Various Artists - Music from ArgentinaA folksy take on traditional music straight out of the Argentinian songbook. Intertwining village roots, lively urban rhythms, traditional acoustic guitar, melodies of the pampas and Buenos Aires tangos, presented by Instituto El Cimarrn. Argentina's folk music has a rich and varied tradition. Apart from the indigenous music of the Fuegians and Patagonians, Mapuche and Chaco Indians, the descendants of the Quechua and Aymara and the Calchaqui Valley

Akira Ifukube writes: "The folk song

full of synthesizers and obscure instruments dating back to the 1980s

Romania and the Balkans

For Bobo is a powerhouse recording from one of the most enigmatic figures in the jazz world

enjoyable and perennial favourites of the classical repertoire

affecting ballad "As Tears Go By" and the raucous rocker "Get Off Of My Cloud

like Chubby Checker's iconic

In the course of his research at the Salzburg Mozarteum

as well as being championed at blues radio worldwide

the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich) frequents all these instrumentalists regularly

Award-winning South African musicians

The music on Journeys ranges from deeply moving to whimsical and has become associated with the ensemble during the geographic and emotional journeys they have taken