Re: Dear Abbey, AJ recommendations please?

Bil (bil2@aol.com)
Thu, 31 Jul 97 11:26:11 -0500


>Do you have any ideas for someone (a girlfriend) who listens to Enigma,
>Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, etc - I'm thinking of something a little less
>mainstream
>than Enigma - more weirded-out: World Music from Betelgeuse. Maybe =
something
>along the lines of Quango's The Goddess Project, although it doesn't have
>to be
>a compilation - individual band ideas would be fine too.

Not familiar with The Goddess Project. What's it all about?
As far as Nusrat, he's on these comps you didn't mention:

Big Noise=8BA Mambo Inn Compilation (Rydodisc) Various artists: DJ =
Food; Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Khaled; Sweet Talks; Kanda Bongo =
Man; Mambomania; Andy Montanez; Libre; Airto; The Young-Holt Trio; =
Ramsey Lewis; Jimmy McGriff; Luther Barnes and the Red Budd Gospel =
Choir;

and

Quango World Voices (Quango/Island) Various artists: Nusrat Fateh Ali =
Khan; Natacha Atlas; Uman; Milton Nascimento; Ana Belen; Mercedes =
Sosa; Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses; Salif Keita; Vox; Giovanni =
Venosta.

You might check out:

Trance Planet volume three (Triloka) Various artists: Rachid Taha; =
Vyatchescav Kagen-Paley; Oumou Sangare; Tulku; Steve Shehan & Baly =
Othmani; Stellamara; Djivan Gasparyan; Iki Levy; Stephan Micus; =
Malang Cissokho; Abed Azrie; Ali Akbar Khan; Orchestra Marrabenta =
Star de Mocambique;

and if she likes the booming drum/rainforest sounds there's:

Trancendence (Triloka) by Tulku

bil
bdwyer@grove.ufl.edu