The Far East may have held a fascination for western travellers for centuries, but strangely enough, the region's music has remained largely unnoticed. For the first time, the Very Best of the Far East links some of the world's most ancient and beautiful cultures and sounds with the bustling vitality and creativity of a largely urban generation. Thus Japanese producers mix Vietnamese, Indonesian or their own traditions with modern dancefloor and laid back rhythms, Okinawan music meets Brazilian beats, or indigenous Japanese music is updated into a living, breathing exciting roots sound. Elsewhere, Vietnamese musicians add jazz inflections to traditional tunes, centuries old Chinese instruments are brought storming into the 21st century with ambient, electronic sounds, while western musicians too add their input to the melting pot. This is a CD to blow away your preconceptions of Far Eastern music, that instead celebrates the diversity, yet unites the music of a region that finally comes of age, the equal of anything, anywhere on the planet. Nascente. 2005.
Very Best of the Far East,Various Artists,Nascente,World Beat Collections,World Music
New Age Music:
- Where Africa Meets the Orient
- Woman on the Mountain
- Working Out of the Western Pass
- Xo [Import]
- 12 Gatsu No Love [CD-single] [Import]
- 30 Hertz Collection
- Acusticamente II
- Aganju [CD-single] [Import]
- Air Mail Music: Bouzoukis of Greece
- Air Mail Music: Steel Bands Caraibes
New Age Music
The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favorites [Explicit Lyrics]
The World Shopping with Space Ponch
Tribute To Led Zeppelin: Stairway To Heaven [Import]