- Audio CD (31 July 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: World Music Network
- ASIN: B00004VXEJ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 218,484 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. La Vaquita - Nava |
| 2. Voy A Ganarme Tu Amor - Yolanda Rayo |
| 3. Cumbanchero - Ruben Gonzalez |
| 4. Salt - 3 Canal |
| 5. Love Thy Neighbor - Yabba You (Vivian Jackson & The Defenders) |
| 6. Antes De aAmar De Nuevo - Inti-Illimani |
| 7. El Cihualteco - Mariachi Reyes Del Aserradero |
| 8. First Cry - Sharon Burch |
| 9. Galing Galing - Mokhira |
| 10. Bhatiyalo - Jolly Mukherjee |
| 11. Jhoole Jhoole Lal (Tabla Mix) - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan |
| 12. Prayer In Bhairavi - Ali Arkbar Khan & Asha Bhosle |
| 13. Akata Sun Dunchi - Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman |
| 14. Suiheika/Nauminka/Kakumeika - Soul Flower Monoke Summit |
| 15. Mamanis - Betty Kurnia |
| 16. Pate Pate - Te Vaka |
| 17. F Troop - Archie Roach |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Rough Guide to World Music is a magnificent book, capable of infinite interpretation. So how on earth does this CD, offered as a "taster" for Volume Two, manage to be such a travesty? It's not merely that some of its allegedly famous musicians don't figure in the book, nor that it ignores great stretches of the American and Asian musical maps. Its offence is this: while the book reflects a serious attempt to grasp music in all its forms, this record settles too often for homogenised pap. We get four or five ace tracks: Ruben Gonzalez, an acceptably nifty remix of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, some lovely Christian reggae from Vivian Jackson, and a gloriously untampered-with excerpt from sarod-king Ali Akbar Khan; that Aboriginal gadfly Archie Roach's song to his dead brother may come clad in country and Western garb, but it's still a cry of personal and political pain. But we also get Bollywood schmaltz, club treatment for Uzbek singers and South Seas choirs, and soupy orchestral Navajo. Plus a bland liner note which manages to tell us the "story" of the long-exiled Chilean protest-group Inti-Illimani, without one mention of politics. --Michael Church
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A Potpourri of Pleasaure
12 Oct 2000
Format:Audio CD
Talk about diverse! This Rough Guide travels from Cuban son and the magnificent piano playing of Ruben Gonzalez to popular Indonesian songs and back again. One must have an open mind and broad tastes to be able to absorb the vastly divergent styles on this CD. However, each selection is superb on its own terms, and most of the music is danceable. If you are truly a connoisseur of world music, try this companion CD to volume two of the revised ROUGH GUIDE TO WORLD MUSIC.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great music!!
16 Jan 2007
Format:Audio CD
The Rough Guide to World Music, Vol. 2 is a wonderful compilation of songs from around the world. I am so glad I added this to my collection. I actually purchased this for a cultural diversity fair we had at our hospital and it served perfectly as background music for the event. The variety of songs is great and they are each so unique and wonderful to listen to. I thoroughly recommend it!
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8 Mar 2009
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've got other Rough Guides to World Music that I like better - only because I prefer African & South American and generally don't like eastern music.
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