Real World 25 3CD Box
[Released 29th September 2014]
Condensing 25 years of history onto three CDs was always going to be an impossible task; we knew we would only ever skim the surface of the extensive range of wonderful music we have been so lucky to encounter. But here goes... read the full Real World 25 story.
Disc 1
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Mustt Mustt - Maryam Mursal
Kufilaw - Joi
Fingers - Little Axe
If I Had My Way - The Blind Boys of Alabama
Run on for a Long Time - Peter Gabriel
The Feeling Begins - Ayub Ogada
Kothbiro - Jocelyn Pook
Dionysus - Hukwe Zawose
Sisitizo La Amani Duniani - Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila
Kipenda Roho - Adrian Sherwood
No Dog Jazz - Dub Colossus
Guragigna - Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores
La Sombra Negra - The Imagined Village
Cold Haily Rainy Night - Iarla Ó Lionáird
Glistening Fields - Lama Gyurme and Jean-Philippe Rykiel
Offering Chant (Unplugged)
Disc 2
- Pape & Cheikh
Mariama - Daúde
Muito Quente - Los De Abajo
Resistencia - Toumast
Innulamane - Farafina
Dounounia - Djivan Gasparyan & Michael Brook
Take My Heart - Joji Hirota
Kokiriko Melody - Mara! With Martenitsa Choir
To My First Love - Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble
Utopia - Mamer
Mountain Wind - Värttinä
Valhe/The Lie - Tenores Di Bitti
T’amo - Thomas Mapfumo
Marudzi Nemarudzi (Different Races) - The Ananda Shankar Experience & State of Bengal
Streets of Calcutta - Syriana
Al Araby - Guo Yue
White Kite - The Creole Choir of Cuba
Fey Oh Di Nou
Disc 3
- Joseph Arthur
In The Sun - Daby Touré
Iris - Sevara Nazarkhan
Yol Bolsin - Afro Celt Sound System
Release - Portico Quartet
Line - Yungchen Lhamo
Happiness Is… - Spiro
The City and the Stars - Martyn Bennett
Move - JuJu
Night Walk - Charlie Winston
In Your Hands - Big Blue Ball
altus silva - Geoffrey Oryema
Land of Anaka - Sheila Chandra
Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook
Sweet Pain - Papa Wemba
Awa Y’okeyi
Real World Tales
We asked musicians, producers, engineers, managers, media, photographers and artists for anecdotes, first impressions, amusing stories, curious encounters, unexpected meetings, hazy memories... and these are their Real World Tales.
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