Indies Scope press release : It´s only rom´n´roll - this label was mostly used as a response to the last studio records of band Terne Čhave and their numerous live shows well known for endless energy. Terne Čhave took their time with a new record and one can feel it!

Half Czech, Half Welsh and part Mermaid, Katus (pronounced Katoosh ) is adding to her clutch of festival awards. After a recent performance at the Buxton Fringe Festival along with partner and percussionist John Burns, they were picked as "The Best Performer" and also received the accolade of best entry.

Katus and John live in nearby Glossop ( well nearby for us in Sheffield ) and came into the studios to do a session for GondwanaSound a year ago.

Vampisoul present a double cd of dance music, which ruled the dancefloors across much of West Africa from the 60's to the early 1970's. One of the century's first fusion of African Roots with Western music.

Zaina Baezie is a female world music singer of the 21st century revival. A technically a creative singer / song writer with a genuinely powerful voice, she belts out her up tempo numbers on her current album "Sei Wiisi".

There's no warm up with this album, after declaring its anti war politics in the first opening 30 seconds, the music comes at you like a shot from a catapult. Balkan ska punk with a bit of swing which will appeal to anyone in the mood for a right old knees up.

'Tunya', is the second album by Guinean kora and balafon player/singer/composer and former Afro Celt Sound System member N'Faly Kouyaté and follows his 2004 debut 'Kora Grooves', both recorded with his band Dunyakan ('the Voice of the World').

An in-depth look at the music of a Nigerian legend, who combined the rhythms and traditions of the historic culture of the Empire of Benin with the sounds of Highlife, Soul and Reggae to produce his own unique and culturally vital musical hybrid.

Billed as a world premiere for an impressive ramshorn, lur and willow flute album, of a kind never heard before!

A double cd packed of 23 tracks from artists, many of whom are at the start of their musical careers. This comes less than a year after the First Folk rising, a single cd and serves to demonstrate the strength of the new generation folk scene here in the UK.

My first reaction on reading about the album was, " genius why didn't I think of that?" and immediately phoned Esther for a copy for airplay.