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Many musicians would be delighted to have accomplished just a small part of what Goran Bregovic has achieved in the course of his dazzling career. A classical composer, traditional musician and rock star. He has chosen not to choose between these gifts, deciding to embrace them all, inventing a universal and universally-recognisable musical genre.

Goran Bregovic’s next album "Champagne for Gipsies" will release in 2012.

Listen to "Balkaneros" with the Gipsy Kings

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Music - Portugal

The new voice of Fado!

With his achingly beautiful voice, Antonio Zambujo has matured into a major place in the new generation of fado singers. In his last release "Outro Sentido", he deliberately walks away from the tradition in including contemporary instruments, Jazz and Bossa Nova.

New album: " GUIA " - upcoming in September 23rd 2010
World Village - Harmonia Mundi

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Music - Iran / USA

World music for the XXIe Century
In a Career which spans over a decade and includes ten collaborative and solo albums, Iranian born and Indian raised singer/composer Azam Ali has confirmed her place as being one of the most prolific, versatile, and gifted performers on the world music stage today. An international touring artist, her unique voice and genre-defying compositions have won her legions of fans worldwide as well as the respect of critics and her piers. Currently based in Montreal, Canada, Azam Ali is considered to be one of the best singers and composers in world music today.

Ali’s velvet vocals convey both sensuality and devotional ecstasy. Songlines

Ali makes music seem so effortless, so much so that it’s becoming harder and harder to distinguish between her person and the music that she creates. Another beauty from a woman fully deserving of that adjective. The Huffington Post

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A Big Band of sixteen musicians, the group thrills audiences thanks to the vocal and scenic playfulness of its riveting chorus, the “Kalypso Katz” and of its energetic singer and composer Lord Mouse. Faithful to the traditional roots of Trinidadian calypso, Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz have rejuvenated the genre to offer a boisterous sound that will have the audience up and dancing.

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Leila Haddad who dances her own choreographies both as soloist and with her company, aims above all at proving that oriental dance is a major form of art, very far from the trite cliché of cabaret dance.
She has pioneered a break with convention that has renewed oriental dance. Such revitalizing change that has been the experience of all other dance forms. In the early twentieth century, for example, Ruth Saint-Denis and Isadora Duncan liberated contemporary dance, while Antonia Merce (known as “La Argentina”) transformed flamenco.

There is nothing ethnographic in Leila Haddad’s exploration of original folk dances, as she builds bridges between past and present, and between oriental and modern, even contemporary, dance.

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Music - Syria

Created in 1983 by Julien Jâlal Eddine Weiss, french and swiss musician, and qânun virtuoso (oriental zyther), Al-Kindi Ensemble is currently rated among the best formations devoted to classical Arab music, for its rigorous work and interpreters excellence. Through its numerous creations, Al Kindi make us discover the richness of sacred and profane music repertoire from Middel East, Syria and Turkey.

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Brazil / Egypt / India / Italy

When four exceptional musicians gathered, bounded by a true complicity and a common passion: the tambourine.
Brazilian pandeiro , oriental riqq , indian kanjira or italian tamburello , this little framed drum cross all cultures, continents and traditions.
Carlo Rizzo, Paul Mindy, Ravi Prasad and Adel Shams el Din are taking us in this rythmic journey, incredibly virtuosis and rejoicing.

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Music / Kyrgyzstan

Tengir Too plays an ancient music rooted in the sensibility of nomads kyrgyz. Keepers of tradition and nevertheless true innovators, they present an original repertoire made of compositions and arrangements for traditionnal instruments, mixing the specific bardic vocal art to the extraordinary epic recitation of Manas.

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