ARTIST ... Origin
Title  Duration
(Album) [Label]

BANABILA / SAKA .... Holland
Mr. Popovich Tribal Mix 3'46
(The Dreamfields) [Stemra]

Baaba MAAL & Mansour SECK .... Senegal
Miskinébé 6'06
(Sunugal) [Distributed by Talla DIAGNE in Dakar !]
A cassette album recorded late 94 released only in Senegal, very much in the style of the seminal Djam Leeli. Today is SENEGAL NATIONAL DAY marking their independence from France in 1960.

Mansour SECK & Ousmane Hamady DIOP .... Senegal / Mauritania
Diewo 5'00
(N'Der Fouta Tooro Vol.2) [Stern's Africa]

Grahame HAYNES .... USA
Walidiya 11'55
(Transition) [Verve]
including the voice of Amina. This piece is fairly uncharacteristic of a disc influenced by everything from John Coltrane, to acid funk and hip-hop. This track appeals to me in the same way as the superb "Enlightenment" on his album "The Griots Footsteps". Haynes is an Afro-American cornet-player.

Rabih ABOU-KHALIL & The BALANESCU QUARTET .... Lebanon / Germany
Ornette Never Sleeps - Radio Edit 4'46
(Arabian Waltz) [Enja]
This is the painfully brief promotional CD that gets thrown at radio stations as a precursor to a forthcoming album. See next week's playlist for a brief review of the album.

Trilok GURTU .... India
Deep Tri 7'02
(Usfret) [CMP]
This 87 / 88 disc includes his mother Shobha GURTU, Ralph TOWNER, Don CHERRYand SHANKAR.

Geoffrey ORYEMA .... Uganda / UK
Lapwony 6'50
(WOMADELAIDE '95) [ABC Music]
*** INTERVIEW with Paul PETRAN, on the process of assembling this CD from the live recordings made by ABC Radio at last years festival ***
Hukwe ZAWOSE .... Tanzania
Uzelange 4'23
(WOMADELAIDE '95) [ABC Music]

SOWETO STRING QUARTET .... South Africa
Zebra Crossing 4'08
(Zebra Crossing) [BMG]

Grahame HAYNES .... USA
Transition 8'00
(Transition) [Verve]