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more »Never Trust A Hippy
By Adrian Sherwood, 2003
Never Trust A Hippy, is Adrian Sherwood's eclectic, compelling and lovingly crafted solo debut. The timin… read more »
more »Becoming A Cliché
By Adrian Sherwood, 2006
Where the first 'solo' album was mainly instrumental, Becoming A Cliche features an ever impressive range… read more »
more »Volume 3 : Further In Time
By Afro Celt Sound System, 2001
When Simon Emmerson began to piece together the Afro Celt Sound System in 1992 he had no idea where the j… read more »
more »Volume 2: Release
By Afro Celt Sound System, 2012
This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series. Real World Gold c… read more »
more »Volume 1 - Sound Magic
By Afro Celt Sound System, 2012
This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series. Real World Gold c… read more »
more »Capture
By Afro Celt Sound System, 2010
When Afro Celt Sound System burst onto the music scene some 15 years ago their impact was so instant, so … read more »
more »Walking On
By Ananda Shankar, 1999
When lightning hit the Big Room at Real World on the last day of recording we knew the music would be ele… read more »
more »Big Blue Ball
By Big Blue Ball, 2008
There is a dedicated website for Big Blue Ball with more information along with audio and video from the … read more »
more »Running Still
By Charlie Winston, 2012
"The question to ask is 'How am I unique? What can I do to be unique?' Remember that preciousness is not … read more »
more »In Your Hands
By Charlie Winston, 2009
'In Your Hands' has been described as "A modern day rock gospel song with influences of Nina Simone, Pet… read more »
more »Hobo
By Charlie Winston, 2009
Charlie distills his music to its raw essence, a hearty modern gumbo of blues-folk, straight-talking lyri… read more »
more »Black Rock
By Djivan Gasparyan & Michael Brook, 1998
With these recordings, Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook have fashioned a unique musical hybrid. The d… read more »
more »The Wild Field
By Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, 1991
This is an album of peasant songs from southern Russia, specific to an area known as "the wild field" bec… read more »
more »Rockers Meet Addis Uptown
By Dub Colossus, 2011
In 1978 "Uptown Top Ranking", written and performed by Jamaican girl duo Althea & Donna, topped the UK si… read more »
more »Return To Addis
By Dub Colossus, 2009
The EP, 'Return To Addis', features all unheard material: two new tracks and two remixes from the album '… read more »
more »Dub Me Tender Vol 1 + 2
By Dub Colossus, 2012
Following the critical success of Dub Colossus? second album, "Addis Through the Looking Glass" (March 20… read more »
more »Dub Colossus EP
By Dub Colossus, 2008
The first taste of an extraordinary collaboration between contemporary Ethiopian artists and Dubulah (aka… read more »
more »Addis Through The Looking Glass
By Dub Colossus, 2011
"The aim", says Nick Page, the musician and producer best-known as Dubulah, also founding member of Trans… read more »
more »A Town Called Addis
By Dub Colossus, 2008
This project brings together an extraordinary but little known African musical heritage, a labour of love… read more »
more »My Songs And A Poem
By Estrella Morente, 2002
"One of our intentions was to keep the flavour of classic flamenco, while imbuing this 'deep song' (cante… read more »
more »The Seven Steps to Mercy
By Iarla Ó Lionáird, 1997
Today, Iarla Ó Lionáird is the most exciting and innovative performer of Irish traditional unaccompanied … read more »
more »Invisible Fields
By Iarla Ó Lionáird, 2005
"This album was always going to be different," he says. "I did it in my own house, with a tight team that… read more »
more »I Could Read The Sky
By Iarla Ó Lionáird, 2000
Music written for and inspired by the film of the same name. An old man, at the end of his life, remembe… read more »
more »Foxlight
By Iarla Ó Lionáird, 2011
For his third solo album - Foxlight - the acclaimed singer Iarla O Lionaird delivers an impassioned and s… read more »
more »Way Down Below Buffalo Hell
By Jam Nation, 1993
In August 1992, the production and remix team of Mark Rutherford and John Gosling were asked by Peter Gab… read more »
more »Untold Things
By Jocelyn Pook, 2001
"I wanted this new record to reflect the live work I've been doing for the last couple of years," says th… read more »
more »We Are Three
By Joi, 2000
Joi follow their critically acclaimed debut album, 'One and One is One' with the release of a new album, … read more »
more »One and One is One
By Joi, 1999
"...colours a thick flow of dance rhythms with vocal and instrumental effects reflecting...the excitement… read more »
more »Tell No Lies
By Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, 2009
"Tell No Lies" is the new sound of Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara. The sound of a nation with no borders, … read more »
more »Trance Sessions
By Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara , 2010
Following many months of touring , taking their raw afro-blues to increasingly enthusiastic audiences, J… read more »
more »Rain of Blessings
By Lama Gyurme, 2012
This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series. Real World Gold c… read more »
more »Gula Gula
By Mari Boine, 1990
In the Arctic part of Europe, so far north that it is often missing from weather maps on television, live… read more »
more »Roots Controller
By Misty in Roots, 2002
REJOICE! The return of Misty In Roots to the recording studio with 'Roots Controller' marks twelve years … read more »
more »Real Sugar
By Paban Das Baul and Sam Mills, 1997
Paban Das Baul was born in 1961 in the village of Mohammedpur in the district of Murshidabad in West Beng… read more »
more »Passion
By Peter Gabriel, 1989
Peter Gabriel's remarkable musical collage for Scorsese's 'The Last Temptation of Christ', 1990 Grammy Aw… read more »
more »New Blood
By Peter Gabriel, 2011
Following last year's 'Scratch My Back' album, where Peter Gabriel reinterpreted a diverse selection of o… read more »
more »Quick Look
By Pina, 2002
Songwriters have often travelled far and wide in search of inspiration. But the crazy journey undertaken … read more »
more »Guess You Got It
By Pina, 2005
Guess You Got It - which was issued on PRE, a new Real World imprint - is crammed with songs that already… read more »
more »Portico Quartet
By Portico Quartet, 2012
Mercury nominated East Londoners release their third, self-titled, album. Portico Quartet have expande… read more »
more »Line
By Portico Quartet, 2009
Fresh from enthusiastic reception at BBC radio 1, Portico Quartet's glorious 'Line' with its journey fro… read more »
more »Knee-Deep In The North Sea
By Portico Quartet, 2011
In 2007 Portico Quartet moved from busking on the South Bank in London to a recording studio and, with th… read more »
more »Isla
By Portico Quartet, 2009
Isla is a thoughtful and richly tuneful collection of nine pieces recorded by producer John Leckie at Abb… read more »
more »City of Glass LV Remix / Window Seat Will Ward (Circle Traps) Remix
By Portico Quartet, 2012
Portico Quartet's second single from their recently released self-titled album, features mixes of two s… read more »
more »The Bairns
By Rachel Unthank and The Winterset, 2008
Described as "a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece," The Bairns is already a classic. With… read more »
more »Weaving My Ancestors' Voices
By Sheila Chandra, 1992
Sheila Chandra is the only Asian singer to have had mainstream chart success in the UK in the 1980s. 'Eve… read more »
more »The Zen Kiss
By Sheila Chandra, 1994
An extraordinary exploration of vocal power and potential. "With a dexterous tonal range that's as brigh… read more »
more »Moonsung
By Sheila Chandra, 2012
This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series. Real World Gold c… read more »
more »ABoneCroneDrone
By Sheila Chandra, 1996
This album, the third in the trilogy for Real World, gives you the fullest access possible to Chandra's i… read more »
more »Hotel Juicy Parlour
By Sizer Barker, 2004
Liverpool, late spring, 1996. Carl Brown is walking through a cemetery with a friend, a dog and a headful… read more »
more »Lost Souls
By Spaccanapoli, 2000
From the streets of Naples, Spaccanapoli are the inheritors of a tradition that has existed for centuries… read more »
more »Kalashnik Love
By Speed Caravan, 2009
"I've always had this rage that I need to express." Mehdi Haddab sits back, rests his electric oud on his… read more »
more »Lightbox
By Spiro, 2009
Lightbox is Spiro's first album for Real World Records - an extraordinarily stirring record. Recorded ove… read more »
more »Kaleidophonica
By Spiro, 2012
Kaleidophonica is the follow-up to Spiro's much-praised Real World album Lightbox, but it's different, sa… read more »
more »Tani Tana
By State of Bengal Vs Paban Das Paul, 2004
'Tana Tani' plunges Paban into the dub-heavy melee of the British Asian breakbeat scene, where his ecstat… read more »
more »The Road To Damascus
By Syriana, 2010
The Road to Damascus begins in London, when Nick "Dubulah" Page and Syrian Qanun player, Abdullah Chhadeh… read more »
more »Al Bidayeh
By Syriana, 2010
It is said that Damascus - old Damascus, the 7,000-year-old capital of Syria - is a bit like a veiled wom… read more »
more »A Life In Film
By Syriana, 2011
Syriana - A Life in Film Vinyl features 4 exclusive remixed tracks, 1 new track Ipiros, and 2 tracks from… read more »
more »Peoples Colony No 1
By Temple Of Sound, 2001
"The essence of a collaboration is people... what drives them, their dreams, aspirations, their daily rhy… read more »
more »S'amore 'e mama
By Tenores di Bitti, 1996
One of the most fascinating traditional polyphonic quartets of the Mediterranean Sea - straight from the … read more »
more »Admission
By The Black Swan Effect, 2010
"Just when you think you've heard it all before, along comes an album that demands the hairs on the back … read more »
more »The Imagined Village
By The Imagined Village, 2012
This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series. Real World Gold c… read more »
more »Terem
By The Terem Quartet, 1992
The Terem Quartet is unique. As classically trained musicians, their technique and expertise are astonish… read more »
more »Classical
By The Terem Quartet, 1994
More dazzling reinterpretations from the strings of the St Petersburg quartet - classical themes wittily … read more »
more »Utopia
By Tom Kerstens' G Plus Ensemble, 2010
'Utopia' is the debut recording of Tom Kerstens with his newly formed G Plus Ensemble. The group was crea… read more »
more »Table Songs of Georgia
By Tsinandali Choir, 1993
Table songs are the musical expression of the Georgian cult of wine, and the Tsinandali Choir are famous … read more »
more »Miero
By Värttinä, 2006
If Värttinä had never recorded another album after 'iki' in 2003 their achievement would have been moment… read more »
more »Voices of the Real World
By Various Artists, 2000
"Of all the sounds that we hear, human beings have the broadest range of responses to the voice. From the… read more »
more »The Mahabharata
By Various Artists, 1990
A monumental collaboration of international talent featuring musicians from Iran, Turkey, Japan, Denmark,… read more »
more »The Gathering
By Various Artists, 1997
This album was recorded live in Cork at Éigse Na Laoi 1995: The Gathering. Like good music which does not… read more »
more »Sounds Of Music
By Various Artists, 2009
This compilation features hidden gems from the Real World Records catalogue to accompany the book of phot… read more »
more »Plus from Us
By Various Artists, 1993
"After the music for 'The Last Temptation of Christ' was completed and released under the name 'Passion',… read more »
more »Music At Matt Molloy's
By Various Artists, 1992
Some of Ireland's finest traditional musicians join legendary Chieftains' flute player Matt Molloy and gu… read more »
more »Long Way Down
By Various Artists, 2007
At Real World, we were excited at the prospect of working on Long Way Down with Ewan and Charley. We had … read more »
more »Lament
By Various Artists, 1992
A collection of beautiful and haunting Irish laments. All pieces are solo performances, recorded especial… read more »
more »Gifted
By Various Artists, 2000
Beautiful, sensual songs by nine extraordinary women singers including Sheila Chandra, Susana Baca, Sushe… read more »
more »Arcane
By Various Artists, 1994
The joined forces of Simon Jeffes, Nigel Kennedy, Andy Sheppard, Nana Vasconcelos, Jane Siberry, Alex Gif… read more »
more »A Week or Two in the Real World
By Various Artists, 1994
more »A Week in the Real World (Part 1)
By Various Artists, 1992
In August 1991 Real World Studios opened its doors to over 75 artists from 20 countries for a unique reco… read more »
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