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Artist:	GIA DINH «BA PHO»
Title:	Quê Huong (Homeland)
Label:	DUNYA RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	FY 8107CD

Subtitled: "Country Music from Vietnam". "Marking an important new addition to the part of our catalog focusing on sounds from the Far East is a CD dedicated to the music of Vietnam, a country that though having lived for centuries under the yoke of colonialism, has managed not only to preserve, but to continually enrich its musical heritage, creatively incorporating foreign influences. Instruments employed by the ensemble include the over 3000 year-old dan da, a kind of stone xylophone of which there are fewer than twenty surviving examples, to the dan rung (bamboo xylophone); from the giay (a 36-string zither) to the bau (a one string instrument requiring a special playing technique) to the trong ( multi-drum membraphone) to the dan moi (a type of metal idiophone); from the loong no (bamboo aerophone) to the huan (vertical flute)."

Artist:	GNAWA BAMBARA
Title:	Sidi Mimoun
Label:	DUNYA RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	FY 8116CD

"Partly recorded in the studio and partly a live recording, Sidi Mimoun features a number of tracks chosen from Gnawa Bambara's vast repertoire and provides an opportunity for an authentic musical encounter with one of the most interesting and culturally and spiritually fertile North African traditions. Hailing from Casablanca, the Gnawa Bambara are one of the most important and esteemed brotherhoods in Morocco. Descended from black slaves from sub-Saharan West African countries such as Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Guinea, they continue to perpetuate an ancient, deeply rooted tradition born from the union of their ancestral practices with Islam's most esoteric branch, Sufism. Founded on music and dance their rites and liturgy have what might be called therapeutic aims, serving to reintegrate and rebalance the human body's fundamental energies while at the same time reconciling and allying them with the spirits of possession through ascension to a plane of mystical ecstasy!"

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