24th April 2012
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Frevo – Astrud Gilberto – Look to the Rainbow – Verve V6 8643 – Brazil
Fon-Fon-Fon – Deolinda – Canção ao Lado – World Connection WC 43084 – Portugal
Freedom Day on 25 April is a national holiday in Portugal
JMF – Roberto Fonseca – Yo – Jazz Village (Harmonia Mundi) – Cuba
Crazy-Eyed Woman – Woody Pines – Counting Alligators – n/a – North Carolina
La canción de Buenos Aires – Débora Russ – Tangos Pendientes – Accords Croisés AC 145 – Argentina
Armenian Martyrs’ Day. April 24th is the day we remember the victims of a forgotten genocide. On April 24, 1915
Grounk – Armenian Folk Group directed by Ara Bartevian, Baghos Kouyoumdjian, zither – Armenian Folksongs and Dances – Vogue VA 160113 (LP) – Armenia
Hypnotize – System of a Down – Hypnotize – Epic Records – California
Lovely Spring – Djivan Gasparian – Moon shines at night – Materiali Sonori (All Saints) 12957 1102 2 – Armenia
Ombra Mai Fù – Kathleen Ferrier with the LSO conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent – Kathleen Ferrier: A Tribute – Decca Records – England
Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953)
Boy in the Sky – Robert Lokat (Stuart Duncan, piano) – Oh My – RLCD 001 – Glasgow
Ni Koh Bedy – Mali Latino – Putumayo Presents African Blues – Putumayo PUT 317 2 – Mali/UK
Sâbil – Ahmad Al Khatib & Youssef Hbeisch – Sabîl – Institut du Monde Arabe 321 090 – Palestine
Teke Song – Group of Ngadha people from West-Central Flores – Discover Indonesia – Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40484 – Indonesia
Metamani – Black Paradise – Spirit of Mambesak – Blunt 20046 – West Papua