We always look forward to sequencing our "best of" collections. It's fun to find the thematic, visual or musical connections that they have as a group. This year's themes were...
Watch this music video, "Hear Me Now" by The Green Children, Marlow and Milla, a moving illustration of the success of microfinance in Bangladesh, which is lifting many out of...
(Brazil) Jair Oliveira is part of a generation, descendents of the great MPB artists, who are forging new sounds and original takes on the bedrock of Brazilian song. The son...
"The day before yesterday, the Devil tempted me...he wanted me to steal from someone else...I'm poor as a churchmouse." These days everyone is having hard times, and so...
(Belgium) We don't know how this one slipped by us -- it's not the latest video from the venerable world music pioneers Zap Mama, headed by Marie Daulnes, but it...
(UK/Gambia) Justin Adams has been straddling two worlds for years. As a rock n' roll and R & B player, and as a musician who has also carefully integrated both...
(Hungary) No, it's not the National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis, or the North American Pocketbike Racing Association. It's not an acronym at all, it's Napra, a terrific folk fusion band...
(Peru) Novalima is exactly that- a new take on Afro-Peruvian music. So while we can still hear the root of Coba Guarango as an incantation to the spirit of fire,...
Sweden's power folk trio are back, with their signature sound- tight ensemble playing, the soulful violin of Mikael Marin, intriguing chord inversions courtesy of Roger Tallroth, and the prizewinning playing...
(Sudan) Here is a simply stunning event and a stunning song. When Emmanuel Jal was twelve years old he trecked across the African Plain, fleeing his life of being a...
This is a traditional Serbian drinking song-- At least Goran Bregovic likes to drink to it. (His contracts specify supplies of alcohol for performance.) So what better place to perform...
(Indonesia) Rizaldi Siagian is a noted ethnomusicologist and television producer from Indonesia. In this moving video, he has composed the music and he is also singing. Indonesia has been plundered...
(Mexico) Hey who's the guy in the Devo hat? It's Mexican Institute of Sound's DJ and producer Camilo Lara. By day, Lara is the president of EMI Mexico and at...
(Brazil) The velvet voiced Lima is back, this time with a song of her own composition. "Vou Deixar" is a song about attraction, and it fairly drips with flirtation. It's...
