Recommended Reggae: Calypso music (#1 - #40)
CARAVAN GOGH: Caravan Gogh
Blending acoustic string styles with doses of rock, swing, funk, jazz and mysterioso,the debut CD includes energetic and beautiful original songs ranging from gypsy waltzes to all out acoustic rock, from calypso inspired dance tunes to serene soundscapes.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
LUIS MUNOZ: Vida
World/Jazz from Costa Rican composer/percussionist. ACAM AWARD ( 2006 producer/compooser of the year)
MP3 price: $18.00
AJAMU: Sunshine
Sweet soca music; refreshing and inspiring to the soul.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AJAMU: Living Water
Roots rock reggae
Recommended if you like Culture.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JULIA RICH: If I Spoke French
Glenn Miller Orchestra girl singer Julia Rich applies her velvet voice to ten standards and six originals in this tasty, up-town CD; perhaps her best yet.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
ODDS BODKIN: The Odyssey-An Epic Telling
Experience Odds Bodkin's fiery imagination in this 4 hour 4 CD as he forges together riveting narrative with more than thirty-seven character voices. Over four hours of the best in bardic storytelling scored with original music on Celtic harp and 12-strin
CD price: $49.95
CALYPSO JAZZ BAND: Calypso Limón Legends
Caribbean calypso roots with a strong jazz piano is Papaya Music's proposal in its latest release Calypso Limon Legends. International Honorary Citizen of New Orleans and successful pianist Manuel Obregón and Costa Rican calypso expert and lifelong music.
MP3 price: $14.99
CARLOS CASCANTE Y SU TUMBAO: Recuerdos
Full of life from Begining to end, singer Carlos Cascante sings salsa music, filled with elements of Timba, Jazz, Traditional Salsa and masterful solos by Grammy award nominee Paoli Mejias, Ray Vega, Thomas Marriott and Julio Jauregui.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
RICOUNET: Chansonnettes pas trop nettes
Funny sunny colored songs resounding with everyday’s life, little sentences and tranquil melodies running and waving through the head, all of a sudden coming up again alongside day. These songs are full of sweetness, tenderness ...
Recommended if you like Georges Brassens, Henri Salvador, Charles Trenet, Pierre Perret, Bob Marley & The Wailers.CD price: $14.90 / MP3 price: $11.90
DONOVAN: Beat Cafe
A heady, atmospheric and uniquely timeless blend of folk/jazz/pop/blues, seductive and magical originals from the creator of "Mellow Yellow," "Sunshine Superman," "Season of the Witch" and other classics.
CD price: $15.00
THE CABRIANS: Black Momerota
Good old Jamaican Ska. Influenced by Prince Buster and Judge Dread. They have played with Derrick Morgan, Dr. Calypso, Banda Bassotti and much more
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
MJBLUES: Sing your song
Blending the Caribbean to the Blues , Jazz and Soul
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $5.99
RICK MC INTOSH: Musical Journey
Caribbean Jazz, Latin Jazz.
Recommended if you like Monty Alexander, Michel Camilo.CD price: $12.97
ELLA ANDALL: Bring Down The Power
This collection of music is designed to bring down the power of love, of music, of rhythm and the dance with potency, authenticity and always with compassion.
CD price: $15.98 / MP3 price: $15.98
DAVID PAUL MESLER: The Balladeer
Exploratory ballads, loopy dissonance, flinty conversations, metallic birdcalls, high-speed clashes, sweet denouements. Tangos, Merengues, Calypsos, Mambos. A colorful, latin-inflected, free improv epic by acclaimed virtuoso trumpet-piano duo.
Recommended if you like Keith Jarrett, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVE RUDOLF: Beach Party
Tropical Breezes, beaches, shorelines, warm nights, cold drink in hand.not a care in the world. Take a musical cruise through Reggae, Soca, Carribean, Latin, and Calypso to name a few from Grammy nominated, Gold Record artist Dave Rudolf
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GEORGE ST. KITTS: A Lot Of Livin To Do
Jazz - Big Band glory with the best of the best
Recommended if you like Michael Bublé, Frank Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr..CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
ABE VIGODA: Kid City
Abe Vigoda is all dirty neon and angular pop; the biggest cruise party to the Bahamas with post punk violence.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
VARIOUS ARTISTES COMPILATION: Soka Titechoonz Vol.1
Brand new Fire. The Hottest Soca Compilation coming out of the Caribbean for 2006/2007. Includes Road March and Party Monarch Winner in Barbados and the undisputed Queen of soca, Alison Hinds.
Recommended if you like Alison Hinds, Machel Montano.MP3 price: $12.97
WALTER FERGUSON: Dr. Bombodee
Walter Ferguson's second disc presents a renewed face of Costa Rica's most prolific calypsonian: good humor and small disasters, typical of Caribbean life. A delicious disc for all listeners to enjoy, laugh and forget their pains for a while.
MP3 price: $14.99
GILAD HEKSELMAN: SplitLife
The winner of the 2005 Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition--stunning guitar virtuosity in a stellar trio setting.
Recommended if you like George Benson, John Scofield & Pat Metheny.CD price: $12.97
PANGAEA PERCUSSION & WINDS: Everything Spins
This global gathering of exotic drums, woodwinds and melodic percussion instruments creates a musical celebration of Earth's natural wonders and cultureal diversity... This is where the Australian didgeridoo meets the Carribean steel drum.
CD price: $14.97
KAYSHA: It's all love
Because it all comes down to love after all...
Recommended if you like Wyclef Jean, Kassav'.MP3 price: $10.00
JOHNNY REINHARD AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC ORCHESTRA: ODYSSEUS - cello soloist Dave Eggar
Features cellist Dave Eggar and 55 American Festival of Microtonal Music musicians in the polymicrotonal musical telling of the Homeric epic. The musicians represent a galaxy of the world's best stemming from diverse musical worlds.
Recommended if you like Johnny A..CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
GAP MANGIONE: Family Holidays
New and unique treatments of traditional and nontraditional holiday music and some new Mangione originals. Featuring Steve Gadd, Grant Geissman, Tony Levin, Gerry Niewood, Pat Labarbera, Jeff Jarvis, Andy Weinzler.
CD price: $16.98
THE BROTHERS FIGARO ORCHESTRA: Old Time Christmas
Unique Swing Band arrangements of Christmas favorites, like 1939 Tommy Dorsey coming out of an antique console radio, played by ex-Grant Lee Buffalo bandmembers Bill Bonk and Phil Parlapiano.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
WILL LEE & BILL LEE: BirdHouse
Smoking' jazz played by modern players in traditional style. Bill Lee: Piano, Will Lee: Bass, Billy Hart: Drums, Michael Brecker: saxophone, Randy Brecker: trumpet. And more.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
THE SIBL PROJECT: Songs Inspired By Literature - Chapter One
Songwriters from all over America and Canada have donated their songs inspired by books, plays and poems to help raise funds for literacy. These tunes vary from acoustic pop to whimsical.
CD price: $15.00
MIKE AIKEN: Just Add Salt
Rootsy, Americana/country tunes. Images of surf, salt, sand, and ocean winds combine to entice the listener to escape their world and join him for a cool drink in a faraway place. So, dig your toes in the sand, but beware, you may get blown away.
CD price: $14.99
MR. MYERS: Live At Last 2: Destination Blarney Island
A lively mix of reggae, calypso and pop/rock covers (and several originals) on this live CD released in 2006.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
ANDREW FOX AND THE EMERGENCY: Malodies
folk rock and soul with eclectic instrumentation.
Recommended if you like Jack Johnson, Andrew Bird.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GENE MITCHELL: Dancing On The Beach
Island Jazz, Calypso, Beach shag dance music, reggae. Tropical themed lyrics and music in several generes.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
SHORTY&SLIM: Going Down To Panama
Shorty&Slim #4: More NEW tracks of that Calypso, Reggae, Latin, and Rock-n-Roll blend. Includes LIVE versions of past favorites. All S&S tunes are lyrically based on the country of Panama and the Panama Canal Zone.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TRACI LEILA: Money Honey
Hot and sexy artist Tracy Leila has her new EP debut "Money Honey" from Attack/DEP.
CD price: $6.50 / MP3 price: $6.50
KOBO TOWN: Independence
Drawing its inspiration from traditional calypso, roots reggae and dub, Kobo Town's music explores the rich lyrical tradition and compelling rhythms of calypso's formative years - the age of the Roaring Lion, Mighty Spoiler, Lord Invader, among others.
