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Welcome To Popular Music
From Around The World
Don't worry, if you won't find you
favourite song yet. This is just a beginning and a not yet perfect
listing. About 50 albums from the past - a point for discussion.
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Start to collect Pop Mundial now -
an example of the "Variety of
Music", we aim to provide. We are seeking to gather together
popular music from around the world. We promote quality music
from all walks of life, the popular music of all time - not necessarily
the charts successes. We select from thousands of albums and
tracks the ones that we feel will have the most impact in general
and on you. As we do this from around the world we call it the
pop mundial. |
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Music Heritage:(Recommended) Albums of the
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For all that you think might
be missing here turn to our  (myspace) |
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2007
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In March 2007 former musical legend
of Radio Tarifa (Spain) released his first solo album.
Over the past decade, there have
been all manners of Moorish influenced Spanish mixes, ranging
from Sefardi-Andalusian folk fusions to Latin-Arabian nightclub
beats. But the real pioneers were Radio Tarifa.
Fronting this magical, edgy experiment
was Benjamin Escoriza, a Granada-born, Madrid-tutored free spirit
whose smoky, pained voice laced all the songs with a hint of
danger and despair.
"Though Alevanta!"
is his solo debut, Escoriza ropes in his old friends, including
Tarifa co-founder Vincent Molino and producer Juan Alberto Arteche.
The result is a familiar sound, but with a rawer, more "unplugged"
feeling. On Tangos Del Vecino and Paquita La Guapa, Escoriza
takes us round his native Granada, telling us stories of loss
and yearning. The humour is still there, as well as the energy
- El Ratón is given a mesmerising Moroccan mix - but the
overall acoustic, flamenco feel of the album gives it a personal
stamp you just never get with bands. GREAT ! |
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Anything new, Dame Shirley Bassey,
Mrs. "Goldfinger" ? Yes, she returns with her first
album for almost 10 years which celebrates her 70th year. "Get
The Party Started", yes - a Pink pop classic, not only lends
the album its title but also gets a stuning Bassey treatment.
The album are all new recordings and remixes by today's most
contemporary producers.
It's absolutely fabulous! GREAT |
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"Moonshout"
(above) is the seventh album from the influential collective
who established 'world beat'- fusing dance, ambient and ethnic
music, ignoring any notions of musical barriers.
Transglobal Underground a must to have ! |
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more hopefulls soon t.b.a. or to be successful in 2007 |
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"Begin The Beguine" (above
is the long awaited comeback by French singer Victor Lazlo. She,
who got her name of the film Casablance, had a world hit with
"Sweet Soft and Lazy" in 1985. The new album, i.e.
the ballads are GREAT |
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2006
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"Rise" (last row, from the left) by Anoushka Shankar
marks a defining moment in the career of a young woman whose
surname is synonymous with Indian music. Having previously recorded
strictly in the classical tradition of her father, the legendary
Ravi Shankar, Anoushka truly emerges as a potent creative force
with her newest release. GREAT. * "Lunatico" by Gotan
Project is the first studio album since their 2001 debut "La
Revancha Del Tango" introduing the bands skillful blend
of tango and electronica to the world. * Sara Tavares', an Afro-Portugese
singer-songwriter grew up as part of the Cape Verdean immigrant
community in Lisbon and this vibrant mix of cultures, which has
resulted in the sounds of latest album, "Balance. GREAT |
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2001
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2000
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1998
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1993
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1992
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1990
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1983
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 Pat
Metheny's "Offramp" recorded 1981 and release in 1983
in N.Y.C, files in the jazz catalogue (ECM 817138-2) by German
independent label ECM in Munich. Soft and relaxing improvisations
by guitarist Pat Metheny almost pre-succeed what later has been
titled chill out music. Still it remains spontaneous music, a
blend of experimental guitar improvisations and ballads. If you
new to jazz or Pat Metheny and rather would not take the risk,
we recommend the sampler "WORKS". This includes all
the beautiful ballads of "Offramp" and another favourite
ballad of our's "Travels"; but sampler in general won't
classify for our World Music Heritage CD section, but you will
find the track itself in our track list. |
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1971
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1969
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On July 15th 1965 "Non Stop Dancing"
by The James Last Orchestra
entered the top 40 of the sales charts and stayed for as
many as 60 weeks, along with albums such as "Beatles For
Sale" and "Rolling Stones No.2".
It was the time The Beatles and The Rolling
Stones had conquered  what was
before a modest and quiet music market, bringing about a revolution
in youth culture. Their music stood for a mind-boggling change
in society, a new way of life that was utterly rejected by the
older generations as being a symbol of declining moral values
and lacking responsibilities. The gap between young and old had
hardly ever been more divided before. Preciously in this moment,
a well-groomed young man in his mid thirties turned up to rearrange
the hits of those longhaired "troublemakers", making
their unfamiliar tunes somewhat more tangible, even danceable.
In the first 5 years of his career he released
about 40 albums, roughly two thirds of which reached Gold status.
One album stands out in particular from that set of productions:
James Last's version of the musical "Hair" (1969).
For the pretty bourgeois, a ticket to see revolutionary stage
production of "Hair" equalled a ride to Sodom and Gomorrha,
since it overtly treated subjects likes conscientious objection
to military service and free sexuality. Hansi, a well-established
star of the bourgeoisie, had one comment: "Hair is great
- let's do it!"
Instead of arranging it in the "Non
Stop Dancing" - manner, he looked for new sounds, experimenting
with tape recorders running backwards, putting glass bottles
of microphones (remember, we still haven't entered the computerised
age!) or alienating the brass, varying rhythms and tempi. With
his arrangements virtually he created the musical anew - "Hair"
can be considered to be one of the best productions of first
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1961
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1938
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