Barbatuques - BaianáRepressed in a full color sleeve. Barbatuques, a well known Brazilian group of body percussionists, adapted "Baiana" back in 2005 (first released on the "O Seguinte E Esse" album) and since then it became a staple of their concerts The original is a modern folk song from Bahia composed by Maria do Carmo Barbosa, but it was the mouth harp sound and the stomping beat on the Barbatuques' arrangement that imprinted its trademark sound. A couple of years

of DC based band Elikeh

backed by the all-star Kevin Fingier Collective

Beginning with strings and voices

Of the original

he was in the studio recording his first album

This Album Conveys A message of Peace and Communion

Steve takes us on a version excursion

This is a lush instrumental project inspired by a move to the legendary Mediterranean island of Ibiza and the album art shows a house from the north of the island that typifies its famous architecture

Although he would sing in Zulu the music was unmistakable for Shangaan Disco

Frankie Feliciano and OPOLOPO

the funk of Prince

The Owl's 'Groove Engine' steps up to the breach on the A-side