Former partner of Fred Frith, Michael Mantler and Carla Bley, John Greaves passes without transition from a tribute to Marcel Duchamp to pop song via Irish and brass-band compositions and much more. Features "Solitary," "The World Tonight," "Deck Of The Moon," "Old Antiquity," "Rose c'est La Vie," "Lullaby" and others.

In the spirit of the french mainstream audience, accordion and violoncello belong to two different social class, distinct and far from each other.Throughout this whole disc we have the ambition to demonstrate that that these two instruments are as noble as the other.and that by combining them they get richer and the creativity of the compositions the most universal it can be. It also prooves that blues is a unique musical langage and that its contents doesn't only come from Harlem. Paris Je t'aime...

Using modern-day rhythms issued from various genres - funk, rap or polyrhythmics. An album very much in keeping with today's trends.

With this volume # 26, Michel Onfray deals with French philosophers Vladimir Jankelevitch and the post-may 1968 philosophy. A 13 CDs box set by Michel Onfray. In French. This is the last volume of the Counter History of Philosophy by famous French philosopher Michel Onfray - with 1 000 000 records sold until today!

(2-CD set) There was a moment when the French really thought they were going to love each other. Jean RENOIR, referring to the Popular Front. -

On this release, the Red Army Choir sings traditional and orthodox Christmas songs. Even when singing such familiar music, the precision of the ensemble's sound reveals the full mastery of the choir's vocal skills. Combined with a unique feeling for these carols' arrangements, these performances remind the listener exactly why the Red Army Choir was one of the great artistic symbols of the Soviet era.

Hahoe Pyolshin-gut T’al-Nori is one of Korea’s most traditional folk plays. Until 1928 the shaman ritual had been performed at intervals of three, five or sometimes ten years, depending on the revelation of the local goddess. It was said that if you did not have a chance to watch the mask dance performed in your lifetime, you could not go to heaven. Susie Jung-hee Jouffa and Francois Jouffa have recorded in Hahoe the actors, dancers and musicians of this show. Kyongju, the ancient capital of the millennium kingdom of Shilla has a unique tradition of female vocals and percussions. Two performances have been recorded there, in front of Lake Pomun, at nightfall. Patrick FReMEAUX

With this volume # 17, Michel Onfray continues if focus speach on the followers of Freud, especially Wilhelm Reich and Otto Gross. A 13 CDs box set by Michel Onfray. In French. A Counter History of Philosophy by famous French philosopher Michel Onfray - with 750 000 records sold until today! "A parallel history of thinking, that rehabilitates the hedonist and materialist tradition, that resuscitates the gnostics, libertines, baroques, dyonisiac socialists, free spirits and other visionaries..." Robert Maggiori, Liberation

The Victory Concert by the 17-piece Claude Bolling Big Band is a re-creation of the mussic of D-Day. Pianit Bolling's French ensemble sound like Glenn Miller and features dislinguished soloisis. World-Herald Tribune.

(Booklet in English) Monkeys communicate using their most developed senses: mainly sight and hearing, secondarily smell and touch. Visibility is reduced in tropical and equatorial forests where monkeys use sound, the only way of communicating over large distances. The CD includes more than an hour of recordings made while tracking monkeys in the forests of Gabon, Cameroon and Zaire, in difficult conditions, often without the animals awareness of the recorder's presence.

The rhythms and music of the world have aroused my curiosity for many years and have allowed me to color my musical universe with borrowed jazz, popular, and other music. With the poetry and talent of Heloise Lefbvre and Crestiano Toucas, the project 'Elbasan' is the culmination of my quest for a musical melting pot, an Indo-Balkano-Hispanic melting pot that will speak to the Slavic soul. (Thierry Vaillot) Guitarist and composer Thierry Vaillot produces music that is stunningly rich, conjugating Iberian rhythms and Indian ragas with the exhilarating spirit of the Balkans. Together with violinist Helo�se Lefevre and accordionist Crestiano Toucas, Thierry Vaillot and his Trio Elbasan reinvent the imaginary folk music of the "Total-world" in a genre that follows the wind, filled with rare strength and an expressiveness that is heterogeneous and many-colored.

Marcel Zaragoza, an artist specialized in creations for the Children, presents a selection of songs relative to the different seasons of the year. In this second CD, the songs (in French) are about Summer. Recommended for children as from the age of 3 or 4.

This is a conducted and commented tour of a natural space to allow the younger generation to discover the beauties of nature in it's sound dimension. This CD presents the life of birds - eagles, parrots, robins, nightingales, owls, cuckoos, storks, blackbird, sea gulls and the bird of paradise! It presents the birds as if you were flying with them! The narration text between the animal sounds is in French.

“Further to the interest shown in the first two Accordeon Musette albums, initiated by historian Didier Roussin and which enabled the genre to enter the timeless heritage of World Music, and to the world success of the three Paris Musette albums, Fremeaux & Associes adds to the panorama with the Musette in Paris from 1944 to 1954. Specialist Dany Lallemand offers this compilation of 42 titles with a 32-page booklet featuring the best titles of the greatest Parisian accordionists.” Patrick Fremeaux

"Pingyao Ancient City is the most complete model of ancient county towns of China of the periods of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Its long history, the cultural relics and historic sites kept complete make the ancient city a historic live sample for studying the political, economic, cultural and artistic development of China. In 1997, Pingyao Ancient City was formally inscribed by UN Education Science and Cultural Organization as “World is Cultural legend”. To make people vividly experience the past splendid view Jin merchants had, and feel the social intercourse and amusement of the rich and powerful people of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Pingyao large Opera Hall was repaired to the initial condition as time demanded. Francois Jouffa’s in situ’s recordings allow us to discover the outstanding tradition of China’s purest musicians." Benjamin Goldenstein & Patrick Fremeaux