Various Artists - Rough Guide To The Music Of Yunnan (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Now more than 50 years ago, Mario P. Gutierrez founded the group Los Ruphay in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. In the Quechua language of the Andean region, InchRuphayInch means InchWarmth of the SunInch. Mario P. Gutierrez lived and died with a steadfast dedication to preserve and promote Bolivian music. While his death in 1994 was a great loss for Bolivian traditional music, his legacy is upheld in Los Ruphay, who continue to record and perform into their sixth decade as a group. Mario left behind him a wealth of compositions embodying a cry of rebellion against the injustices faced by the Andean peoples over centuries. It is in this spirit that Los Ruphay this, their twentieth album. Ruphay's music carries with it a philanthropic message of hope for the Andean people. They perform to portray the realities and principles of their traditional ways, and to remind the world that they are there and are not about to disappear from history; to forge their own identity, and to break free from the shackles of colonization. It was the wish of the master, Mario P. Gutierrez, Inchthat modern man change his way of thinking and come to understand that we are star dust vibrating together in the universal soundInch.

From the classic sounds of the jug band heyday to the earthy blues straight from the Mississippi Delta, Memphis was at the very epicentre of the 1920s country blues explosion. This Rough Guide charts the city's huge influence with classic tracks by blues legends Memphis Minnie, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes and many more.01 Jed Davenport & his Beale Street Jug Band Save Me Some 02 5002 Sleepy John Estes The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair 02 5603 Memphis Minnie North Memphis Blues 02 33 04 Minnie Wallace The Old Folks Started It 02 40 05 Robert Wilkins Falling Down Blues 02 36 06 Memphis Jug Band On The Road Again 02 4707 Hattie Hart I Let My Daddy Do That 02 5908 Furry Lewis Kassie Jones - Part 1 03 03 09 Cannon's Jug Stompers Viola Lee Blues 03 07 10 Allen Shaw I Couldn't Help It 03 0311 Jack Kelly and his South Memphis Jug Band Cold Iron Bed 03 0512 Tom Dickson Happy Blues 03 0013 Frank Stokes How Long Blues 03 15 14 Carolina Peanut Boys You Got Me Rollin' 02 29 15 Gus Cannon Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home 03 0916 Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats What's The Matter With The Well? 02 3617 Pearl Dickson Little Rock Blues 03 0018 Beale Street Rounders Sitting On Top Of The World 02 4919 Noah Lewis Like I want To Be 03 0520 Beale Street Sheiks Mr. Crump Don't Like It 02 3921 Will Shade Better Leave That Stuff Alone 03 2322 Will Weldon Hitch Me To Your Buggy, And Drive Me Like A Mule 03 0023 Memphis Sheiks He's In The Jail House Now 03 1024 Vol Stevens Baby Got The Rickets 02 5325 Will Batts Country Woman 02 5726 Charley Nickerson with Jug Band Going Back To Memphis 02 22Total Playing Time 76 28

China's rich and diverse musical heritage has been recorded and documented in a stunning, original collection. With a total of twenty albums, this is a highly specialized series with the appeal of perhaps being the closest thing to the 'complete works' of traditional Chinese music. Each album features a different region of the vast territory; an historical snapshot of China's heritage. Due to the cultural privacy China mandates, these are in fact rare, musical gems. This is the concluding volume of a twenty album series, exploring China's rich and diverse musical heritage. It features banquet and hua'ersongs of the Hui; folk songs of the Manchu, featuring the Ba jiao gu (octagonal drum); dingba tunes of the Xibe, accompanied by the feite kena; lyrical songs of the Korean peoples, including songs from Arirang tune group; and sea songs of the Gin peoples accompanied by the duxianqin.