This album showcases Carmen Souza’s mesmerizing colorful, versatile, and expressive voice, which perfectly blends African and Cape Verdean traditional rhythms with contemporary jazz and Afro-Latin touches.

The winner of CubaDisco 2010! A melting pot of eight top Cuban reggaeton artists features the best of Cuban urban music in a fusion of reggaeton and hip-hop.

Django Reinhardt, the pure genius, became the greatest European jazz musician. The Rosenberg Trio, from the Netherlands, is estimated to be the leading gypsy ensemble in the musical genre of “Manouche Swing” or “Gypsy Jazz” that owes its very existence to Reinhardt. Following the great gypsy musical tradition, these three cousins were taught to practice restlessly, playing the classics over and over again.

The Irish Rebellion of 1798, the tragic fates of young Kevin Barry and James Connolly, the Boys of Wexford, and more—all are related on this album devoted to revolutionary Irish songs, immortalizing the bloody events that have marked Ireland’s history and showing the courage of her freedom fighters and the distress of their families.