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25 Home Intro Real World 25 3CD Box Real World Tales Video Gallery Contact Home Intro Real World 25 3CD Box Real World Tales Video Gallery Contact Real World 25 25 Years of Musical Discovery Introducing Real World 25 Real World 25 3CD Box [Released 29th September 2014] Condensing 25 years of history onto three CDs was always going to be an impossible task; we knew we would only ever skim the surface of the extensive range of wonderful music we have been so lucky to encounter. But here goes... read the full Real World 25 story . Order Real World 25: Disc 1 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Mustt Mustt Maryam Mursal Kufilaw Joi Fingers Little Axe If I Had My Way The Blind Boys of Alabama Run on for a Long Time Peter Gabriel The Feeling Begins Ayub Ogada Kothbiro Jocelyn Pook Dionysus Hukwe Zawose Sisitizo La Amani Duniani Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila Kipenda Roho Adrian Sherwood No Dog Jazz Dub Colossus Guragigna Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores La Sombra Negra The Imagined Village Cold Haily Rainy Night Iarla Ó Lionáird Glistening Fields Lama Gyurme and Jean-Philippe Rykiel Offering Chant (Unplugged) Disc 2 Pape & Cheikh Mariama Daúde Muito Quente Los De Abajo Resistencia Toumast Innulamane Farafina Dounounia Djivan Gasparyan & Michael Brook Take My Heart Joji Hirota Kokiriko Melody Mara! With Martenitsa Choir To My First Love Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble Utopia Mamer Mountain Wind Värttinä Valhe/The Lie Tenores Di Bitti T’amo Thomas Mapfumo Marudzi Nemarudzi (Different Races) The Ananda Shankar Experience & State of Bengal Streets of Calcutta Syriana Al Araby Guo Yue White Kite The Creole Choir of Cuba Fey Oh Di Nou Disc 3 Joseph Arthur In The Sun Daby Touré Iris Sevara Nazarkhan Yol Bolsin Afro Celt Sound System Release Portico Quartet Line Yungchen Lhamo Happiness Is… Spiro The City and the Stars Martyn Bennett Move JuJu Night Walk Charlie Winston In Your Hands Big Blue Ball altus silva Geoffrey Oryema Land of Anaka Sheila Chandra Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook Sweet Pain Papa Wemba Awa Y’okeyi Real World Tales We asked musicians, producers, engineers, managers, media, photographers and artists for anecdotes, first impressions, amusing stories, curious encounters, unexpected meetings, hazy memories... and these are their Real World Tales. Angel Romero (World Music Central) Angel Romero (World Music Central) During the past 25 years, Real World Records has released time after time top of the line world musi... Read More Alan James (Manager, 9Bach & Spiro) Alan James (Manager, 9Bach & Spiro) The architecture and landscape is unsurpassed for creativity, I wish it really was the real world. L... Read More Kerry Clarke (Artistic Director, Calgary... Kerry Clarke (Artistic Director, Calgary... We’ve been honoured to program many Real World Records over our festival’s 35 year history, includin... Read More John Diliberto (Echoes radio) John Diliberto (Echoes radio) Real World Records launched the same year as Echoes and the music they’ve released has been part o... Read More Ian Anderson (fRoots Magazine) Ian Anderson (fRoots Magazine) Hey, it’s my lawn sound track! Two of my most revelatory and memorable experiences from 1985 in the ... Read More Charles Driebe (Manager, The Blind Boys ... Charles Driebe (Manager, The Blind Boys ... I recall staying at the cottage at Real World once and, due to the time change from the US, waking u... Read More Spiro (musicians) Spiro (musicians) We’d love to say we’d had the usual Spiro mishaps at Real World (Jase falling in the lake and gettin... Read More Justin Adams (musician & producer) Justin Adams (musician & producer) Sometime in 1991 I found myself in Surreal World - picture postcard English countryside, and a labyr... Read More Nick Page [Dubulah] (musician and produc... Nick Page [Dubulah] (musician and produc... I remember arriving at Real World Recording Week for the first time in 1994 and being impressed by h... Read More John Hollis (producer & manager) John Hollis (producer & manager) It was December 1987. The studios hadn’t yet fully opened, the newly built facility was a tempting n... Read More Russell Mills’ tale (Artist) Russell Mills’ tale (Artist) Russell Mills’ work features on album covers Mustt Mustt, Love Songs and Devotional Songs I’d long... Read More Jo Frost’s tale (Songlines editor) Jo Frost’s tale (Songlines editor) It was 1993 and I had just graduated and moved to France, where I started listening to FIP and other... Read More Kevin Killen’s tale (producer ... Kevin Killen’s tale (producer ... When we drove onto the property, one immediately was taken by the size and grandeur of the main mill... Read More Jonathan Romney’s tale Jonathan Romney’s tale On an August afternoon in Box, Wiltshire, there’s a spot on the lawn where if you position yoursel... Read More Joji Hirota’s tale (musician) Joji Hirota’s tale (musician) One day, probably the first day of Real World Recording Week, when I was relaxing in the Green Room ... Read More Betto Arcos’s tale (Global Village... Betto Arcos’s tale (Global Village... The first Real World album I held in my hands was Orquesta Revé’s La Explosión del Momento. As i... Read More Sheila Chandra’s tale (singer) Sheila Chandra’s tale (singer) I only just got myself invited to the first Real World recording week. I’d approached Real World a... Read More Michael Brook’s tale (producer) Michael Brook’s tale (producer) One thing I learned about working with Nusrat was that he was very interested in experimenting and c... Read More Jean-Michel Reusser’s tale (produc... Jean-Michel Reusser’s tale (produc... It was an effortless and humbling exchange... It’s about 15 years ago but this is how it happened ... Read More Joseph Arthur’s tale (musician) Joseph Arthur’s tale (musician) Real World wants me to write a note or paragraph about its significance to me but the truth is, I co... Read More Garry Mouat’s tale (designer) Garry Mouat’s tale (designer) Peter had a very strong vision for the direction that the Real World label should take - for how the... Read More Video Videos from the archive Joi – Asian Vibes Music video Daby Touré – Dendecuba Music video Yungchen Lhamo – Happiness Is… Music video Afro Celt Sound System – Live in London (2001) Live JuJu – Djanfa Moja Live, Music video Joseph Arthur – Chemical Music video Joseph Arthur – In The Sun Music video Adrian Sherwood – Boogaloo (Drowning not raving mix) Live Lama Gyurme & Jean-Philippe Rykiel – Rain of Blessings (An Introduction) Promo Mamer – Eagle (Album Promo) Promo The Creole Choir of Cuba – Santiman (Album Promo) Promo JuJu – Nightwalk Music video Sheila Chandra – Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean (Live at WOMAD) Live Spiro – The City and the Stars Live, Music video Portico Quartet – Line (Take 5 at Abbey Road) Live Gallery Photos from the archive Follow us Connect with Real World Records to get the latest news as it happens. Join the Conversation Follow us on Twitter Join Our Circle View Exclusive Videos Real World Records Get in touch with us ! 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