Various Artists - Creole SoundsA vibrant mix of creole heritage. The music of Sakili is from the island Rodrigues, a small volcanic island just east of Mauritius. The island's European and African influences waltzes, polka, mazurka, Scottish all blend harmoniously with the sgadrum rhythms to intertwine the past musical traditions of African slaves with the western world. The three members of Sakili (Francis Prosper, Vallen Pierre Louis and Ricardo Legentil) had their own solo

chosen according to the character of each sonata: a Viennese piano after Johann Andreas Stein and an original John Broadwood from 1822

Even more than the two arias on this release

' and a negative form

but it has now resulted in a beautiful collaboration with great genre versatility which is expressed in their distinctive and grandiose sound

there was a bust above the piano

musica sacra has shaped the choir's past

and an all-star supporting cast includes slide guitar whiz Sonny Landreth

Guest stars include Simon Callow

The repertoire on this album has never been recorded previously on recorders

these developments pose the threat of a looming neo-imperial order with it's own sinister "year zero"

the Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen

Arno Babajanyan and others have used these ancient folk melodies in their compositions and thus the style "Armenian Classical Piano Music" was born