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Following up on this list from yesterday, here's Part Deux. The intent is to once again open up my music library with well-loved picks to help curate your mental backdrop against which to read my reviews. If you happen to share my stylistic tastes, chances are solid that this selection will contain some winners for you. To parse what suits, most of them should be available on sundry streaming services or YouTube videos to sample. That's how I purchased them after all. Again, 'i' stands for instrumental, 'v' for vocals. Where the two combine, the first letter indicates the album's majority focus.
1 Karim Baggili – Kali City – i
2 Joël Grare – Des pas sous la neige – i
3 Tomatito & Michel Camilo – Spain – i
4 Carmen Lundy – Self Portrait – v
5 Jan Garbarek – Visible World – i
6 Salar Aghili – Negar – v
7 Homayoun Shajarian & Alireza Ghorbani – Afsaneye Chashmhayat – v
8 L. Subramaniam – Beyond – i
9 Anoushka Shankar – Rise – i
10 Haig Yazdjian – Amalur – i
11 Rafael Aragon – Passion – i
12 Louis Winsberg – Jaleo – i + v
13 Panagiotis Stergiou – Hanging out with my friends – i
14 George Dalaras – Mediterranean – v
15 Suren Asatryan – Veda – i
16 Eleftheria Arvanitaki – The Bodies and the Knives – v
17 Pascal de Loutchek & Pierre Bluteau – Valse – i
18 Loulou Djine – Fragments – v
19 Dan Gharibian Trio – Da svidanya Madame – v + i
20 Talisman – Russian Gipsy Fire – i + v
21 Rafael Cortés – Cagiñi – i
22 Miguel Poveda – Coplas del querer – v
23 Juan-Manuel Cañizares – Punto de encuentro – i
24 Gerardo Nuñez – Travesía – i
25 Diego el Cigala – Romance de la luna Tucumana – v + i
26 Dorantes – Sur – i
27 Fatal Mambo – Rumbagitation – v
28 Ertan Tekin – Demans – i
29 Deborah Henson-Conant – Talking Hands – i
30 Compay Segundo – Duets – v
31 Wolfgang Meyer & Peter Lehel – Bossa Nova – i
32 Øystein Sevåg – Bridge – i
33 Randy Tico – Earth Dance – i
34 Oscar & Co. – Tell Mambo – v
35 Sevara Nazarkhan – Sen – v
36 Sœur Marie Keyrouz – Méditations d’Orient – v
37 Sezen Aksu – Adi Bende Sakli – v
38 Thierry ‘Titi’ Robin – Un ciel de cuivre – i
39 Adnan Karaduman – Meçhul – i
40 Burak Malçok – Sakli Nefes – i
41 Çag Erçag – Aydincik Enver – i
42 Cengiz Kurtoglu & Hakan Altun – Usta & Çirak – v
43 Fahir Atakoglu – Iz – v + i
44 Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Kelebek – i
45 Sema Moritz – Vazgeçmem – v
46 The Secret Trio – Three of us – i
47 AsiaBeat – Spirit of the People – i
48 CaravanSareil – Walking to Kashi – i + v
49 Jamshied Sharifi – A Prayer for the Soul of Layla – i + v
50 Tulku – Season of Souls – i + v
51 InterContinental Ensemble – Travelling Light – i
52 Renaud Garcia-Fons – Oriental Bass – i
53 ®chestra – Weeshuis – i + v
54 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Musst Musst – v
55 Vassilis Tsabropoulos – You – i
56 Jacques Loussier Trio – Plays Debussy – i
57 Øystein Sevåg & Lakki Patey- Visual – i
58 Lynni Treekrem – Haugtussa – v
59 Matthieu Saglio – El Camino de los Ventos – i
60 Mark Eliyahu – Roads – i
61 Jai Uttal – Monkey – v + i
62 Romane & Stochelo Rosenberg – Elegance – i
63 Gonzalo Bergara – Porteña Soledad – i
