Les bardes (bakhshi, mot d'origine chinoise signifiant «érudit») du Khorâssân, province du nord-est de l'Iran, contiguë à l'Afghanistan et au Turkménistan, sont des musiciens professionnels qui chantent en s'accompagnant au luth dotâr. Après leur avoir consacré sa thèse de doctorat en ethnomusicologie, soutenue à l'université de Paris X-Nanterre en 1997 sous la direction de Jean During (Les bardes bakhshi du Khorassan iranien), Ameneh Youssefzadeh publie aujourd'hui un CD rare et documenté, fruit de sa longue fréquentation de ces bardes.

Du haut de ses 38 années de défrichage tout azimut, le numéro 3.9 des Nova Tunes ne déroge pas à la vocation de cette collection: offrir à des oreilles toujours plus exigeantes le meilleur de la playlist de Radio Nova de ces six derniers mois.Chaleur, éclectisme, surprises, détours et obsessions musicales des programmateurs de Radio Nova, toujours tournés vers les sons nouveaux, les mélodies imparables, les arrangements spectroscopiques qui font l’unicité du Grand Mix de Radio Nova.

Fouilleuse et baroudeuse par essence, Radio Nova revient d’un nouveau voyage aux cinq coins du monde avec un coffret aux trésors, Nova autour du monde.Cinq CD pour explorer les mutations musicales contemporaines, celles qui agitent la planète d’un tropique à l’autre. Bienvenue dans ce tour du monde en 80 titres !Sortie le 8 novembre en coffret CD et digital, mais aussi dans une édition vinyle limitée avec poster.

Celebrating Ocora's archives Alongside Nonesuch's Explorer series, Ocora is perhaps the most important mother lode of authentic 20th-century field recordings of world music. Part of Radio France and the brainchild of the late composer-musicologist Charles Duvelle and Pierre Schaeffer, Ocora began recording African traditional music in the 50s.

Y La Bamba has been many things, but at the heart of it is singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza’s inquisitive sense of self. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band’s affinity for spiritual contemplation, but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Coming off Ojos Del Sol, one of NPR’s Top 50 Albums of 2016, Mujeres exhibits the scope of Mendoza’s artistic voice like never before. “Soy como soy,” Mendoza says, and that declaration is the bold— even political— statement that positions Mujeres to be Y La Bamba’s most unbridled offering yet.

In 1993, Touchstone Pictures released the harrowing tale of Uruguayan rugby players and their families whose plane crashes in the Andes on their way to a match in Chile. It is a story of survival in some of the earth's harshest conditions, pushing humanity to endure the most devastating of circumstances. For Alive, composer James Newton Howard wrote a score that was to capture not only the desperate, seemingly hopeless conditions, but set the music against a background of natural beauty and tenacity of the human spirit.

Mojo presents 15 hits of psychedelic funk, black rock and cosmic slop with this belated follow-up to Mojo's 2010 Heavy Soul compilation.

Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and straddles the different worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, electronica, ambient installations and experimental rock - or as the Guardian said: "majestic bangers"…

To put it simply, The Gloomies were created out of bits of dust … an infamous chthonian hellhole that should have been wiped of the map far before it reached the listeners ear. The Southern California duo understands the importance of feeling alive amongst the darkness of broken and vivid realities that encompass the dualities of human interaction. The Gloomies' Andy Craig creates a meteoric sound that instills both the hypnotic vibe of Southern California beach days and the grungy jazz that infiltrate the streets of New York City.

An English duo with a knack for crafting pitch-perfect American country-pop in the vein of Lady Antebellum, Kacey Musgraves, and Florida Georgia Line, the Shires came into existence in 2013 after Hertfordshire guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Ben Earle, a struggling solo artist who had toured with KT Tunstall, posted "there must be a country singer somewhere" on his Facebook page. A response came from nearby Bedfordshire in the form of Crissie Rhodes, a talented vocalist who had been honing her craft at weddings, pubs, and clubs.

King Solomon Hicks grew up in Harlem "around a lot of great musicians." That certainly shows on HARLEM, an 11-song salute to those roots – and how the 24-year-old guitarist and singer has turned them into his own fierce and distinctive style over the years.

Nashville-based songwriter Gabe Lee is expertly able to detail the intricacies of everyday life and the small distinctions that leave some on the fringe and others in the mainstream.
His second album, Honky Tonk Hell, finds Gabe diving deeper into themes that aren’t far from his own life — what it meant to grow up in Nashville and what it means to be a songwriter there, how it feels to be settling into adulthood, its monotony and occasional heartbreak, and pieces of a younger time that didn’t quite work out as expected.

Vocal powerhouse Izo Fitzroy exploded on to the scene in 2017 with her debut LP 'Skyline', the album incorporating a stunning fusion of styles spanning gospel, funk and soul as Izo's raw bluesy tone and direct lyricism took centre stage. Her new album 'How The Mighty Fall' builds further on the soul foundations of her debut. Recorded between Paris, London and Sheffield, it sees her collaborating with three stellar producers and a host of talented musicians. Disco royalty - Dimitri From Paris (Glitterbox, BBE) directs fellow Parisians Cotonete on her smash single 'I Want Magic'.

Porches is my love affair with music'Music keeps me alive and I hope that by continuing to make and release it, I can make some people laugh, cry, fall in love, lose their sh*t, smile, run around, and most importantly, help them to feel alive for a brief moment.

'Recording in a foreign environment like Berlin, I was inspired to experiment with more cinematic, psychedelic sounds,' says Sam Doores, 'but my love for old-school New Orleans R&B, Memphis Soul & Rock n' Roll, Detroit Motwon & Gospel, Doo-Wop, Early Blues & Folk music will probably always bleed into whatever I do. Recording this album was an opportunity to explore the space between these worlds.'