Real World Records

Portico Quartet

World - Released by Real World Records on 5 Nov 2007

On its debut CD, KNEE DEEP IN THE NORTH SEA, Mercury Prize-nominated combo the Portico Quartet delivers an unusually meditative brand of world music-i ...

Geoffrey Oryema

World - Released by Real World Records on 4 Sep 1990

Oryema plays the nanga, a zither described as having seven strings, though some have one string that runs seven times across the instrument making the ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

World - Released by Real World Records on 26 Jul 2019

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Portico Quartet

World - Released by Real World Records on 22 Apr 2010

"The abundance of wind and percussion instruments make the Quartet sound wonderfully different, but familiar all at the same time. It is cool jazz, dr ...

Afro Celt Sound System

World - Released by Real World Records on 25 Jan 1999

Volume 2: Release, Afro Celt Sound System's eagerly anticipated second album, continues the group's dedication to hypnotic grooves and innovative arra ...

Afro Celt Sound System

World - Released by Real World Records on 18 Jun 2001

Taken on its own, Volume 3: Further in Time is a fun, multi-textured album that combines a club groove with traditional sounds from Celtic music, Afri ...

Big Blue Ball

World - Released by Real World Records on 28 Jul 2008

Big Blue Ball is more of a collective than a band, with the final project being completed well over a decade after the majority of the sessions. Back ...

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Lama Gyurme, Jean Philippe Rykiel

World - Released by Real World Records on 6 Mar 2000

The trend in the late '90s or so among new age musicians has been to adapt the devotional music of non-European cultures to make it more accessible, m ...

The Gloaming

World - Released by Real World Records on 2 Mar 2018

Portico Quartet

World - Released by Real World Records on 24 Jan 2012

This fourth album from the unique British jazz ensemble is the follow-up to 2009's Isla. Recorded by Greg Freeman (Goldfrapp, Roni Size), it sees the ...

The Gloaming

World - Released by Real World Records on 22 Feb 2019

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The Gloaming

World - Released by Real World Records on 18 Feb 2014

"A synthesis of traditional Irish music and post-rock, The Gloaming’s second album is a tour de force of this unique and fascinating combination. Alth ...

Papa Wemba

World - Released by Real World Records on 10 Apr 2020

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Michael Brook

World - Released by Real World Records on 12 Jul 2019

Afro Celt Sound System

World - Released by Real World Records on 24 Mar 2003

Aided by nearly two dozen guest musicians, this effort from the Afrocelts (aka the Afro-Celt Sound System) veers off in a slightly different direction ...

Charlie Musselwhite

World - Released by Real World Records on 2 May 2006

While Charlie Musselwhite has always been an adventurous musician -- take into consideration his fine Cuban inflected Continental Drifter, the America ...

The Gloaming

World - Released by Real World Records on 11 Mar 2016

Djivan Gasparyan, Michael Brook

World - Released by Real World Records on 7 Sep 1998

With Black Rock, Canadian composer Michael Brook applies the same approach he used in his two Real World collaborations with Pakistani singer Nusrat F ...

Peter Gabriel

World - Released by Real World Records on 10 Jun 2022

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Les Amazones d'Afrique

World - Released by Real World Records on 24 Jan 2020

Les Amazones d’Afrique is a pan-African supergroup created by singers Mamani Keïta, Oumou Sangaré and Mariam Doumbia in 2014: their agenda on this sec ...

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Big Blue Ball

Country - Released by Real World Records on 28 Jul 2008

Big Blue Ball is more of a collective than a band, with the final project being completed well over a decade after the majority of the sessions. Back ...