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Fusions of world / Caribbean rhythms with the influences of jazz - enhanced by the acoustic virtuosity of Guppy on steel pans (steel drum)
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Hop onto The Baghdaddies magic carpet for an amazing musical trip traversing many corners of the earth. The Baghdaddies have been astounding audiences throughout Europe for many years with their anarchic melange of traditional European and world musical styles of all eras, throwing them together to form an infectious unique brand of music that...
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Baki da Fari was formed as a quartet in 1997 in Linköping (the 5th biggest city of Sweden) but it all started off as a duo
many years before. Sly Agouda came to Sweden in the end of the eighties from Togo in West Africa and Hasse Forsberg
was already an established musician in place when they met and pretty soon...
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Bakra Bata: Entertainment ensemble highlighting Caribbean music and steel drums under direction of Michael Shantz and available for public and private performance at festivals, parties, corporate functions and events of all sizes.
Welcome to the Bakra Bata' website, home of Bakra Bata' steel drums and dance performing ensemble, available...
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The Blue Star Story:
One evenig Elizabeth said: „What about recording some music that is exactly what we like, without thinking about if it can be sold“ That was way back in 1985, when Peter and Elizabeth started to create some music without vocals in their then still small studio.
Instrumental music with...
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Peter Buffett is a well established musician, composer and producer. Buffett began his career in the early 1980's in San Francisco where he recorded artists and was hired by ad agencies to write commercials and music logos for the newly created MTV. During that success in San Francisco, Peter signed a recording deal with Narada Records in...
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Calin's official site contains free mp3 files, discography, biography, reviews. Calin is a composer, guitarist, arranger providing music into world, electronic and surf genres.
Calin is an independent Romanian artist. His music is very original and hard to describe, but if you want a superficial classification, then you can think about...
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"Cheza" (pronounced like "ch" is choose and "ez" in fez) is a Swahili word that means "to dance, to play." Cheza's music has been described as Afro-pop, "garage-soukous", and folk-African fusion.
Cheza was formed in 1993 by singer-guitar player Paul Weber. Paul lived briefly in Senegal, west Africa where his interest in African music...
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Since 1977, COOL BREEZE™ has been on the cutting edge of World Music, playing what they call "New Orleans Tropical", an inimitable potent blend of Caribbean, Latin, and African musics with a New Orleans sensibility and lyrics primarily in English. Three of the five founding members remain with the band today, and most of the 20 current members...
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Dissidenten: A German band sometimes referred to as the "grandfathers of worldbeat". Official site features news, discography, biography, pictures, reviews, lyrics, MP3s, and links.
1981: DISSIDENTEN are founded by Uve Müllrich, Marlon Klein and Friedo Josch in Berlin, Germany.
1981/82: Following a one-year tour...
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