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Huun Huur Tu/Carmen Rizzo, Eternal (Electrofone Music/GreenWave Music) - 06/29/2009

Stone Ancestors, Forest Spirits, and Pink Floyd Across Fifteen Time Zones: Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Distill a New Sound for Tuva’s Soul on Eternal

Project Ahimsa, Global Lingo - 06/25/2009

Slumdog Mozarts and MCs: How Project Ahimsa Turns Beats into Hope for the World’s Poorest Kid Musicians on Global Lingo

Salaam - 06/24/2009

From Iraqi Maqam to Robert Johnson: Middle Eastern Band Salaam Creates a New American Sound

Granada Doaba (Gnawledge Records) - 06/23/2009

Pawn Shop Scavenging for the Roots of Flamenco Hip-Hop: Gnawledge Records Remixes the Legacy of Moorish Spain

Cheick Hamala Diabate, Ake Doni Doni (Grigri Discs) - 06/23/2009

The Old School Lobbyist, Griot Style:

Mali’s Cheick Hamala Diabate Holds Court in Washington, DC on Ake Doni Doni

Chase Latino Cultural Festival, 2009 - 06/10/2009

New York’s Beacon of the Diversity of Latino Arts:

The Chase Latino Cultural Festival Illuminates Icons of Pop and Tradition, Commissions Dance, and Unites an International Community

Watcha Clan, Diaspora Remixed (Piranha Musik) - 06/08/2009

PIRANHA Musik presents:
Watcha Clan, Diaspora Remixed.
Marseille 2 New York, London, Belgrade, Vienna...

Sunset Concerts, Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles) - 06/03/2009

Welcoming the Stranger, Gifting Music across Generations, and Investing in Culture:
Skirball Cultural Center’s Free Sunset Concerts Turn a Courtyard into a Magical Place of Global Understanding

Väsen, Väsen Street (NorthSide) - 06/01/2009

Wild-Eyed Farmers, Murder with a Nyckelharpa , and the Spirit Possession that Killed a Swarm of Wasps: How Väsen Took Swedish String Music Global

Tribecastan, Strange Cousin (Evergreene Music) - 05/25/2009

Traffic Jams, Zookeepers, and Strange Cousins:
Tribecastan Unleashes Uzbek Lutes, Pakistani Taxi Horns, and Six Foot Shepherd’s Pipes

Goran Bregovic, Alkohol (Wrasse Records) - 05/15/2009

The Alkohol of Goran Bregović and His Wedding & Funeral Band

Beyond the Pale, Postcards (Borealis Records) - 05/09/2009

Wish You Were…Where? Jewish-Balkan Twang Busts Boundaries on Beyond the Pale’s Postcards

Mariachi Classics, Mariachi Real De San Diego, (Mardi Gras Records) - 05/04/2009

Human Jukebox of the Revolution: Mariachi Real de San Diego Get the Party Started With Long-Lost Mexican Gems

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Rare Elements (5 Points Records) - 05/04/2009

The Divine on the Dancefloor, the Breath in the Beat: Sufi-Inspired Turkish Master Omar Faruk Tekbilek Remixed for Rare Elements

King Sunny Ade 2009 Tour - 04/28/2009

The Chairman’s Diplomatic Tour of a New America: Nigerian Legend King Sunny Ade Brings the Forty Minute Jam to U.S./Canadian Stages and Festivals, June/July 2009

The Shin, 2009 North American Tour - 04/20/2009

Sweet Georgia Sound: How The Shin Put the Groove Back in Old Caucasian Songs

Santero, El Hijo de Obatala (Siete Potencias Trading Co.) - 04/13/2009

Close Encounter of the Orisha Kind: Reggaeton’s Spirit Walker of Guatemala Transforms His Rough & Tumble Upbringing to Positive Rhymes for a New Generation

Santero Fights Fire(bombs) with Water on El Hijo de Obatala

Lily Storm, If I Had a Key to the Dawn (Songbat Records) - 04/13/2009

The Mountains Next Door: Lily Storm’s Soaring Tryst with the Village Sound

Inbar Bakal, Song of Songs (Electrofone Records) - 04/01/2009

The Ache and Longing of a New Yemenite Jewish Sound: Inbar Bakal Finds Her Voice on Song of Songs

Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara, Tell No Lies (Real World Records) - 03/25/2009

The Moxie of Electric Guitar Rock Meets the Grit of West African Spike Fiddle: Real World Records Releases Justin Adams’ and Juldeh Camara’s Tell No Lies

Ocote Soul Sounds, Coconut Rock (ESL Music) - 03/18/2009

The Catalysts of Coconut Rock: Ocote Soul Sounds’ Creative Mutations and Funky Beats

Hip Hop Hoodios, Carne Masada (Jazzheads) - 03/17/2009

Latino-Jewish Urban Collective Announces First-Ever ‘Reverse Madoff’ Digital Money Back Guarantee:

Carne Masada: Quite Possibly the Very Best of Hip Hop Hoodíos Released May 12, 2009

Federico Aubele, Amatoria (ESL Music) - 02/27/2009

The Taste of a First Kiss: The Smoky Tango and Sultry Boleros of Buenos Aires’ Federico Aubele’s Creative Songwriting

On Ka?a Davis, Seeds of Djuke (LiveWired Music) - 01/10/2009

Musical Nomads Taking Root: Guitarist On Ka’a Davis Builds a Home for Deep Black Grooves that Lead from Jazz Abstraction to Afrobeat

M. Nahadr, EclecticIsM (LiveWired Music) - 12/28/2008

The Soul of M.:
The Musical Identity
of White Black Oneness

Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, 2009 Tour - 12/18/2008

Brothers from Another Continent: Occidental Brothers Live the Highlife

Burnt Sugar, (LiveWired Music) - 11/17/2008

Conduction in the
Sweet Soundscapes of
Burnt Sugar
The Arkestra Chamber:

Dadaist Improvisers
Shapeshift from Funk,
Jazz, and Rock, to
Classical, Avant Garde, & the Middle Passage

Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity, Ancients Speak (LiveWired Music) - 11/12/2008

When Holy Ghost Guitar Meets Brazilian Spirits: Melvin Gibbs’ Elevated Entity Reunites the Diaspora on Ancients Speak

Kakande, Dununya (Jumbie Records) - 05/20/2008

When an Eight Hundred Year Tradition Moves to America: Griot-Driven Kakande at the Heart of NYC’s Thriving African Music Re-Invention