Very best in world music - recommendations?

- "Fancha, Criolina", Cape Verde (Tinder Records)
- "Basia, Time and Tide" (Epic)
- "Mira Zakai, Unaccompanied", a capella (Ima Records)
- "Cesaria Evorda, Distio De Bilata", made in France (?)
- "Misia, Ritual", (Erato)
- "The Astrud Gilberto Album", (Verve Records)
- "Astrud Gilberto -w- Turrentine", (CBS)

If not into older popular music the last two may be too corny for you. She has a beautiful voice (think Nico and early Marianne Faithful), plus first rate musicans backing her up.

All of these are on CD (you did not specify).

PS:

You might also try searching for music of Basque origin (both old and contemporary).

I cannot locate these right now (stored a lot of our CD's in boxes), so no titles.

We have a double CD (modern Basque) that guy's @ the local audio shops used to drool over when I brought it in (Kepa-something, I think).

Thanks guys,.. just... while most of the world music is good, I'm looking for rare recordings (yes, digital) that could be considered as 'excellent' among those good ones.

Here is a link to some world style:

http://www.echoes.org/essgenres.html

Getz/Gilberto 1 and 2 (Verve)
Bebel Gilberto- Tanto Tempo