(Spain) Jairo Zavala aka DePedro is best known as a ringer and session man on guitar. He has tenured with Amparanoia, Spanish instrumental surfers Los Coronas and the Arizona-based rock...
(Czech Republic) In the past we have highlighted the Czech band Dva, whose specialty is singing in faux languages that are patterned after existing ones. Now here comes Cankisou, a...
(Sweden/Denmark) That irresistable Punjabi beat called bhangra has been steadily seducing club goers worldwide, and so it's not all that surprising that it has hit Scandinavia. The band Tummel, which...
(Senegal) "Fashionable one, you spend your day flitting about-- The hardships of rural life do not affect you. Because, little sister, you live the easy life. You go shopping in...
(Czech Republic) We loved this video the moment we saw it, and rushed to broadcast it as soon as the tape arrived a few months ago. But we also knew...
Cui Jian is a Beijing-based Korean Chinese singer-songwriter, trumpeter and guitarist. Affectionately called "Old Cui"(he was born August 2, 1961), he is considered to be a pioneer in Chinese rock...
(India) Nagore Sessions features three singers from Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Our viewers may remember them from their performance in the beautiful musical travelogue Lava Project shown on Link TV. The...
(Czech Republic) This one is so out it's in...and you don't need to speak Czech to know it. You may remember the fun of this band's first video, "Romano...
Although Deolinda's music gets its inspiration from Fado, the members have obviously cherry-picked those elements they wish to keep and those they do not: the strong female vocalist, but no...
(Mali) Amadou and Mariam are probably the most successful musical export ever to come out of Mali. The back story is terrific; they met at a school for the blind,...
(Colombia) This Cumbia-drenched track could not come from any place but Colombia. "Here comes Bomba Estereo with Champeta, reggae music, cumbia, and folklore, Come on, It's a...
"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...
The luminous Sara Tavares is back with a statement about the sanctuary she finds within herself. "A speck of inner light ablaze in the soul leads me on to...
(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...
(China) It took us over a year to get a broadcastable version of this video but it was worth it; it is both beautiful and timely. As farming people in...