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Want to hear some World Music and get up to date with all the news? WEN is an on-line multimedia magazine for world music. It promotes music from all corners of the globe, and has the rights for web broadcasting WOMAD. WOMAD at Caceres in Spain is viewable on-line, as are many other audio shows, music stories, videos and webcasts.
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| Musicians from around the world are making a growing contribution to our culture and the music we listen to. Senegal's superstar Youssou N'Dour, for example, wrote the theme tune for the 1998 World Cup Finals, and is also put forward by many Senegalese as being a serious contender for president of their country. |
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RISC's World Shop stocks a good range of CDs from the leading World Music labels, including compilations from all the major World Music labels listed below together with a large selection of CDs by popular and more well-known artists such as Cesaria Evora or Buena Vista Social Club. | ||
| Nascente have released nearly 70 titles of world music, including takes by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Thomsa Mapfuno from Africa, and compilations as diverse as Mediterranean Cafe Songs or Brasil Acoustic. |
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Real World Records are the pedigree label associated with WOMAD, and as such have a large collection of CDs representing the whole kaleidoscope of acts who have appeared at WOMAD festivals around the world over the past years. | ||
| Putumayo are a NY-based label,whose 30 plus World Music CDs are now available in over 30 countries of the world, specialising in compilations of musical styles. |
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World Music Network release the bestselling Rough Guide series of compilation CDs, now numbering more than 50 titles, plus cutting edge original releases on the Riverboat label. | ||
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Earthworks are a well-established label, dealing mainly with African sounds. |
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Barbara Luna, from Argentina was one of the many artists at Reading's WOMAD festival and whose tango-inspired albums appear on the French Melodie label, available at RISC . |
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