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World Circuit
World Circuit Records have established their reputation by producing some of the finest world music albums of the past two decades, specialising in music from Cuba and West Africa. The label is best known for the GRAMMY winning Buena Vista Social Club album, which is the biggest selling world music album of all time, and led to the phenomenal rise in popularity of Cuban music. The Buena Vista series continues with solo albums from the GRAMMY winning Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Rubén González, Guajiro Mirabal, and the innovative albums from CachaÃto López and Angá DÃaz, which take Cuban music into the new millennium and beyond. Ten years after the legendary New York concert World Circuit release Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall in October 2008. World Circuit’s African artists enjoy equal prestige, with Malian bluesman Ali Farka Touré’s GRAMMY winning Talking Timbuktu album recorded with Ry Cooder being the album that brought the label international acclaim. Malian diva Oumou Sangare, the legendary Orchestra Baobab and musical maverick Cheikh Lô from Senegal have emerged as major stars at home in Africa and around the globe. World Circuit’s acclaimed Hotel Mandé Sessions has generated incredible critical praise, the trilogy comprises of the GRAMMY winning duets album from Ali Farka Touré and kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté, Toumani’s pan-African Symmetric Orchestra, and Ali’s final posthumous solo recording ‘Savane’. With these albums World Circuit continue to set the standard with their beautifully produced and packaged albums of the highest quality
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Made in Dakar Orchestra Baobab
Format: CD
18/12/2008
Five years on from the best-selling `Specialist in All Styles', Orchestra Baobab return with `Made in Dakar', an album that celebrates the band's root… -
The Mande Variations Toumani Diabate
Format: CD
18/12/2008
'The Mandé Variations' is the highly anticipated solo album from Africa's most brilliant instrumentalist and king of the kora, Toumani Diabaté. A pa… -
Silvershine Andy Hamilton &…
Format: CD
18/12/2008
Originally released by World Circuit in 1991, 'Silvershine' has been made available again to celebrate the occasion of Andy's 90th birthday and in rec… -
Ne La Thiass Cheikh Lo
Format: CD
18/12/2008
If Youssou N'Dour represents the sophisticated urban edge of Senegal, electric and energetic, then Cheikh Lô is the more organic, spiritual side. Né… -
Las Estrellas de Areito Various Artists
Format: CD
18/12/2008
Call it the original Buena Vista Social Club. Back in 1979 a crew of Cuba's best musicians got together in Egrem Studios in Havana and recorded epic s… -
Distinto Diferente Afro-Cuban All Stars
Format: CD
18/12/2008
With a debut as smashing as their 1997A Toda Cuba le Gusta, the Afro Cuban All Stars would have to hit on all cylinders to not fall short on their sop… -
Buena Vista Social Club Presen… Manuel "El Guaj…
Format: CD
18/12/2008
Having been an integral part of the Buena Vista Social Club series of albums and tours from their inception, trumpeter Manuel `Guajiro' Mirabal brings… -
Mi Sueno Ibrahim Ferrer
Format: CD
18/12/2008
The Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer emerged as the most popular star of the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon. Ibrahim who is pictured on the cover of th… -
Chanchullo Ruben Gonzalez
Format: CD
18/12/2008
Cuban Golden-Age keyboard great Rubin Gonzalez's new solo CD, recorded in Havana's atmospheric Egrem Studios, is considerably more laid back than his… -
Bambay Gueej Cheikh Lo
Format: CD
18/12/2008
This second offering from Senegal's majestic, Cheikh Lo was produced by Youssou N'Dour and Nick Gold at Studio Xippi in Dakar and sees Lo extend the v… -
Radio Mali Ali Farka Toure
Format: CD
18/12/2008
ALI FARKA TOURE Radio Mali - 16-track CD album of remastered selections from several earlier albums originally recorded between 1975 and 1980. -
Red & Green Ali Farka Toure
Format: CD
18/12/2008
The dual release of Ali Farka Toure's most popular and enduring albums will come as good news for fans of his music, and will hopefully spawn many mor…
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