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Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad

Soul of the Sufi

Qawwali group led by two great singers from Pakistan. Fully energetic live album from a concert in Warsaw. Experience the energy captured in this live concert album, which carried the audience to another dimension.

World: Asian- North

Tuomas Rounakari

Shamanviolin

Authentic shaman songs from Siberia recreated for violin, voice and stomping.

World: Asian- North

DaiQing Tana

Silent Sky

Ethereal voices connect the heaven and the earth.

World: Asian- North

Namgar

Nomad

Right in the city center, you turn around the corner and see a yurt in the midst of grassland under the bottomless blue sky, with spirit voices of mountains and forests haunting you.

World: Asian- North

Ala-Tan-Chi-Chi-Ge, Zha-Ge-Da-Su-Rong

The Mongolian Folk Long Song

2005 A UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

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Altan Uul

Echoes Of Eight Centuries

The hidden passion within the horse-head fiddle.

World: Asian- North

Efenstor

Myths

Shamanic symphonic folk metal/new age from the Central Siberia

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KlezFactor

The Golem of Bathurst Manor

A blend of klezmer (Eastern European Jewish Instrumental folk music), jazz and rock, featuring catchy tunes, groovin' beats and some of Toronto's best up-and-coming musicians.

World: Asian- North

Kalinka

Somewhere My Love: Russian Gems

Balalaika and Bayan (accordian) World Music Grammy contender. Favorite Russian Music by the popular duo, Kalinka, who will charm your heart with beautiful old world instrumental melodies and songs. Kalinka is as tasty as the bright red berry it is named a

World: Asian- North

Gypsophilia

Crazy Move the Belt

Danceable, memorable, with unique melodies and rhythms you'll want to return to again and again. Melodies from the world over, in true gypsy style.

World: Asian- North

Top Albums

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J.M. Nasim – The Psychedelic Jew's Harp

Reality Substrate

Primal pulse, ancient vibration and soulful song converge for a totally live, electro-acoustic, psychedelic groove.

As an ancient shamanic instrument, the Jew's Harp continues to be used for healing by the peoples of Mongolia and Siberia. Groundbreaking hypnotist Dr. Franz Mesmer incorporated the instrument into his early psychotherapy experiments. The Jew's Harp's power as a courtship instrument from Bavaria to the Philippines alludes to a potent psychosexual association. Compare the erotic shape of the Jew's Harp to that of the Shiva Lingam, India's sacred spiritual symbol for the Creative Principle. My Psychedelic Jew's Harp journey begins by marrying the rival demands of singing with simultaneous melodic twanging. This challenging innovation fuses with sophisticated electronics to realize the music of The Psychedelic Jew's Harp. I create this music live. No multi-tracking, no playback of pre-recorded material, no sampling. The raw signal of voice and Jew's Harp feeds into a portable bank of automated processors. Here, various programmatic, architectonic sound spaces frame rhythmic zones within which certain acoustic potentialities reside. These sonic holograms manifest my musical explorations as shape-shifted sound. Seminal acoustics are gestated into new aural forms to birth multi- dimensional soundscapes of interpenetrating pulses and harmonics. As many may know, "psychedelic" means mind manifesting. The Psychedelic Jew's Harp project appeared as a vision several years ago and continues to serve my life as a navigator and teacher. My wish would be that this music manifest inspiration in the mind and heart of the listener.

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