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On the occasion of the great Philippine exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, Cezame released the Philippine album. The gamelan bamboo plays alongside sets of strings straight from the Spanish colonization era. Catchy, waltzes, polkas and other almost forgotten songs.
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An exhibition for the ear of an extraordinary cultural and ethnic diversity, The Indian Ocean is a testament to the admixture of African, French and Tamil traditions. Imade Saputra sails us through balmy seas of the Seychelles, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues and Mayotte.
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Steeped in influences as culturally remote as the music of Laos and American country, the Thai musical heritage has retained a special place in far eastern culture thanks to its unique instrumental timbres employed in a vibrant musical culture thriving still today.
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Performing Animals / On The Wing / By The Waterside / Farmyard Animals / Antennae & Mandibles / Savannah & Forest / Fauna Of The Americas /
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As the frenzy of the Olympic Games subsides and China's economic boom marches on, we have focussed on the ancestral aspects of a great civilization, the daily-life of its people, their traditions and their culture. Imade Saputra has come back with magnificent recordings made across the length and breadth of this great country still so foreign to us and from which we have so much to learn.
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Geopolitical Asia (CEV 3025) follows Geopolitical Brazil (CEZ 4076) in our new series of virtual releases. Why « geopolitical » ? Because in the frenetic reality of a global economy, each day brings us nearer to an Asia in a state of profound flux. Its musical expression is here represented by a fascinating hybrid of electronic innovation and still vital acoustic traditions.
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Japan, The Empire of Contrasts
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The kingdom of Camdodia, a monarchy rethroned, the immense redolence of the Khmer empire. A culture as diverse as the 2O0 faces of the temple at Angkor Thom,as exotic as the 7-headed cobra. But a music srangely familiar to the western ear.
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An introduction to the many facets of Papuan culture and the myriad dialects in which it is expressed: voices singing, chanting, crying, cajoling and protesting underpinned by percussion now soothing, now disturbing. This album brings us ancestral Papuan tradition in all its richness of expression and sonic diversity.
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Traditional choirs, percussion groups. From the serious to the light-hearted and unashamedly popular. Music which tells of the trials and tribulations, the hopes and fears of a people in permanent confrontation with its own history.
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Music secular and devotional from the far reaches of time. Unfathomable ancestral throat singing, mysteries of the sacred bowls, pure authenticity of an unblemished tradition.
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Eastern and western, so distant yet so near, this Nepalese music delights the senses and transports us to the well-spring of twin musical cultures.
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A nation wakes/ Meditation/ Ancestral wisdom. An enchanting mosaïc of a thousand pieces. This new album is inspired by the music of India and the vast wealth of its traditons.