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World Music

What is Distant? What is Near?

World Music is a not uncontroversial term for the rich variety of musical culture of our planet, and it comprises not only the musical traditions of the rural parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America but also those of the high cultures of the Indian subcontinent, Japan, and China as well as the popular music of urban metropolises throughout the world today.
This edition of CDs, most of which were produced in cooperation with Berlin’s House of the Cultures of the World and the Music Department of Berlin’s Ethnological Museum, mixes up the categories of “foreign” and “familiar” not only by bringing closer things that are unknown and unfamiliar but also by revealing the familiar in the foreign and the foreign in the familiar.

The encounter with the varied musical ideas that exist outside of our own culture has made us more aware of our own categories and shown us that we can no longer operate with a single compulsory aesthetic but that we must instead speak of innumerable distinctive aesthetics. This conclusion is supported both by the extraordinary recordings and the high quality of the booklet texts on the WELTMUSIK label.

World Music

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  1. Mandigo Live from Côte d'Ivoire
    Composer: Aïcha Koné
    Interpreter: Aïcha Koné
    Orchestra/ensemble: Alloco Band
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15142
    €12.00
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  3. Hasidic-Orthodox Music from the Festival of the Torah in Jerusalem
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 16282
    €17.50
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  4. Xylophone Music from Mozambique
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15132
    €12.00
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  5. Tarabu Music from the Swahili of Kenia
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15202
    €12.00
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  6. Voice of Sudan
    Composer: Muhamed El Amin
    Interpreter: Muhamed El Amin
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15232
    €12.00
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  7. Saigon: Masters of Traditional Music
    Interpreter: Vuy Chô | Quang Dung | Van Môn | Ba Tu
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15332
    €12.00
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  8. Early Recordings 1930s-1950s
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 16242
    €17.50
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  9. Rural and Urban Traditional Music from Armenia
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15052
    €12.00
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  10. Dance Music from the Countryside of Brazil
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15092
    €12.00
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  12. Songs from Ethiopia today
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15162
    €12.00
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  15. Live Music from all Continents: Africa
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15512
    €5.50
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  16. Sounds from a Santal Village (India)
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 16122
    €12.00
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  17. Editor: Artur Simon
    Interpreter: Mingyue Liang
    Media Type: CD
    Edition: CD with 80-page booklet in slipcase
    Product number: SM 17062
    €23.50
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  18. Early Recordings 1927-1948
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 16232
    Short Description: 26 rare Schellackaufnahmen aus Afrika, Lateinamerika, den USA, der Karibik und Europa zeigen die Vielfalt früher Akkordeonstile. Dabei kommt eine wilde Volksmusik zum Vorschein, wie es sie heute kaum noch gibt. Diese Aufnahme wurde mit dem "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" (Vierteljahresliste) ausgezeichnet!
    €17.50
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  19. Music of the Hamar, Southern Ethiopia
    Editor: Artur Simon
    Media Type: CD
    Edition: CD with 96-page booklet in slipcase
    Product number: SM 17072
    €23.50
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  20. Music of the Berta from the Blue Nile, Sudan
    Editor: Artur Simon
    Media Type: CD
    Edition: CD with 76-page booklet in slipcase
    Product number: SM 17082
    €23.50
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  21. Vina-Musik aus Südindien
    Media Type: 2 CDs
    Edition: 2 CDs with 128-page booklet in slipcase
    Product number: SM 17092
    €25.50
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  23. A Harmonic Experience
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 1074-50
    €12.00
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  24. Percussion
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15042
    €12.00
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  25. Musical Herolds from South India
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15072
    €12.00
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  26. Dance Music and Working Songs from Jamaica
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15122
    €12.00
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  27. The Fast Side of Dhrupad
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15172
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  29. Sundanese Music from West Java
    Interpreter: Hani Supriya | Anang Supriya
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 16072
    €17.50
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  31. Dance Music from Pará, Amazonia
    Interpreter: Verequete
    Orchestra/ensemble: Grupo Uirapuru
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15352
    €12.00
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  32. Die Musik der Beti in Kamerun
    Media Type: CD
    Edition: CD with 80-page booklet in slipcase
    Product number: SM 17112
    €23.50
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  33. Early Recordings 1911-1954
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 16262
    €17.50
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  34. Die Hood Collection - Frühe Feldaufnahmen aus Java
    Media Type: CD
    Edition: CD with 92-page booklet in slipcase
    Product number: SM 17122
    €23.50
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  35. Percussion Music from China
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15192
    €12.00
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  37. Parampara! In Memory of Gour Goswami
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15282
    €12.00
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  38. Live in Berlin
    Composer: Lotfi Bouchnak
    Interpreter: Lotfi Bouchnak
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 15322
    €12.00
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  39. Jewish-American Wedding Music from the Repertoire of Dave Tarras
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: SM 16102
    €17.50
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  40. after poems by Fuad Rifka
    Author of original text: Fuad Rifka
    Media Type: CD
    Product number: ARTS 81092
    €12.60
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