Contemporary World Music

I am pleased to announce another new streaming music collection has gone live -- Contemporary World Music.

 

Contemporary World Music contains 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent.  The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.  A complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world.  The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. 

 

Many of the titles are encyclopedic in their breadth of coverage.  For example, The Voice of the People from the Topic label, a 20-volume series of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh traditional music, will be here in its entirety, as will be the Passage to India Series from Navras.

 

The first release includes 446 albums -- over 6000 tracks from many labels, including: Topic, Playasound, Budamusique, Air Mail Music, Manuiti, Crossing Records, and Lyrichord World Music.  Bela Lakatos & The Gypsy Youth Project, Etran Finatawa, Daby Balde, Sukke, Nuru Kane, Don Shiva, Moussa Sissoko, Musafir, Lulendo, and Yan Kadi Faso are just a few of the artists and ensembles contributing to the collection.  Future additions include music from Blue Flame Records and World Music Network.  Sample albums include:

• Andalusian Flamenco Song & Dance
• Didgeridoo-Mania
• Folk music of Albania
• Guinée: Chants & Percussions Des Femmes Baga (Guinea: Songs and Drums of Baga women)
• Hindustani Classical Vocal: Shruti Sodolikar
• Indian World Music Fusion
• Vocal Music of Contemporary China, Vol. 1: The Han People
• Spirit of Polynesia
• Russian Balalaika Orchestra
• A Taste of Ireland: Irish Traditional Music
• Africa-New York
• Best of Yiddish, Klezmer, and Sephardic Music- The Burning Bush

 

Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database.

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