This overview of modern and traditional music from Sudan, a huge desert region just south of the Sahara, offers an interesting mix of urban studio tracks and rural field... More...

The Sudan is a place in which singers and instrumentalists are known for their very organic mixture of Middle Eastern and African elements. This is true of a contemporary Sudanese... More...

By 1981, after six years of steady recording, Chico Freeman had gained a strong reputation as a flexible reed player able to play both avant-garde and fairly straight-ahead jazz.... More...

Produced mostly by Anthony Tidd, along with some help from past collaborators Tim Motzer and Rob Yancey (all of whom have deep ties to fellow Philadelphians like King Britt and... More...

Music of the Nile: The Original African Sanctus J is the set of companion recordings to the classic African Sanctus album. In large part, these are the tracks that went into the... More...

An interesting compilation of Arabic music supporting the goals of Oxfam in the Middle East by raising money and spreading awareness. The goal is to cover the wide variety of... More...

La sal de la vida is Spanish for "the spice of life." This Madrid-based vocal trio strings together 13 songs of beautiful vocals rich in the Arabian-Iberian cultural confluence... More...

How do you write music to accompany a genocide? In a sense, this is the challenge faced by composer Graeme Revell with Darfur Now, a documentary about the humanitarian crisis in... More...

Idris Muhammad's House of the Rising Sun is a legendary soul-jazz album, and for good reason. First there's the fact that, Grady Tate notwithstanding, Idris Muhammad is easily the... More...

The once controversial Buju Banton, vilified for his anti-homosexual sentiments on his early single "Boom Bye Bye" and for his typically violent and slack dancehall, artistically... More...

Religious music, for whatever faith, often has roots that are centuries old. These madih from Nubia and the Sudan have their roots in the al-Mâhi family, which began singing them... More...

Recorded in 1953, when Syrian Sami Shawa traveled to New York, this mono reissue does show him as a master of the different styles of Arabic violin. Beginning with a very wordy... More...

Released in 1998, this assortment covers artists from Egypt and Algeria, with occasional side trips to Sudan or a previously unheard-of locale called Iran-Morocco. The roster is... More...

On this album, ARC takes advantage of their extensive catalog to put together an album of pieces from previous releases with a single theme -- women. Competing labels such as... More...

Sultry rhythms, snaky melodies, and an overall exotic allure distinguish the music of Northern Africa, and this excellent compilation finds worthy contributions from Sudan,... More...