Real World Records is a British

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...

specializing in world music. It was founded in 1989 by English musician

Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched ...

and original members of WOMAD. A majority of the works released on Real World Records feature music recorded at

Real World Studios Real World Studios is a residential recording studio complex founded by Peter Gabriel and situated in the village of Box, Wiltshire, England, near to the city of Bath. It is closely associated with the Real World Records record label, Real Wor ...

, in

Box, Wiltshire Box is a large village and civil parish within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Wiltshire, England, about west of Corsham and northeast of Bath. Box also falls in the easternmost part of the Avon Green Belt. Besides the vill ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

History

In 1999, the label had sold over 3 million records worldwide and released 90 albums. In 2015, it had reached the mark of over 200 albums.

Artists

Afro Celt Sound System Afro Celt Sound System is a British musical group who fuse electronic music with traditional Gaelic and West African music. Afro Celt Sound System was formed in 1995 by producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson, and feature a wide range of guest artists. ...

Ashkhabad Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies ...

Ayub Ogada Job Seda (1956 – 1 February 2019), better known as Ayub Ogada, was a Kenyan singer. He was a singer favoring the nyatiti (an eight-stringed lyre with its origins credited to the Luo, a tribe in Nyanza Kenya) as his characteristic instrument. H ...

* Bernard Kabanda *

Big Blue Ball ''Big Blue Ball'' is an album by multiple artists which "grew from 3 recording weeks" at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the summers of 1991, 1992, and 1995. It is Peter Gabriel's fourteenth album project overall. In production for more ...

Charlie Winston Charlie Winston Gleave, better known as Charlie Winston, is an English singer-songwriter based in the South of France. Winston has so far had his most significant commercial success in France. Music career Early career Winston played bass guit ...

Creole Choir of Cuba The Creole Choir of Cuba is a Cuban musical group. Its members are Rogelio Torriente, Fidel Miranda, Teresita Miranda, Marcelo Luis, Dalio Vital, Emilia Diaz Chavez, Yordanka Fajardo, Irian Montejo, Marina Fernandes and Yara Diaz. The group is sign ...

Dengue Fever Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms typically begin three to fourteen days after infection. These may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characterist ...

* Farafina * Fatala * Geoffrey Oryema * Guo Brothers * Hoba Hoba Spirit * Johnny Kalsi * Joi * Joseph Arthur * Les Amazones d'Afrique *

Little Axe Skip McDonald (born Bernard Alexander, September 1949)Allmusic biography/ref> is an American musician who also performs under the stage name Little Axe. Career Early career Grounded in blues music learned from his father, a steel worker who p ...

* Mamer * Maryam Mursal * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * Ozomatli *

Paban Das Baul Paban Das Baul (born 1961) is a noted Baul singer and musician from India, who also plays a ''dubki'', a small tambourine and sometimes an ''ektara'' as an accompaniment. He is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international musi ...

Pan-African Orchestra The Pan-African Orchestra (PAO) is an orchestra using indigenous African traditions and instruments. It was founded as a 48-piece ensemble in 1988 in Accra, Ghana, by Nana Danso Abiam. Abiam died in a motor accident in Accra on 24 December 2014, in ...

Papa Wemba Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba (14 June 1949 – 24 April 2016), known professionally as Papa Wemba (), was a Congolese singer and musician who played Congolese rumba, soukous, and ndombolo. Dubbed the "King of Rumba Rock", he was one of the ...

Portico Quartet Portico Quartet are an instrumental band from London, UK. They are known for their use of the hang, a modern percussion instrument. Their debut album, ''Knee-Deep in the North Sea'', was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize and was '' Time Out� ...

* Rupert Hine *

Samuel Yirga Samuel Yirga is an Ethiopian musician and composer signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World Records. Overview At the age of 16, Samuel was accepted into Yared School of Music in Addis Ababa. He was later dismissed for his tendency to experiment and h ...

Sheila Chandra Sheila Chandra (born 14 March 1965) is a retired English pop singer of Indian descent. She is no longer able to perform, as the result of burning mouth syndrome which she has had since 2010. Indian–Western pop fusion period Sheila Chandra wa ...

Sevara Nazarkhan Sevara Nazarkhan ( uz, Sevara Nazarxon, Севара Назархон) is an Uzbek singer, songwriter, and musician. Her musical style incorporates Uzbek folk and contemporary music. Nazarkhan has achieved worldwide fame and has collaborated wi ...

* Spiro * The Blind Boys of Alabama *

The Imagined Village The Imagined Village is a folk music project founded by Simon Emmerson of Afro Celt Sound System. It is intended to produce modern folk music that represented modern multiculturalism in the United Kingdom and as such, featured musicians from a ...

U. Srinivas Uppalapu Srinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was an Indian mandolin player in Carnatic classical music and composer. Because he was a child prodigy, he was sometimes called the Mozart of classical Indian music. He was awarded the ...

Värttinä Värttinä (, meaning "spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in the ...

Yungchen Lhamo Yungchen Lhamo (Tibetan: དབྱངས་ཅན་ལྷ་མོ, ''lhamo'' meaning "goddess of song") is a Tibetan singer-songwriter living in the United States. She won the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album in 1995 and was then signed ...

Partial discography

*''ABoneCroneDrone'', Sheila Chandra, 1996 *''

Among Brothers ''Among Brothers'' is a World album released in 2003 by Algerian composer and singer-songwriter Abderrahmane Abdelli. The album was released by Real World Records. Track listing # "Amazine Introduction" – 1:34 # "Amazine (Moonlight)" – 6:0 ...

'', Abderrahmane Abdelli, 2003 *''

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'', The Blind Boys of Alabama, 2005 *''

Beat the Border ''Beat the Border'' is the second album by the Ugandan musician Geoffrey Oryema, released in 1993. Oryema supported the album by playing the 1993 WOMAD Festival. Production The album was produced by David Bottrill and Bob Ezrin. Oryema sang in Ac ...

'', Geoffrey Oryema, 1993 *''

'', various artists, 2008 (recorded 1991, 1992, 1995) *''

Big City Secrets ''Big City Secrets'' is the first studio album by American singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on March 11, 1997. Track listing Personnel Musicians * Joseph Arthur – guitar (1–5, 7–9, 11, 12), vocals, harm ...

'', Joseph Arthur, 1997 *''Black Rock'',

Djivan Gasparyan Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan; hy, Ջիվան Գասպարյան, ; October 12, 1928 – July 6, 2021) was an Armenian musician and composer. He played the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gaspary ...

& Michael Brook, 1998 *''Coming Home'', Yungchen Lhamo, 1998 *''Djabote'',

Doudou Ndiaye Rose Doudou Ndiaye Rose (born Mamadou Ndiaye; 28 July 1930 – 19 August 2015) was a Senegalese drummer, composer and band leader, and was the recognized modern master of Senegal's traditional drum, the sabar. He was the father of a musical dynasty t ...

, 1992 *''

Emotion Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition. ...

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, 1995 *''En Mana Kuoyo'',

, 1993 *''Espace'', Tama, 2002 *''Higher Ground'', The Blind Boys of Alabama, with Robert Randolph and the Family Band, and special guest Ben Harper, 2002 *''In Your Hands'', Charlie Winston, 2009 *''Le Voyageur'', Papa Wemba *''My Songs and a Poem'',

Estrella Morente Estrella Morente (Estrella de la Aurora Morente Carbonell) is a Spanish flamenco singer. She was born on 14 August 1980 in Las Gabias, Granada in southern Spain. She is the daughter of flamenco singer Enrique Morente and dancer Aurora Carbonell. ...

, 2001 *''

Mustt Mustt ''Mustt Mustt'' is the first Qawwali fusion album collaboration between singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and guitarist and producer Michael Brook, although the album itself is credited purely to Khan. It was rock musician Peter Gabriel who suggested ...

'', Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook, 1990 *'' Night Song'', Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook, 1995 *''Night to Night'', Geoffrey Oryema, 1996 *''

Pod Pod or POD may refer to: Biology * Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant * Husk or pod of a legume * Pod of whales or other marine mammals * "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy Electronics and computing * Proper ort ...

'', Afro Celt Sound System, 2004 *''Plus from US'', 1993 *''Quick Look'', Pina, 2002 *''Rama Sreerama'',

, 1994 *''Real Sugar'', Paban Das Baul & Sam Mills, 1997 *''Sampradaya'', Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, with

Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma may refer to: *Rahul Sharma (actor), Indian actor *Rahul Sharma (Gujarat police), Indian police officer *Rahul Sharma (Hong Kong cricketer) (born 1960), Hong Kong cricketer *Rahul Sharma (cricketer, born 1986), Indian cricketer *Rahul S ...

Shafaat Ahmed Khan Ustad Shafaat Ahmed Khan (20 May 1954 – 24 July 2005) New Delhi, India, was one of the leading tabla maestros in the field of Hindustani classical music. Shafaat Ahmed Khan came from the "Dilli Gharana" (Delhi gharana) and was the son an ...

& Manorama Sharma, 1999 *''Serious Tam'',

Telek ''Telek'' is a science fiction novella about telekinesis by American author Jack Vance. It was first published in the January 1952 issue of '' Astounding Science Fiction''. Plot summary In the near future, humanity is divided into two groups: ...

, 2000 *''Sezoni'', Mara! with Martenitsa Choir, 1999 (original release on Rufus Records, 1997) *''

Songs for the Poor Man ''Songs for the Poor Man'' is the first studio album and second album overall by Tanzanian soukous musician Remmy Ongala and his band Orchestre Super Matimila, released in 1989 on Real World Records. The album follows Ongala's acclaimed appearan ...

'',

Remmy Ongala Ramazani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala (10 February 1947 – 13 December 2010) was a Tanzanian guitarist and singer. Ongala was born in Kindu near the Tanzanian border, in what was the Belgian Congo at the time, and now is the Democratic Republic of the C ...

, 1989 *''The Journey'', Maryam Mursal, 1998 *''The Last Prophet'', Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party, 1994 *''The Truth (Ny Marina)'', The Justin Vali Trio, 1995 *''The Zen Kiss'', Sheila Chandra, 1994 *''Tibet, Tibet'',

, 1996 *''

Trance Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the dir ...

'', Hassan Hakmoun and Zahar, 1993 *''Untold Things'',

Jocelyn Pook Jocelyn Pook (, rhyming with "book"; born 14 February 1960) is an English composer and viola player. She is known for her scores for many films, including ''Eyes Wide Shut'', ''The Merchant of Venice'' and '' The Wife''. Education Pook gradua ...

, 2001 *'' Volume 2: Release'', Afro Celt Sound System, 1999 *'' Volume 3: Further in Time'', Afro Celt Sound System, 2001 *''Weaving My Ancestor's Voices'' Sheila Chandra, 1992 *''Yo‘l Bo‘lsin'',

, 2003

References

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