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Contents.History In 1991, on his way home from, Dan Storper stopped in San Francisco, California. In, he heard the Nigerian band Kotoja. He was impressed by the music and the way it gathered many different people.
Putumayo World Music Albums
He made a compilation of music he had gathered on his journeys and gathered a positive response. This led him to give out his first release in 1993. Storper took the name of his record label, Putumayo, from 's where he travelled in 1974, which subsequently came from the name of. The word is said to be the name of a bird. Artwork Every release features the art of Nicola Heindl.
Her art is both folky and modern, and, according to the Putumayo website, 'represents one of Putumayo's goals: to connect the traditional to the contemporary.' Putumayo Presents Typically a Putumayo World Music compilation is presented as a theme under the title “Putumayo Presents:” The themes can be regional (, ), music types (, ) and other themes (, party).The Putumayo Kids division was created in 2002. Since the release of the World Playground CD in 1999, Putumayo Kids has achieved honors from Parents' Choice Awards.Putumayo launched the Putumayo World Music Hour in 2000, a commercially-syndicated world music radio show. Rosalie Howarth of hosted the Music Hour. The weekly show was heard internationally on over 150 commercial and non-commercial stations.
Putumayo Presents World Groove
Putumayo has ten offices worldwide. Their products are sold at a network of more than 3,000 book, gift, clothing, coffee and other specialty retailers in the US.
The label claims to distribute their CDs in more than 80 countries around the world. Putumayo's compilations have been available digitally since August 2011.
Putumayo Presents World Groove Rarest
Deciding not to pigeonhole themselves with any single culture to work from as a base, the folks at Putumayo this time have put out an album of groove music from a sector no smaller than the world itself. Despite this original statement though, the focus of the music lies in Europe and Africa, with some small bits of disruption. The phenomenon of dance music has its core in Europe, so it's not terribly surprising that they'd be at the forefront of the world groove (aka world-tronica, aka ethno-trance) movement, as well as purely European dance music that features heavily here. The album opens up with the French DJs and a surprisingly catchy bounce. Turk has a remix straight from mid- to late- '90s American R&B, and some very nice electro-pop from a German group leads into another French DJ collective, closing the first European pass with a surprisingly effective Cuban hook. Starting a tour of Africa, the current master of fusing the old and new, combines synths, koras, and ngonis on a hit from his album. Bridges the gap between continents culturally, adding a deep thump under the usual vocal prowess, and a hip-hop hit from 's album follows, moving the focus north a bit.
Finishing up the African pass is South African, remixed into some dub-like dance. Moving out of the main spheres a bit at the end, there's a piece of electro-son from, and a piece from the Middle East by Lebanese. Included with the disc is a stray Egyptian/Indian video from the, as well as a full album-length sampler taking from the full lines of groove and lounge CDs on Putumayo. Given the incredible beats and dance music on the primary disc, and some extra bonuses, this disc ranks highly among world dance releases for the year.