CDs, DVDs & a Video

CD clock, CDs, DVDs and Videos. We stock many more than are pictured.  

CDs  in alpha order . DVDs & Videos follow CDs. MOSTLY ONLY £1 POST & PACKING !
 
   
African Music for Children. "Delightful. Full of great tunes and variety". Chosen by children, good for adults too. £10.00
Boulevard de L'Independance with short DVD by Mali's master kora player, Toumani Diabate and his Symmetric Orchestra. "An album of mysterious beauty and funky as hell"
(see under M for his latest album)
£13.00
Duo Guardabarranco. "The soundtrack of the Revolution" .CD and A4 booklet containing lyrics AND guitar tabs of all 20 songs - perfect for singers and musicians. £18.50
Guitarra Armada. Revolutionary songs CD by Carlos Mejia and Luis Enrique Godoy from Nicaragua. £10.00
Haiku. Beautiful, unusual and varied CD by Yusa from Cuba (shades of Tracy Chapman?). Price includes post & packing. £14.00
Hasta El Aroma de la Flor. Victor Jara's passionate and beautiful songs interpreted by Paul Baker Hernandez, sung in Spanish and English. Invaluable for anyone trying to improve their Spanish. Part of the proceeds go to the Victor Jara Foundation. Victor Jara was murdered in the US/Pinochet coup in Chile of September 11, 1973.
 
£10.00
La Misa Campesina CD with bi-lingual booklet. This mass, recorded in Nicaragua, was written by Carlos Mejia Godoy and the words translated by Dinah Livingstone. The mass expresses the commitment of Nicaraguan Christians to the principles of the Sandinista Revolution. A good example of Liberation Theology. Price includes post & packing. £16.50
La Radiolina. Manu Chao's highly original mixture of Latin, rock, reggae, gypsy punk and more. Price includes post & packing. £14.00
Latin Music for Children. Excellent varied compilation selected by children (great for adults too) £10.00
Made in Dakar by Orchestra Baobab. Gentle, melodic new songs with sax and rippling guitars. One of my tops. £13.00
The Mande Variations. Toumani Diabete's "modern classic", a benchmark of traditional African music by a kora maestro in his prime". Price includes post & packing.
 
£14.00
Mi Sueño. The last album by the great, late, Cuban vocalist and Buena Vista Social Club star, Ibrahim Ferrer. £13.00
Rough Guide to Latin Jazz. Recommended compilation (even if you're not really a lover of jazz). £10.00
Rough Guide to Latin Street Party. Recommended compilation with mainstream, classics, alternative & remixes. Get dancing ! Price includes post & packing. £11.00
Rough Guide to Mali. Enticing new compilation: desert blues, both acoustic and otherwise,, from the region's best singers and bands. Price includes post & packing. £11.00
The Rough Guide to Venezuela. Check out Venezuela's many styles of music: salsa to Andean to Afro-Caribbean mixes. 19 tracks. £10.00
Savane CD by Mali's Ali Farka Toure. One of the most traditional and seemingly the most blues-drenched of Ali's recordings. Ali finally declared himself satisfied with it shortly before his death. "...one of contemporary African music's finest achievements".
 
£13.00
Water is Life (Aman Iman) CD. Unusually good desert blues from Tinariwen, politicised Saharan band. £13.50
 
World Circuit Presents...... 27 tracks from World Circuit's Latin American and African recordings: old favourites and previously unrecorded tracks. £13.00
The Writing on the Wall. CD by Tony Benn and Roy Bailey ("one of the finest voices in the folk world"). A passionate and entertaining history of resistance and exploitation in the UK. Price includes post & packing. £12.00
ZubopGambia. Zubop's worldbeat jazz/township/reggae/latin with impassioned Gambian voices and instruments. Excellent. £12.00
     
DVDs and a Video (VHS), some with subtitles.      
All About my Mother DVD. One of Almodovar's most popular, in Catalan and Spanish with sub-titles. Price includes post & packing. £12.50
Behind the Sun DVD. Two rural Brazilian families locked in a feud in 1910. Portuguese with sub-titles. Price includes post & packing. £15.00
Bombón El Perro DVD. Gently humorous Argentinean film about a man and a dog. Marvellous landscapes. Subtitles. £11.50
Butterflys Tongue DVD. A 6-year old boy and his grandfather as the Spanish civil war looms. Spanish with sub-titles. Price includes post & packing. £15.00
Carla's Song DVD. Ken Loach film set in Glasgow and Nicaragua at the time of the 1980s contra war. Some very funny, some very grim moments. In English and Spanish with subtitles. £11.50
Coffee - Take It Fairly: Stories of Nicaraguan women fairtrade producers. Video.
Three women fairtrade coffee producers from the community of Los Alpes, northern Nicaragua describe with great pride their families, their farms and the difference that fairtrade has made to their lives. Produced by Anita Sandhu & Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign 2006 25 min. Price includes post & packing.
£7.50
Coffee - Take It Fairly: Stories of Nicaraguan fairtrade producers. DVD.
Three women fairtrade coffee producers from the community of Los Alpes, northern Nicaragua describe with great pride their families, their farms and the difference that fairtrade has made to their lives. Produced by Anita Sandhu & Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign 2006 25 min. Price includes post & packing.
£10.00
El Bonaerense DVD. Locksmith in Buenos Aires finds his life changes suddenly. Tough political messages. In Spanish with subtitles. Price includes post & packing.
 
£15.00
Historias Minimas DVD. Three people journey through Patagonia with very different experiences. In Spanish with subtitles. Price includes post & packing. £15.00
Innocent Voices DVD. Award-winning film about an 11-year old boy caught up in El Salvador's war of the 1980s. In Spanish with subtitles. £11.50
It's a Free World DVD. Latest Ken Loach drama in which Angie gets involved in the UK's illegal employment business. Price includes post & packing. £15.00
Like Water For Chocolate DVD. Set in early 20th century Mexico, a glorious film about love and cooking. Brilliant cinematography. Subtitles. £11.50
Machuca DVD. Friendship between two 11-year old Chilean boys is tested at the time of the coup. In Spanish with sub-titles. Price includes post & packing. £15.00
Our America DVD. Fascinating democracy (2006) including footage of Nicaragua at the time of the Revolution. View in English, Spanish or German. Price includes post & packing. £12.50
Rabbit on the Moon DVD. Political conspiracy thriller shot in Mexico and London. In English and Spanish. Price includes post & packing. £12.50
Volver DVD. Almodovar's playful, melodramatic, warm film about the apparition of a mother visiting her daughters. In Spanish with subtitles. £11.50
War on Democracy DVD. Award-winning journalist John Pilger examines US manipulation of Latin American policies over the last 50 years and how these policies are being used in the Middle East. Price includes post & packing. £15.00
The Wind that Shakes the Barley DVD. Ken Loach's award-winning, controversial film about Irish Republicanism in the 20s. £11.50
     
     

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