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<title>Top Ethnic Fusion Artists on Rhapsody Online</title>
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<outline type="include" text="Enya" description="After leaving her siblings' outfit Clannad, Enya (born Eithne Ni Bhraonain) enjoyed a short stint of television and film score appearances before embarking on a solo career. Produced by Nicky Ryan to accentuate her angelic, atmospheric vocal style, lush, swelling synths and minimal rhythms accompany ever so delicately as her voice crests upon lush, tearful soundscapes with astounding grace. Not necessarily pop, nor decidedly its antithesis, Enya's intensely melodic, ethereal music is downright chilling.
- Kelly Bauman" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/enya/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Enigma" description="Enigma gift-wrapped Gregorian chant for the disco set on their undeniably catchy crossover hit &quot;Sadeness.&quot; Since then, they have followed a similar path by sampling different -- often uncredited -- aboriginal folk music and wrapping it in synthy dreamscapes and modern dance beats.
- Nick Dedina" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/enigma/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Deuter" description="Combining acoustic instruments with synthesizers, Germany-born Deuter composes highly serene soundscapes that skillfully blend both eastern and western music elements. Spiritually sensitive and rejuvenating, his light-hearted style provides an ideal background for any meditative moment.
- Melissa Piazza" category="Meditation" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/deuter/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Ottmar Liebert" description="By softening up the edges and adding a Latin-influenced bed of tropical percussion, Liebert has turned Flamenco into a widely appealing genre that has topped the new age charts on multiple occasions. His fleet-fingered picking may not put him in the same echelon as guitarists such as Paco De Lucia, but Liebert's music is designed to please the audience with a sprinkling of exotic flavors. Songs such as &quot;Ballad for Santana&quot; showcase the bittersweet side of his playing, while the hit &quot;Barcelona Nights&quot; is as attractive as a starry night on a Mediterranean cruise. A variety of styles make up Liebert's sound: Rumba, Merengue, classical, dance, jazz and rock all help to make his music the accessibly exciting aural opiate that it is.
- Jeff K." category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/ottmar-liebert/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Jesse Cook" description="Cook weaves his agile Flamenco guitar chops amidst subdued backdrops that blend electronic beats with elements of Pop-Jazz and domesticated world music. An atmosphere of low-key romanticism prevails in much of his work, whether he's playing instrumentals or vocal-oriented pop songs.
- Will York" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/jesse-cook/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Llewellyn" description="Based in the U.K., Llewellyn and Juliana record ethereal New Age music that's perfect for relaxing. That's no accident: both are active students and practitioners of various healing therapies, as titles like &lt;I&gt;Shiatsu Gold&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Music for Reiki Attunement&lt;/I&gt; attest. Drawing from both Asian music and his native Celtic traditions, Llewellyn's music proposes a spiritual unity floating free of time and location.
- Philip Sherburne" category="Meditation" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/llewellyn/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Cirque du Soleil" description="Canada-based modern-day circus troupe has taken its theatric pan-culturalisms everywhere from Japan to Las Vegas. They combine hypnotic rhythms and dramatic vocals with a mix of instruments both traditional and electronic.
- Will York" category="World Pop" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/cirque-du-soleil/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Dead Can Dance" description="It took Dead Can Dance to find the common ground between black-clad gloom rockers and Birkenstock-sporting new agers. They accomplished this by emphasizing the melancholia in their mix of mesmerizing vocals, catchy drum beats, synthy world music, European Renaissance folk and modern studio wizardry. Wrapping it all in Joy Division-style album covers helped lure in the alternative rock crowd. The amazing part was that they never watered any element down, but created a world and a sound all their own. They plunge you into a Technicolor &lt;i&gt;Seventh Seal&lt;/i&gt; that shows the beauty in death and disease while keeping the chess-playing grim reapers at a safe distance. For those who love Siouxsie Sioux &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; herbal tea -- Dead Can Dance are the Tuck and Patti for the Anne Rice set.
- Nick Dedina" category="Goth" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/dead-can-dance/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Kitaro" description="There's a majestic feeling to Kitaro's synthesizer compositions, echoing the music from many cultures with a primal, direct melodic style. Though Kitaro began as a guitarist, he was drawn to the keyboard and proceeded to master its complexities, creating lavish arrangements in a lush, orchestral style. Kitaro's melodies have a deceptive simplicity to them; he can take just a few notes and turn them into a thing of monumental grandeur. One reason Kitaro has succeeded is his openness to other forms of music, which is evident in the diversity of his collaborations. He's worked with musicians such as the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and even Megadeth's Marty Friedman.
- Jessy Terry" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/kitaro/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="R. Carlos Nakai" description="R. Carlos Nakai is undoubtedly the most important Native American flute player in the world. His powerful solo work helped define the genre, and collaborations with international artists and high-profile composers such as Philip Glass have brought the flute to concert halls around the world. Born in Flagstaff, Ariz., to Navajo-Ute parents, Nakai began his musical career on the trumpet. He had the makings of a seriously talented classical player, but instead of enrolling at Juilliard he ended up in the Navy, where a 1970 car accident permanently damaged his embouchure. Though he continued to play trumpet, Nakai knew he'd never regain his former skills, and in 1982 he took up the Native American flute after meeting a flute maker. At the time, few musicians (native or non-) played the flute, and Nakai investigated both the instrument's history and traditional songs. His first self-produced release attracted the attention of Canyon Records, and within a few years he had become the label's star performer. Over the years Nakai has experimented with jazz and fusion, but his flute is always front and center.
- Sarah Bardeen" category="Native American" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/r-carlos-nakai/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Dean Evenson" description="Evenson is something of a new age legend for his own music, as well as the support and production he offers other musicians. His work often combines natural sounds (whales, wind) with ethnic instruments and haunting flutes.
- Jessy Terry" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/dean-evenson/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Secret Garden" description="" category="Adult Alternative" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/secret-garden/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Loreena McKennitt" description="Canadian Loreena McKennitt has always played with one eye on her harp and one eye squinting towards Ireland. Her early albums served as platforms for her delicate harp playing and equally delicate vocals, but she's undertaken ambitious concept albums on more recent efforts that travel the globe stylistically and traverse centuries lyrically. &lt;I&gt;The Book of Secrets&lt;/I&gt; (1997) seemed patterned after the travels of the roving monks described in Thomas Cahill's &lt;I&gt;How the Irish Saved the World&lt;/I&gt;. Standout tracks such as &quot;The Mummer's Dance&quot; and &quot;Dante's Prayer&quot; explore traditional music forms from around the European continent, while other songs entirely erase the lines dividing occidental and oriental music. Literate, adventurous and truly gifted, McKennitt is a rare performer whose music adamantly refuses to recognize stylistic and geographic boundaries. If it's strong tranquilizer you'd have in the ear, stick with Enya. McKennitt is a modern-day bard who whispers ancient wisdoms and dazzles with tales of travel.
- Chad Driscoll" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/loreena-mckennitt/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Keiko Matsui" description="Popular with both New Age and smooth jazz fans, keyboardist Keiko Matsui is one of the few Japanese jazz artists to make a significant impression on a mass American audience. All of her albums have sold exceptionally well in the U.S., particularly 2001's &lt;I&gt;Deep Blue&lt;/I&gt;, which topped the contemporary jazz charts and also scored with pop audiences. Matsui's alternately dreamy and dramatic soundscapes touch upon Asian motifs, but European film soundtracks seem to be her heavier influence. She's married to Kazu Matsui, who has a rewarding New Age career of his own.
- Nick Dedina" category="Contemporary Instrumental" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/keiko-matsui/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Clannad" description="Clannad are ground zero for the hybrid of Celtic Folk, new age synths and pop music that gets piped into seaside gift shops and relaxation seminars. But just because they helped create a genre as starched and bland as a boiled spud doesn't mean that their own music is lifeless. Clannad have been around for thirty years now and have created barrel-loads of beautiful traditional Celtic Folk music, as well as shimmering pop songs and dreamy clover-scapes. The band is actually a family affair -- like a Gaelic, straight-haired, Caucasoid version of the Jackson 5, with Janet and LaToya thrown in for spice. The related Brennan and Duggan broods got together to celebrate their shared heritage. Enya, the beautiful multi-tracked enchantress, was onboard for a short while during the early 1980s when the band was experiencing a surge in popularity in Europe. Since that time, the changes in their sound have more to do with trends in production and technology than artistic shifts. The Corrs have also stolen some of their feathery thunder by bringing even more pop and rock into their mix. Nevertheless, playing a Clannad CD remains a key part of any ponytailed man's plan to seduce his yoga instructor or herbologist.
- Nick Dedina" category="Celtic Folk" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/clannad/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Govi" description="" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/govi/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Peter Kater" description="Kater is a stylish pianist and synthmeister who combines new age, jazz, folk, and world styles but with a different emphasis on each project.
- Nick Dedina" category="New Age Acoustic" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/peter-kater/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Deep Forest" description="Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez are Deep Forest, the French new age/dance crossover act who performed the 1993 international hit &quot;Sweet Lullaby.&quot; Skilled at composing futuristic tracks layered with samples of traditional world music from places like Africa, Mongolia, India and Hungary, this duo create glossy atmospheres infused with an air of mystery and fantasy.
- Jeff K." category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/deep-forest/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Steve Roach" description="Perhaps more concerned with creating sonic space than filling it, Steve Roach is one of those purposeful noise innovators who set out to construct expansive, wobbling fortresses of slowly built sound -- and succeeds.
- Nick Dedina" category="Ambient" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/steve-roach/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Ryuichi Sakamoto" description="This Japanese superstar helped create electronica with the Yellow Magic Orchestra, has won Academy Awards for his film soundtracks, releases Alterna-Dance albums, and records Avant-Garde classical suites.
- Nick Dedina" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/ryuichi-sakamoto/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Adiemus" description="Adiemus' other-worldly sounds are the result of composer/conductor Karl Jenkins' unmatched music-making abilities. (You may remember prog rocker Jenkins from the Soft Machine.) Although Adiemus' work recalls Enigma and Deep Forest upon initial listen, there is a soft seriousness and strong sense of aural sophistication that doesn't appear in many releases by those two Ethnic Fusion outfits. Essentially more &quot;new age,&quot; Adiemus blends orchestral tones with a team of ethnic vocalists in a definitive and unusual manner.
- Melissa Piazza" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/adiemus/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Lisa Gerrard" description="Otherworldly chanteuse Lisa Gerrard was Dead Can Dance's dark angel, and her solo career finds her floating in even more bleakly luxurious pools of sound. She still stirs an arty Goth cauldron of symphonic film scores, dramatic world music, and brimstone-scented Medieval motifs for over-eyelinered waifs to study -- like Eliza Doolittle dumping Professor Higgins for his Satanic Majesty.
- Nick Dedina" category="Medieval" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/lisa-gerrard/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Andreas Vollenweider" description="It's amazing how many fans from different backgrounds Swiss harpist Andreas Vollenweider has attracted -- a fact probably due to his entrancing combination of jazz, classical, world and new age playing. Early albums such as &lt;I&gt;Caverna Magica&lt;/I&gt; combine spacey, effect-laden noises with light Funk rhythms and Vollenweider's jazzy playing. His more recent works have continued to focus on ethereal new age compositions, along with a wide range of ethnic influences -- it's remarkable how similar Vollenweider's harp at times sounds like a Japanese koto. His unique sound is due in part to the innovative alterations he's made on his harp: by adding mutes, he can play in a precise, rhythmic style, and by electrifying the instrument, he's expanded its range of sounds.
- Jessy Terry" category="New Age Electronic" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/andreas-vollenweider/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Paul Horn" description="" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/paul-horn/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Bill Douglas" description="" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/bill-douglas/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Alex de Grassi &amp; Quique Cruz" description="Though they come from different hemispheres and distant musical realms, these two musicians converge on a metaphysical plane to produce brilliant music together. Recognized as one of the greatest fingerstyle steel-string guitar players, Alex de Grassi has recorded highly acclaimed records for new age label Windham Hill. On the other side of this musical equation, Chile native Quique Cruz plays the charango (a petite guitar), as well as folkloric drums, flutes and panpipes. The duo's original compositions are based on Andean rhythms transformed with a jazz swing or blues shuffle. The ensemble, which includes unobtrusive (yet precise) drumming, brushed cymbals, acoustic bass and superb piano work courtesy of Michael Bluestein, coalesces the strings and flutes of de Grassi and Cruz with subtlety and grace. As if in service of greater form, the musicians seem to leave their egos aside as they respond to one another with seriousness, joy and jazz-like spontaneity.
- Robert Leaver" category="New Age Acoustic" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/alex-de-grassi-quique-cruz/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="The Afro Celt Sound System" description="Formed by Simon Emmerson in 1992, the Afro-Celts got their start before the idea of fusing world music with dance beats had even entered most musicians'
consciousness -- and long before entire labels began to devote themselves to the sound. Core members James McNally, Iarla O Lionaird, Martin Russell, Johnny
Kalsi and N'Faly Koyate have brought in a number of big-name collaborators over the years, playing with notables like Robert Plant, Sinead O'Connor, Peter
Gabriel as well as a score of other, lesser-known but deeply talented musicians. They created the template for an entire sound, fusing cinematic textures with dance beats and improbably finding common ground between the musical traditions of West Africa and Ireland.
- Sarah Bardeen" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/the-afro-celt-sound-system/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Sacred Spirits" description="Noted for releasing a tune in 1996 that won acclaim among clubbing crowds, Sacred Spirits is responsible for interweaving Native American music elements and electronic and acoustic effects. Well-crafted compositions highlight ancient traditions.
- Melissa Piazza" category="Contemporary Instrumental" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/sacred-spirits/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Krishna Das" description="Krishna Das was born in the United States and traveled to India in the late 1960s with his mentor Ram Dass to study with Dass's guru, the Maharaj-ji. After years of study and devotional practice, Das returned to the States, determined to bring Indian religious chants to the American public. He founded the world music label Triloka Records and began releasing solo albums that mixed traditional sacred music with electronic flourishes.
- Sarah Bardeen" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/krishna-das/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Amethystium" description="" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/amethystium/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Riley Lee" description="Riley Lee is an Australian honored with the title &quot;dai shihan,&quot; or grand master of the shakuhachi, the flute traditionally played by Japanese monks. His gentle, evocative arrangements have intense, therapeutic power.
- Melissa Piazza" category="Meditation" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/riley-lee/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Bernie Williams" description="" category="Jazz Instrumental Pop" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/bernie-williams/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Nightnoise" description="A talented ensemble of eclectic musicians make up this distinctive Windham Hill act. Merging elements of Celtic music, classical and chamber jazz, Nightnoise composes expressive, soul-soothing tunes lightly brushed with Irish colors. The peaceful moods are concocted with masterful manipulations of synthesizers and acoustic instruments.
- Melissa Piazza" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/nightnoise/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Sheila Chandra" description="East Indian singer Sheila Chandra has an undeniably alluring voice that possesses the discipline of a singer trained in Indian classical vocal techniques. Since her emergence in the 1980s with U.K.-based band Monsoon (with whom she recorded the crossover raga hit &quot;Ever So Lonely&quot;), Chandra has successfully moved on to a solo career that's seen her collaborate with husband/producer Steve Coe to explore the frontiers of Indian Classical and Indian Pop fusion. Her evolution as an artist has coincided with the reduction of accompaniment on her recordings, to the point of her recording A Cappella pieces from time to time. Utilizing a technique called bols -- in which she imitates the percussive sound and patterns of the tabla drum -- Chandra creates hypnotic music with sophisticated, melodic embellishments and interwoven vocal overdubs. In the '90s, her association with Peter Gabriel and his Real World label brought her to the attention of a larger audience that has embraced her work with reverence.
- Robert Leaver" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/sheila-chandra/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Willie And Lobo" description="" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/willie-and-lobo/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Johnny Clegg" description="Clegg led an interracial group in South Africa during the closing (and most volatile) years of apartheid. He had global success with his upbeat, club-happy Afro and western pop -- the Police seem to have had almost as much influence on his sound as the music of his adopted African home. Although his lyrics have always touched on international themes, Clegg's career -- at least in the west -- has been hurt by the dismantling of the very system that helped make his music so unique.
- Nick Dedina" category="Afro-Pop" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/johnny-clegg/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Diane Arkenstone" description="" category="Contemporary Instrumental" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/diane-arkenstone/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Jonathan Goldman" description="" category="New Age Electronic" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/jonathan-goldman/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Michael Hoppe" description="Sultry flutes, cellos, pianos and other classical instruments create gentle waves of sonorities, married to romantic music, but prone to trysts with Celtic fusion and multimedia atmospheres.
- Jessy Terry" category="Contemporary Instrumental" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/michael-hoppe/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Cusco" description="" category="Contemporary Instrumental" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/cusco/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Chris Conway" description="" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/chris-conway-3/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="B-Tribe" description="" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/b-tribe/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Alabina" description="" category="Flamenco/Fado" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/alabina/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Kim Robertson" description="Robertson is a virtuoso of the Celtic harp who is one of the key players in new age's Solo Instrumental field. It took almost ten albums before she made her singing debut -- a puzzling decision on her part considering Robertson's warm, delicate voice.
- Chad Driscoll" category="Solo Instrumental" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/kim-robertson/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Conjure One" description="" category="New Age Electronic" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/conjure-one/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Big Blue Ball" description="More a collective of musicians than a typical band, Big Blue Ball dates back to the mid-1990s, when Peter Gabriel orchestrated week-long invitational sessions at his Real World Studios that brought in players from around the world. Given Gabriel's late-career interest in global music, the guests included heavy hitters of world music alongside those of western pop -- everyone from Natacha Atlas, Papa Wemba to Sinead O'Connor and Vernon Reid -- but Gabriel's closest ally was Welsh musician Karl Wallinger. Some years after the majority of the sessions were recorded, Gabriel called on Stephen Hague to sort out the pile of tape and iron out a collaborative LP to be released under the Big Blue Ball moniker. Since most of the sessions were taken from the mid and late '90s, the project has the optimistic sheen of the synthesized world pop fusions of that era, led by a group of fiery vocalists that includes Gabriel himself.
- Nate Cavalieri" category="World Pop" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/big-blue-ball/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Oscar Lopez" description="" category="Latin &amp; World Jazz" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/oscar-lopez/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Michael Brook" description="Michael Brook is an accomplished new age guitarist as well as a talented multi-instrumentalist. In collaboration with such contemporary composers as Brian Eno he has created world-fused, Ambient music often favoring Techno beats. His solo work continues with these themes, incorporating disconnected, meditative vocals.
- Mike McGuirk" category="Techno Tribal" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/michael-brook/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Euphoria" description="Smooth Trip Hop grooves feature whiny guitars with sensual blues vocals and layered lyrics in French and English. Intoxicating atmospheres sound like a steamy summer night in New Orleans." category="Ambient Dub" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/euphoria/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
<outline type="include" text="Douglas Spotted Eagle" description="Native American flautist Douglas Spotted Eagle boasts credits for various film and television features and shows, including &lt;I&gt;The X-Files&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;The Tracey Ullman Show&lt;/I&gt;. His own solo discography is nothing to sneeze at. Deeply moving, meditative compositions marry flutes with synthesizers, concocting spacious soundscapes fraught with emotion.
- Melissa Piazza" category="Ethnic Fusion" url="http://feeds.rhapsody.com/douglas-spotted-eagle/data.opml?rws=%2Fnew-age%2Fethnic-fusion%2Fartist-chart.opml" />
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