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Buika

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Buika

Spine tingling voice that smoulders with soul and cracks with flamenco passion

Buika's music is an elated mix of flamenco, jazz, and Cuban soul, as well as her own Afro-Spanish heritage. Her throaty vocals cut deep then reach higher, testifying to her unbounded approach to her music and her life. Lauded as revolutionary in her native Spain she has moved beyond flamenco and jazz.

New collaboration with Chucho Valdes tours 2010

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Rishte

Acclaimed new collaboration between UK Asian singer Najma Ahktar and US guitarist Gary Lucas.

Rishte features a colaboration between the wonderful Ghazal singer Najma Akhtar and "The thinking man's guitar hero" (New York Times) that blends South Asian folk and classical traditions with the blues. Gary Lucas is famed for his work with Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley (with whom he wrote Grace) and Najma both as a Ghazal singer and for her ethereal work with Robert Plant / Jimmy Page

Limited availability Nov 2009 touring Spring 2010

Chambao

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Chambao

Platinum purveyors of flamenco chill who are at the technological frontier of Spain's reinvention of Flamenco.

Somewhere between the organic passion of gritty flamenco of the barrios of Andalucía and the electronica of Spanish clubland, Chambao are stadium fillers in their own country.

Please contact for availability

Nancy Vieira

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Nancy Vieira

One of the brightest new stars from The islands of Saudade; Cape Verde

A formidable new voice in the music of Cape Verde, Nancy Vieira has energy, passion, confidence and stage craft in abundance. She puts all the styles into the pot and produced a fresh accessible and exciting sound.

Album released autumn 2008

Lura

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Lura

Street wise, urban sensuality infused with the passionate root of mother Africa

Just as Mariza has breathed new life into Fado; a contemporary heir to Amalia Rodrigues, so Lura does to music made famous by Cesaria Evora. Lura is one of the most accalimed artists in UK over the past two years

New Album summer 2009, available year round live

Elzef

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Elzef

Highly energised live shows, characterised by rapid mood swings and humorous, subversive, surrealist humour

Elzef are unclassifiable; think of brass played with the punk energy of the Pogues, the quirky electronica of Matt Herbert and the burlesque of Tom Waits and you're nearly there.

Available for festivals 2009

Pedro Luis Ferrer

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Pedro Luis Ferrer

Pedro Luis Ferrer Reinvents Cuban Music: Revolutionary Songs On His Own Terms

The spirit of reinvention appears throughout Ferrer's work. He continually draws upon his country's rich musical traditions and transforms them to create new meaning.

Please contact for availability

Sergio Monroy playing piano

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Sergio Monroy

Acclaimed for his fresh and accessible fusion of flamenco and jazz

Sergio Monroy has developed a unique synthesis of flamenco and piano music, bringing an incredibly fluid and open style to the piano.

New Album summer 2009 / touring November 2009

Ferro Gaita

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Ferro Gaita

Ferro Gaita, have become the greatest musical revelation in Capeverdean music.

Think of the energy of the Bhundu Boys when they first hit Europe combined with the charismatic stage presence of The Abyssinians and you get close to the live show of one of the most exciting live bands currently out of Africa.

Available on request


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