2016 album from the Grammy-nominated superstar. Sensuous Chill is inspired by a myriad of international sounds and flavors with a groundbreaking new sonic approach. The album once again sees the visionary musician exploring new realms of sound and creativity inspired by his seeming infinite world travels. Tracks like the ecstatically rhythmic "Desert Soul" and the bhangra-spiced "Dance For Me" are among the most physically stimulating of the composer's remarkable canon, offering a new sonic perspective on his adventures and experiences amidst myriad aspects of global culture. Yanni is truly a global artist - a multiple Grammy Award-nominated composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and performer whose extraordinary body of work has both pioneered contemporary instrumental music and re-imagined the live concert-going experience. Since making his solo debut with 1984s Optimystique, Yanni has seen no less than 15 albums reach #1 on the Billboard's Top New Age Album Chart, more than any other artist ever, and has amassed over 35 platinum and gold records throughout his career.

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Oleg takes the music in exciting new directions while still retaining that Russian Gypsy magic... nothing less than incandescent virtuosity for the duration of the show..." - The Scotsman This recording includes the Lautary piece featured in the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Pure thoroughbred Egyptian dance music by Hossam Ramzy with a gathering of the best musicians of Cairo's Mohammed Ali Street, the music is re-mastered and partly shortened to better suit today's oriental dancers.

A unique and lively album, this recording includes all of the Scottish Police Pip Band-Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary Pipe Band, Grampian Police Pipe Band, Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band, Tayside Police Pipe Band and the world champion Strathclyde Police Pipe Band. Insert includes history of each of the bands.

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Martti Pokela, Eeva-Leena Sariola and Matti Kontio are among the foremost players of the Finnish kantele, a folk instrument of the psaltery type. Almost nothing is known about early Kantele repertory, beyond a probable narrow melodic range. In more modern times the kantele has become a box-shaped instrument of 12 to 46 strings fastened to wood or iron wrest pins, tuned diatonically and encompassing 3-4 octaves. "The Art of the Finnish Kantele" presents 17 kantele pieces, both traditional melodies and new compositions. Played on 5, 9-and 36-string kanteles and the jouhikko (bowed lyre)

This collection of Celtic music from Brittany features the most famous artist from the region: Dan Ar Braz, Tonnerre de Brest, Yvon Etienne, Pierrick Lemou, Bleizi Ruz, Le Bagad Du Moulin Vert, Gwendal and many more. The lively and varied album includes traditional instruments such as biniou, bombarde and harp alongside modern guitars, keyboards and drums.

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A gorgeous Fado album, sung by Rodrigo Costa Felix, with several of his own songs as well as special collaborations and duets (with Katia Guerrero and Aline Frazao). Original Portuguese lyrics as well as English translations provided.

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Vasco Hernandez is currently one of the most promising talents of the new flamenco guitar. Originally influenced by the gypsy culture of his childhood neighborhood, he soon began experimenting with his own sound. Motivated by an intuitive creative instinct, he explores the guitar in a personal way, creating a new sound which is a true reflection of his own identity.

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The traditional Afro-Brazilian berimbau is a disarmingly simple instrument: a single steel string, a wooden bow, a resonating gourd. But on MeiaMeia, the berimbau is literally reinvented. Thanks to custom tuneable instruments expertly hand-crafted by David “Snappy” White, composers Gregory Beyer and Alexis C. Lamb and the dedicated talent of ensemble Projeto Arcomusical take the berimbau to new heights of collaboration, interplay and communication. In the spring of 2013, Beyer and Lamb began working together in an independent study under the auspices of the Undergraduate Artistry and Research Apprenticeship Program at Northern Illinois University. Lamb’s first composition for berimbau, “Descobertas por pau e pedra,” was such a success that the collaboration continued, resulting in a plan to compose an expanding chamber music cycle. MeiaMeia- which in Portuguese means “half-half” as in “six of one, a half dozen of the other” – is that cycle, a dozen pieces written in Beyer and Lamb’s rich and sophisticated language for everything from a solo instrument to a sextet.

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