Music joins the divide into the state of being one. One within ourselves, one with humanity, one with God and creation itself. The universal language of music conveys in a sensation an emotional response to organized sound. Musically charged emotional experiences are as real as the emotion itself, thus music is not just an art form, but a vehicle for emotional and physical experiences in harmony with being in and out of our bodies. Words convey the understanding of specific experiences. Graphic arts reflect place and time. Music encompasses all the elements of these art forms internally without subdividing the artistic senses. Music stimulates the minds eye to see visions of past experiences as well as what is not possible to physically see and inspires words of beautiful poetry as well as words never spoken. Music is a whole experience in and of itself without having to represent a tangible or an alternate reality to be understood. In order to understand this one must accept the state of being absolute. Experiencing life's realities in their whole form without dissecting the elements. In music we see beyond the optical lens and understand that for which there is no text. A reality experienced on waveforms. It is now being studied, understood and accepted by scientists worldwide that all matter as we know it is brought together by waveforms. Some auditory sensible and some not depending on the eardrum of a given life form. Atoms, cells, planets, galaxies organized and brought together by waveforms of energy.

  A Time for Us
  by Armand & Angelina
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This CD combines Armand's Pop/Rock voice and songwriting with Angelina's Classical and angelic vocals. High end production, mastering and world class studio musicians have created a masterpiece that showcases the best of A and A's 50 years combined musical experience.

Armand-musical minister, singer/songwriter, native flautist and Angelina classically trained vocalist and classical guitarist travel across the country sharing their World P'opera Overture, a fusion of classical, popular and world influences. The tour is called "A Time For Us" and its purpose is to "remind of us our oneness and help the world experience "heaven on earth".

  Far Away Land
  by Panayotis Terzakis
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Songs from a country with villages that literary hang from the sides of tall mountains and melodies from islands situated in a deep blue sea, with painted white houses sparkling in the bright yellow sun- Greece! a Far Away Land. These melodies, pieces of land and sea, offer and appreciation of authentic Greek music which contains a perfect balance between life and death, joy and despair, Eastern and Western civilizations. In what often called the crossroad between the East and the West, Greece has always been a land where the Arts were at the heart of peoples' lives. Balancing Dionysian spirit with the discipline of Christianity, what is offered us today in Greek music is a book of sounds and colors that travel back throughout the centuries and which is homogeneous yet so diverse at the same time. Songs of joy and celebration, tragic ballads and laments for those who left home. Despite the various conquerors of the country,music instead of being silenced was actually enriched and adopted new elements in such a way that Greek music is as unique as the land that gave birth to it... Panayotis

  Janus
  by Spakka Neapolis 55
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Janus is an archaic italic god represented with two faces, each looking in opposite directions. He was the double-face headed god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings and transition times. Two faces, one looking to the sunrise the other to the sunset, one to the past the other to the future. Janus: two opposite sides of the some reality. JANUS, well represents the musical path and the search of this new album which tells, so intense and personal, both the tradition and the reality of our days.

The new album can boast the participation of some very special guests like Alim Qasimov “The Master of Mugham”, the most illustrious interpreter of the traditional music of Azerbaijan, considered a living legend and one of the most beautiful voices of every time of the Middle East.

  Dancing in Tetuan
  by Joglaresa
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Joglaresa has a sound that is at once traditional and contemporary - combining elements of Middle Eastern, Spanish and North African musics - all underpinned by the Celtic and folk-revival upbringing of half the band… With oud, darabuka, bendir, guitar and cláirseach and searing vocals, they meld together a sound that is both extrovert and intimate.

Directed by Belinda Sykes, this London-based ensemble of cultural nomads, misfits and itinerants has been playing since 1990. Their performances include the Aldeburgh Festival, York Early Music Festival, London's Lufthansa Festival, the Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), St David's Hall (Cardiff), London's Barbican Centre, Sana'a & Aden (Yemen), Brezice Early Music Festival (Slovenia), Istanbul, Amsterdam International Festival of Jewish Music, Chinchilla Early Music Festival; tours in Germany, Belgium, Italy and Holland. Numerous radio broadcasts - the world over...

  Newpoli
  by Newpoli
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Newpoli is a group of exceptionally talented singers and musicians, all alumni from Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, that performs Southern Italian Folk Music, mainly from the regions of Campania and Puglia, integrating a wide variety of styles such as Tarantella-Pizzica, Tammuriata, Villanella and the Neapolitan Canzone, encompassing music from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Because Italian Folk music, with the exception of a small number of Neapolitan songs, has not received its deserved attention and recognition, either in Italy or abroad, Newpoli, guided by their passion for playing and researching these seldom played traditional styles, introduces to the audience, often for the first time, the joy and beauty of this music while recounting the ancient stories and rituals described in the lyrics.

  Terra e sale
  by GHETONIA
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Ghetonia means "neighbourhood" in old Homer's Greek, the language still spoken in the Southern Italian community where the members of the group live (Lecce's county). They all come from professional folk, jazz and classic and together have reached a so high level of maturity and awareness that the press has no doubt to state every time that Ghetonia is the best Italian folk group, at least for complexity and virtousity in playing and musical research. They usually set up a song using old poems dating up to 3,000 years ago on which compose new music; on the contrary they leave original melodies where these have been survived the centuries. It's a very fascinating voyage into time and a real re-discovering of our Greek roots that are still alive in Southern Italy. Their music could seem a little "Eastern" or "Balkanic", but it's the true old Greek music that derives from ancient times.

  Riza (CD+DVD)
  by GHETONIA
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Ghetonia means "neighbourhood" in old Homer's Greek, the language still spoken in the Southern Italian community where the members of the group live (Lecce's county). They all come from professional folk, jazz and classic and together have reached a so high level of maturity and awareness that the press has no doubt to state every time that Ghetonia is the best Italian folk group, at least for complexity and virtousity in playing and musical research. They usually set up a song using old poems dating up to 3,000 years ago on which compose new music; on the contrary they leave original melodies where these have been survived the centuries. It's a very fascinating voyage into time and a real re-discovering of our Greek roots that are still alive in Southern Italy. Their music could seem a little "Eastern" or "Balkanic", but it's the true old Greek music that derives from ancient times

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