If I Had $1000000 - Barenaked Ladies (Canada)
Often abbreviated BNL, Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan and Steven Page. Page left the band amicably in February 2009 to pursue solo projects. March 7th 2009 saw their first show on stage as a foursome in Orlando Florida. Tyler Stewart's drum kit was proudly emblazoned with a "Fantastic 4" logo. In March 2010 they released All In Good Time, their first post-Page studio album.
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Duelling Banjos - The Deer Lick Holler Boys
The Deer Lick Holler Boys are purveyors of fine traditional bluegrass...they are also known as Hayseed Dixie...or even The Kerosene Brothers. John Wheeler plays guitar and fiddle, Don Wayne Reno is on banjo and Dale Reno plays mandolin and guitar. The album '10 Bluegrass Classics' is on the Cooking Vinyl/IODA label.
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Pale Moon - Shannon McNally (USA)
Born Shannon Maureen McNally on 17 March 1973 in Hempstead, New York, Shannon McNally is an American singer-songwriter. While studying anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College, McNally began singing and playing guitar in clubs. After graduating and honing her skills on the streets of Paris as a busker, she secured a deal with Capitol Records in 1997. McNally was intent on making an acoustic record and entered the studio with studio professionals including Jim Keltner, Benmont Tench and Greg Leisz. The resulting album Jukebox Sparrows was not released at the time.
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Walk On The Wild Side (feat. Editors) - Rhythms Del Mundo (Cuba)
Rhythms del Mundo is a nonprofit collaborative album which fuses an all-star cast of Cuban musicians including Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo of the the Buena Vista Social Club with tracks from US, UK and Irish artists such as U2, Coldplay, Sting, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and many others.
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Ska Fuentes - Ondatrópica (Colombia/UK)
Colombian musician Mario Galeano, the force behind the band Frente Cumbiero "A.K.A. Quantic" and English producer Will Holland have joined forces to create the Ondatrópica project. This project which is supported by the British Council exists to explore and expand the tropical sound of Colombia in its rawest form and to marry it with the cool sound of London. The immediate result is not just a new recording, but a hot band which will have the honour of representing Colombia at the cultural *Olympiads* in *London*.
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Tumbaloflesicodelicomicoso - Celia Cruz (Cuba)
Born as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso in La Habana, Cuba on 21 October 1925 – died 16 July 2003", Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American and was one of the most successful salsa performers of the 20th century, having earned twenty-three gold albums. She was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba". In 1950, Cruz made her first major breakthrough, after the lead singer of the La Sonora Matancera, a renowned Cuban orchestra, left the group and Cruz was called to fill in.
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El Burrito - Yerba Buena (USA)
The brainchild of producer Andres Levin, New York's Latin-funk collective Yerba Buena came together as an outgrowth of Levin's extensive discography, including work as principal producer of the Red Hot Organization's Red Hot + Rio album (year-end TOP-10 in Rolling Stone, TIME & The New York Times). That critical praise was just as instant and far-reaching with Yerba Buena's 2003 Grammy-nominated debut album President Alien. The group's infectious live-band party feel changed Latin groove with an Afro-Cuban/Afrobeat/hiphop attack.
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One Note Samba - Charlie Byrd and Ken Peplowski (USA)
Charles L. Byrd (September 16, 1925 - November 30, 1999), better known as Charlie Byrd, was a famous jazz guitarist, born in Suffolk, Virginia. He was the only jazz guitarist of that era whose primary instrument was the classical guitar which gave him his uniquely identifiable sound. Byrd primarily looked up to Django Reinhardt. He moved to Washington, D.C., to study classical guitar with the renowned Sophocles Papas. He later moved to Italy where he studied with Andrés Segovia.
Ken Peplowski (born May 23, 1959) is a jazz clarinetist born in Cleveland, Ohio, known primarily for playing in the swing music idiom. He is sometimes compared to Benny Goodman in terms of tone and virtuosity. For over a decade, Peplowski recorded for Concord Records; his most recent albums have appeared on the Nagel-Heyer Records record label. In 2007 Peplowski was named jazz advisor of Oregon Festival of American Music and music director of Jazz Party at The Shedd, both in Eugene, Oregon.
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Canta Comigo - Flavia Coelho (Brazil)
Flavia Coelho is a young Brazilian singer, who's made a huge impact across Europe with her new album Bossa Muffin. As the title suggests, she draws on the traditions of the samba and the bossa nova and the melodies of the forro from north-eastern Brazil, but she and her red-hot band work in ragga and hip-hop to create a stylish yet mischievous mix that takes the new Brazil to the world.
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Na Casa Do Seu Humberto - Márcio Faraco (Brazil)
Márcio Faraco (born 1963 in Alegrete) is a Brazilian born singer, composer, producer and guitar player. After many years of living and working in Brazil, Faraco decided to leave the country for Paris, France where he has lived, with his wife, ever since. He has released six albums since living there.
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Un Bom Motivo - Funkestra (Austria)
Austrian born Stefan Redtenbacher has, over the last 10 years, established himself as the UK's "groove" bass player of choice for many artists, both live and recorded. He's worked with artists including Steve Winwood, Sam Brown, Herp Alpert and Danny Gotlieb. His own recordings feature Jazz/Funk legends Fred Wesley and Elliott Randall (Steely Dan) and he's also established himself as a producer and educator of note.
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Kisses From Paris - Cool Water (Italy)
Cool Water (real name Domenico Scuteri) is an Italian musician, composer, technician, born 5 February, 1963 in Badolato (province of Catanzaro), lives and works in Rome. In early 90's also record producer for years, opening Lemon Records (10), Wax Production & Evidence (2) co-owned with DJs and record producers Woody Bianchi and Corrado Rizza. Since many years is a most skilled and required sound engineer c/o Butter and Fish, his own recording studio in Rome, for pre&post productions, mixing and mastering.
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Sinuoso Trópico - Jacqueline Fuentes (Chile)
Jacqueline Fuentes is an intense experience, a fusion of love, awareness and revolution. Audiences are mesmerized by the power of her voice and the beauty of the lyrics that she pens herself. Raised on the romantic sounds of her father's popular radio broadcasts, Jacqueline made her debut at the age of fourteen with the National Folklore Ballet of Chile, performing solo before an audience of thousands at the prestigous Vina Del Mar festival.
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The Condor Dance - Incantation (UK)
Incantation are a musical group playing traditional tribal and other South American music. The band started in 1981 from a pool of musicians who were, at the time, playing all kinds of different types of music for the (then) Ballet Rambert, based in London. A new ballet was choreographed (called "Ghost Dances") about political oppression in South America, to the music of Inti-Illimani, the exiled Chilean folk group.
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En Frecuencia - Radio Bemba
I don't know anything about this track - except that I like it!
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Goodnight - Kermit Ruffins (USA)
Originally a founding member in the 1980's of New Orleans' popular Rebirth Brass Band, with whom he recorded seven lively albums and toured the world. Ruffins branched out on his own in the early 1990's with his own band, a more traditional New Orleans jazz combo, but has also performed with The Kermit Ruffins Big Band. His style is most reminiscent of great Nawlin's trumpeter Louis Armstrong, He regularly performs with his backing band called the Barbecue Swingers in local New Orleans clubs.
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11:11 - Rodrigo y Gabriela (Mexico)
Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero are two fast-fingered Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock and often imbued with timeless Hispano – classical influences. The fire in their music comes from their life-long passion for metal music. In spring 2006, "Rodrigo y Gabriela," beat both the Arctic Monkeys AND Johnny Cash to number one in the Irish charts. Both the artists and their third self–titled album have gone on to enjoy international success since its initial release in early 2006.
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Flor De Huevo - Los Lobos (Mexico/USA)
Los Lobos is a mexican-american rock band from East Los Angeles, California, USA, heavily influenced by rock and roll, tex-mex, country music, folk, blues, and traditional Spanish / Mexican music such as boleros and norteño. Vocalist/guitarist David Hidalgo and drummer Louie Pérez met at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, and bonded over their mutual affinity for obscure musical acts such as Fairport Convention, Randy Newman and Ry Cooder. Pérez recalls, "We're looking at each other, 'You like this stuff? I thought I was the only weird one.
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Hand It Over - Keb Mo' (USA)
Keb' Mo' (born October 3, 1951 in South Los Angeles, California as Kevin Moore) is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He first started recording in the early 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach. Creach hired him when Moore was just twenty-one years old; Moore appeared on four of Creach's albums. He was further immersed in the blues with his long stint in the Whodunit Band, headed by Bobby "Blue" Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Collins and Big Joe Turner.
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Alphabet Aerobics (The Cut Chemist 2 1/2 Minute Workout) - Blackalicious (USA)
Gift Of Gab (Tim Parker) and Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) met at John F. Kennedy High School in 1987 in Sacramento, California and formed the group in early 1992. They released their first recording, "Swan Lake", on Solesides records. The Solesides Crew consisted of the duo, as well as other friends of theirs they had met at University of California - Davis, including DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef The Truth Speaker. The single was an underground hit, but label trouble prevented the duo from immediately capitalising on their fame.
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