William Brittelle - Spiritual America - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is a compilation of artists who fuse musical exploration with spiritual awakening. It's a delicate morsel of exotica with dense textures over medium light beats, sweeping from East to West, criss-crossing boundaries, weaving together the rhythms of Algeria, Lebanon, Iran, Morocco, Israel, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris. Features Bill Laswell, Zakir Hussain, Sussan Deyhim, U-CEF, Jah Wobble & Temple of Sound, Simon Shaheen, Shahim Badar, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, Doha, Albert Scott and many others. Album Tracks 1. Pour Matoub 2. Amorphous 3. Bouhala 4. Hayati 5. Badawi Voices from the Sky (Meta Mix) 6. Hann El Amar 7. Whirling 8. Theme and Variations (The Music of Abdel Wahab) 9. Ancient Evenings

William Topley, former lead singer of the Blessing, serves up his first solo offering. Featuring 10 tracks, all co-written by Topley, the album tells tales of shipwrecked love, knives in the back and baptism in a brackish sea. Produced by legendary Muscle Shoals genius Barry Beckett, the album - like Topley's other projects - combines a variety of musical influences and his unique vocal talent to create a sound that is all his own. Targeting to AAA and AC radio. Album Tracks 1. The Ring 2. Stabroek Woman 3. Drink Called Love 4. Sink Like a Stone 5. Blackmail 6. That's My Right 7. Mannish Water 8. Black River 9. You Don't Love Me Anymore 10. (I Don't Wanna Go) Uptown

On his new album FIELD SONGS, Iowa troubadour William Elliott Whitmore documents a vanishing American landscape with all the heartfelt soul and quiet fury one could hope for. Album Tracks 1. Bury Your Burdens in the Ground 2. Field Song 3. Don't Need It 4. Everything Gets Gone 5. Let's Do Something Impossible 6. Get There from Here 7. We'll Carry on 8. Not Feeling Any Pain