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	Sigmatropic - Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories is a wonderful album of rich, detailed soundscapes made by Greek artist Sigmatropic as a setting for the poetry of Greek poet and Nobel Laureate, George Seferis. The album features an illustrious cast of guest vocalists such as Cat Power, Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab), Robert Wyatt, Alejandro Escovedo, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Mark Eitzel and a host of others.


	Randy Reinhart - Jesper Thilo Sextet - "For Basie" Recorded live on October 10, 2004 at Birdland Jazzclub, Hamburg, by Dieter Reichert. This sextet plays in the great tradition but levitates it with their own inventiveness, which is what Basie, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones and the others did as a matter of course. The one direct emulation of a recording - Jesper Thilo's version of Lester's magnificent solo on the Jones-Smith, Inc. Lady Be Good - is beyond criticism.


	Ten tenors - Tenorissimo! (CD)


	music from the chocolate lands - various artists (Putumayo) We’ve had some delicious coffee so a bit of sweet chocolate wouldn’t go astray. Sweet yes, but with some nice touches of dark. This latest compilation presents a nice balance between well-known world artists and not so well-known on 12 songs performed and sung in an acoustic vein. It’s a given that all these numbers are distinctive and finely crafted with diverse pulsing rhythms and melodies that reflect their origins.


	Anubian Lights - Naz bar Anubian Lights grew up in the midst of the wildest record collection known to man. Also their huge collection of vintage instruments might be responsible for the "kinetic infa-sound" of this high fidelity recording. Formerly being craftsmen in all kinds of bands, from Hawkwind, Nik Turner's Space Ritual, the Brain, Chrome, Pressurehed, Farflung, Zero Gravity and Dj Me and Dj You, the Anubian Lights members experimented on a broad range of music.


	All India Radio - Self Titled - Bonus DVD (2 CD) The 2003 album from internationally acclaimed instrumental band All India Radio includes guests Ed Kuepper, Kiernan Box (Augie March), Ashley Naylor (Even) and features the band’s trademark ambient atmospheres & street sounds, plus a bonus DVD of videos. Named Album Of The Week in Poland as well as early contender for Album Of The Year! For fans of Brian Eno, Boards Of Canada, KLF, Sigur Ros, K&D. "Turn out the lights, close your eyes and be transported to…somewhere not on this earth.“ [The Age]


	Beats meister Hamid Baroudi ...chats long distance with Martin Delcanho


	dreamland - various (Putumayo) 13 lullabies from around the globe, starting off with an entry by Angelique Kidjo accompanied by the spacey guitar wash of none other than Carlos Santana the music covers a broad cultural ambit that ranges from folksy Gaelic tales from Scotland and Canada, lovely choral music from South Africa, the soothing tones of Madagascar's Erick Manana, as well as Japan, USA, Brazil, Argentina and two from Australia (Zulya's Lullaby closes the compilation).


	the burning bush (MRA) The Burning Bush is the leading Jewish musical ensemble based in England, a septet that play guitar, clarinet, saxophone, darabukka, oud, laouto, mandolin and include the mellifluous vocals of Lucie Skeaping.


	OUT OF THIS WORLD - various (Womad) Subtitled 10 years of Womad in Australia this double CD set presents selections from 25 artists who have appeared at the Womadelaide Festival which has been held in Adelaide, South Australia since 1992.