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During a concert, the 70-year-old undisputed Queen of Calypso shares her extraordinary career with us. She is so totally immersed in her island's music that her life and thehistory of calypso music...

This DVD features an in-depth portrait of Michel Bras, one of France's greatest cooks. We taste 4 dishes, cinematographically describe what is felt, and then work through each dish's culinary...

In 1967, Tom Ze created the Tropicalia movement along with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. The movement called for both a new aesthetic and a new Brazil at a time when the country was under the...

2 films/DVDs that fill a void ! Feat. Pioneers of techno music, "Never Stop" highlights the deep roots of the creation, more than 30 years ago, by each of the African-American pioneers of techno...

In the 1930s Mike Disfarmer shot a long series of portraits of the townspeople in Heber Springs Arkansas. This recently excavated gallery of photographs is reminiscent of America's heartland as well...

A unique collection on French culinary art! Marseille inhabits Gerald Passedat, and Paul Lacoste's film shows this with affection and humor. Lacoste captures the way this renowned chef considers the...

N Japan, one cannot imagine any festivities without Taiko, drums whose deep tones give rhythm to popular emotions. In a performance brimming withpower and refinement, the Oedo Sukeroku Ensemble...

The director goes on a quest for a spectre, a spectre that haunts Jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer ' If his seminal body of work is now - rightfully so - fully recognized,...

Jajouka, a small village in the Rif mountains of northern Morocco. For over 2,000 years, magic fertility rites have been performed there, the rites of Pan, akin to the Roman Lupercales, along with...

Deben Bhattacharya spent his life on the road recording music in dozens of countries. By the mid-'80s he had more than 500 hours of field recordings had directed 23 films and had published 15 books...

Featured Artists: TIGRAN HAMASYAN: piano / JAN BANG : live sampling / EIVIND AARSET: guitar // IVAR GRYDELAND & ERIK HONORE : live remix -EIVIND AARSET "DREAM LOGIC"(Eivind Aarset: guitar / 2 drums /...

Namtchylak is an exceptional singer from the desert of Tuva, a small country lying on the border of Mongolia and Siberia. She has created a style combining the traditions of her nomadic past,...