Air Mail Music: A Journey Around the World

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All Music Guide - Thom Jurek
Air Mail Music is a budget compilation assembled from the catalogs of three labels: Air Mail, Air Mail Archive, and Playasound. Seemingly assembled as a promo for the record labels involved, the single disc contains 19 tracks by musicians from across the globe without any focus or regard for sequencing. Despite the excellence of some tunes here (examples include Armendio de Melo and Jose Maria Nogubra's forlorn Spanish instrumental "Guitarra Triste," Moines Gelugpa's deeply moving, Tibetan Buddhist ritual chant "Om Mani Padme Houng," the grand chanson "Tsour Michelo" by Sylvie Sivann, and a handful of others), the album's lack of context or framework leave the listener ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Thom Jurek
Air Mail Music is a budget compilation assembled from the catalogs of three labels: Air Mail, Air Mail Archive, and Playasound. Seemingly assembled as a promo for the record labels involved, the single disc contains 19 tracks by musicians from across the globe without any focus or regard for sequencing. Despite the excellence of some tunes here (examples include Armendio de Melo and Jose Maria Nogubra's forlorn Spanish instrumental "Guitarra Triste," Moines Gelugpa's deeply moving, Tibetan Buddhist ritual chant "Om Mani Padme Houng," the grand chanson "Tsour Michelo" by Sylvie Sivann, and a handful of others), the album's lack of context or framework leave the listener little in the way of a memorable listening experience, and simply create an aural drive-by. There are detailed liner notes so one can read about the artists and discover which releases they were pruned from, but that doesn't create pleasure in the hearing itself.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 5/11/2010
  • Label: Playasound
  • EAN: 3700089420023
  • Catalog Number: 142002
  • Sales rank: 147,614

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Medley of Various Gipsy Folk Themes - Orchestre De Brno (4:06)
  2. 2 Hunter's Purse : Cooley's - Katrien Delavier (3:03)
  3. 3 Tsour Michelo - Sylvie Sivann (3:58)
  4. 4 Le Voyage D'Ulysse - Paraskevas Grekis (3:39)
  5. 5 Leave Her Johny - Spirit of Adventure (3:28)
  6. 6 Guitarra Triste - Armendio De Melo (3:23)
  7. 7 Bimba - Sissokho Yakhouba (3:49)
  8. 8 Bac-City - Les Tambours De Brazza (3:32)
  9. 9 Falafell - Hussein el Masry (4:47)
  10. 10 Abodan - Jean-Claude Gollet-Zea (4:04)
  11. 11 Om Mani Padme Houng - Moines Gelougpa (1:59)
  12. 12 Tamashii No Sokokara - Fumie Hihara (2:24)
  13. 13 Valente Nordeste - Nazare Pereira (3:29)
  14. 14 Las Virgines Del Sol - Florencio Coronado (3:03)
  15. 15 Quenas - Sayri Tupac (3:19)
  16. 16 Mi Dicha Lejana - Los Diablos del Paraguay (3:35)
  17. 17 Papop - Charley Mauu (2:34)
  18. 18 Black Run - Christophe Mad'dene (3:37)
  19. 19 Haka - Te Runga Rawa (1:22)
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Album Credits

Technical Credits
Katrien Delavier Arranger
Hussein el Masry Composer
Jose Maria Nobrega Arranger
Paraskevas Grekis Composer
Viacheslav Grokhovsky Director
Christophe Mad'dene Composer
Traditional Composer
Didier Périer Mastering
Emile Biayenda Composer
Sissokho Yakhouba Composer
Marzena Komsta Composer
Christian Mesmin Arranger
Domingos Camarinha Arranger
Armendio De Melo Arranger
Madou Kita Composer
L. Dunker Lavalle Composer
Jean-Claude Gollet-Zea Composer
J. Bravo Da Rueda Composer
Emigdio Ayalo Baez Composer
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