| Release Date: | 060923 |
| Currently: | In stock (1) |
| Please note: | Last copy available. Going forward this title will be special order only. |
Vinyl LP pressing. Celebrated singer, musician and producer Dudu Tassa teams up with award-winning composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile) for a new album 'Jarak Qaribak' (arabic for 'Your Friend Is Your Neighbour'), bringing together vocalists and musicians from throughout the Middle East for a very special album of cross-border collaborations.
World Circuit Records has made it's reputation by producing some of the finest albums of the past three decades. The label is best known for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club album (and associated solo artists Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo and Ruban Gonza¡lez), which is the biggest selling world music album of all time and has contributed to the phenomenal rise in popularity of Cuban, as well as Latin American, music. World Circuit is also home to a number of revered African artists including the late Tony Allen (whose Afrobeat-jazz collaboration with Hugh Masekela 'Rejoice' was released to great critical acclaim in March 2020), iconic blues pioneer Ali Farka Tourka (whose classic Grammy winning 'Talking Timbuktu' album, recorded with Ry Cooder, brought the label early international acclaim), Malian divas and social activists Oumou Sangara© and Fatoumata Diawara, master kora player Toumani Diabat