Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. El Harba Wine - Khaled
2. Casida Del Herido Por El Agua - Lagartija Nick Y Step Murray
3. Tula Ndivile - The Manhattan Brothers
4. Siggi - El Hadj N'Diaye
5. Iraq Tasnifi - Alim Qasimov
6. Impacto Tendremos - Jimmy Bosch
7. Sempalan - Bale Seni Megasari
8. Nodi Chena Bora Dai - Baul Bishwa
9. Shetland Reels - Catriona Macdonald
10. Male Debale - Virginia Rodrigues
11. Un Jour Au Village - Sally Nyolo
12. Nadia - Nitin Sawhney
13. Fire In My Heart (excerpt) - Ghazal
14. Calusul Dance - Kalman Balogh
15. Lagala Fala Fesso - Faytinga
16. Black Is The Colour - Julie Murphy
17. Adukbe - Baka Beyond
18. Mon Mari Est Bien Malade - Barachois
19. Yere Uolo - Rokia Traore
20. Hari-Krishna: In Praise of Janmashtami (Excerpt) - Hariprasad Chaurasia

Disc 2:

1. Kanun - Djeli Moussa Diawara/Bob Brozman
2. 537 C.U.B.A - Orishas
3. Koleure - Fallou Dieng
4. Mynd I Rymni - Rag Foundation
5. Dey - Toto Bissainthe
6. Scattin' The Blues - Les Primitifs Du Futur
7. La Macorina - Susana Baca
8. Fi Wela - Fernhill
9. Night of Algeria - Mad Sheer Khan
10. Tsu der Kretshme - Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars
11. Choco's Guajira - Ruben Gonzalez
12. Muladach Is Mi Air M'aineol - Karen Matheson & Davy Spillane
13. Maqam Saba (excerpt) - Farida
14. N'dambi - Mabulu
15. Gavilan - Cheo Hurtado
16. Tulum - Selim Sesler
17. God Bless Africa - Lora Chiorah-Dye and Sukutai

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #230583 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-30
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Double CD

Amazon.co.uk Review
If Hemisphere's World 2000 was good, Songlines's global pick--in which critic Nigel Williamson attempts exactly the same task--is even better. This selection of the best tracks from the past year is geographically even-handed--it doesn't disdain the interesting things happening in Wales--and it's full of charm and surprise. It's wonderful to hear Miriam Makeba's re-released music with the Manhattan Brothers (Mandela's favourite group), which is as beguiling today as it was 50 years ago. I now want to hear more of the three-hour recording of Indian flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and his friends--their voices mingle like a flock of birds--and of the sombre-toned Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian diva who died six years ago. Where the choices are predictable, it's simply because they are transcendently good: no one could ignore Cuban keyboard wizard Ruben Gonzalez, the Azerbaijani praise-singer Alim Qasimov, or the new Malian goddess Rokia Traore. But the most heartening thing about this album is the way it celebrates indigenous traditions in their uncontaminated state: with fusion threatening to homogenise all the world's variegated musics, we desperately need magazines like Songlines to man the barricades. If you only buy one world music album this year, this luxurious double should be the one. --Michael Church

Customer Reviews

Refreshing!
A wonderfully refreshing and suprisingly modern CD. I am English and found a few tracks quite hard work, but by the third listen I had absorbed the different beats. With familiarity came appreciation. A great CD.

a superb selection
I must say, I'm not much of a world music officianado. This was the first 'world music' CD I bought, yet it is still the only one a still really listen to. I would say this contains a couple of my favourite songs of all time. The selection is fantastic as well - really varied in style. Many world music CDs are rubbish. This to me is the best of the best. Also, it's not dated 'traditional music' or 'world music' for tourists - just selling because it's unusual. This music is just superb and I'm currently searching for the albums for some of the artists.