from Cambodia who masters a unique performance technique. more...

Nobody "over there" is interested in them, here they are becoming a trend. Pop music from the "New Moscow" + a synthesis of the American pop art of the 70´s and the post-Soviet cultural life of the 90´s more...

The Artist LÁSZLÓ HORTOBÁGYI is interested in expeditions. Music is his medium for travelling through time. He was born in 1950 in Budapest, a city which has remained his home base. He took his first trips in 1967 to North India to record music, to pursue philosophical studies and to learn rudra-vina, sitar, surbahar and tabla. more...

From a very early age Elka was acquainted with Bulgarian folk music through her father, one of the best known players of the gadulka (fiddle). She grew up among many types of instruments, and a little later concentrated on the violin, becoming shortly afterwards a prize-winning child prodigy. more...

Numerous visions, adventures and miracles were experienced by Middle Ages pilgrims on the "Camino de Santiago", the path to the grave of Saint Jacob. Many of these miracles were recorded in the earliest Spanish songs, the "Cantigas de Santa Maria", in the 13th century. Christian an Moorish cultures meet each other in these songs, which tell of mysterious happenings in actual places on the road to Santiago. more...

The name of the composer and producer HECTOR ZAZOU, Paris, is usually associated with records like "Geologies", "Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses", "Sahara Blue" and with names like John Cale, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jon Hassel and Bill Laswell. more...