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Asha Bhosle
Yun Na Thi
Aabshaar-E-Ghazal
CBS
Aabshaar-E-Ghazal is a ghazal album by legendary Indian singers Asha Bhosle and Hariharan. It was released in the year 1985. The album featured 8 songs, all of them composed by Hariharan and sung by Asha Bhosle (including 2 duets with Hariharan). - wiki
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Asha Bhosle
Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana
Don
Silva Screen
1978
Music by Kalyanji Anandji. The original film Don was written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar), directed by Chandra Barot, and starred Amitabh Bachchan in the title role. Khan and Akhtar reportedly based the character on real life criminal Charles Sobhraj (with the 1986 Malayalam remake explicitly naming itself Shobhraj). - wiki
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Asha Bhosle
Aaj Ki Raat
Various Artists: Golden Voices From The Silver Screen Volume 3
GlobeStyle
From Anamika, a 1973 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Raghunath Jalani, and starring Sanjeev Kumar with Jaya Bhaduri. - wiki • For more Asha Bhosle check out Gary Sullivan's three hour tribute on his WFMU Give the Drummer Radio stream show Bodega Pop, archived here.
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Sanam
Sayl Damei
Sametou Sawtan
Constellation
Sanam s a Beirut-based sextet that merges psych/kraut, improv/skronk, electronics, goth, and jazz elements with traditional Egyptian song and modern Arabic poetry in a compelling brew of widescreen hybrid avant-rock. - label
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0:19:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Aris San
Dam Dam
Memorial Collection
NMC
Aris San (19 January 1940 – 25 July 1992) was a Greek-Israeli singer and nightclub owner who popularized Greek music and based in Israel in the late 1950s and 1960s. - wiki
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Forshpil
Bay A Taykhlele
Tsvey
Borscht Beat
2020
Forshpil was founded over 15 years ago in Riga, Latvia by charismatic singer Sasha Lurje and multi-instrumentalist Ilya Shneyveys. Together with violinist Mitia Khramtsov, guitarist Roman Shinder and drummer Zheka Lizin (all from St. Petersburg, Russia), they continue to research, perform and teach traditional Yiddish and East-European culture, discovering rare songs in old manuscripts and field recordings. - home page
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Suistamon Sähkö
Harva Pystyy
Lunta Tupaan
Playground Music Oy
Suistamon Sähkö, a band known for its open-minded approach and exploration to music, has released three albums: Suistamon Sähkö (2015), Etkot, pectopah ja etnoteknoa (2018) and Varokaa! Hengenvaara (2021), with the fourth album Lunta tupaan arriving on April 10th 2026. - press release
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Shubiao Quartet
Khurkhii Igil Minuu
Ayalal
Mongolian band based in Grenoble, France. “Ayalal” (meaning “journey” in Mongolian) is a 12-track album blending traditional Mongolian throat singing (khöömii) and instruments with contemporary arrangements and production. - press release
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Electric Rose Featuring Sarah Myerson and Ilya Shneyveys
Idy, Donyu
The Rose Cohen Experience
Borscht Beat
GIG: Tues April 21 Concert & Tantshoyz! 8pm Margot Leverett Band w/Ilya Shneyveys, Pete Rushefsky & Aaron Alexander
8:45 Tantshoyz – Sarah Myerson Dance Leader w/Michael Winograd, Ilya Shneyveys, Margot Leverett, Pete Rushefsky & more @ Hudson Yards Synagogue. Sarah Myerson leads Yiddish dance at weddings and other events, and performs as a multi-instrumentalist in a variety of musical settings. She also works in related folk music and dance worlds (eg Balkan). - press release
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Nuevos Ríos (Reco Reco y Canalon de Timbiqui con Nidia Gongora)
Mi Bombo
Nuevos Ríos
ZZK
ZZK Records presents Nuevos Ríos: the new intercultural project born from the meeting of Colombia’s iconic Canalón de Timbiquí, led by the unmistakable voice of Nidia Góngora (solo artist in her own right and previous collaborator with Quantic, Ondatrópica, The Bongo Hop), and the Toulouse-based trio Reco Reco, known for their electronic explorations of trance-driven rhythms from South America and beyond. - press release
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Buraka Som Sistema
Puro Mambo
Various Artists: A Lisbon Club Story
Enchufada
Returning with their first new music in 12 years are Enchufada’s debut signing Buraka Som Sistema, with Puro Mambo - an Angolan slang term which translates loosely as "the real deal" and is a syncopated Afro-house track with a killer breakdown. - press release
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Azuka Moweta & his Anioma Brothers Band of Africa
Kenechukwu
Kenechukwu
Odogwu Entertainment + Palenque Records
Azuka Moweta is back again with a new seven track album titled: Kenechukwu. This album is a highlife offering poured straight from the soul of Asaba—an album that turns gratitude into rhythm and reverence into dance. The album’s title track “Kenechukwu,” opens with soaring thanks to the Creator who “giveth life,” its Ekobe pulse and electric guitar weaving a hymn that’s hard to sit still for. - press release
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Balu
Borumba Song
Borumba
Absilone
Borumba tells the story of Congolese artist Jocelyn Balu and celebrates the history of Congolese rumba, that of the Kongo people's forced journey to America during the transatlantic slave trade, before their return to their homeland. - press release
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Apostles of Aba
Nmere Giri
Wisdom
EMI
1978
For over forty years, the Apostles of Aba have stood as the jewel in the crown of the music scene in Eastern Nigeria. Since their formation in 1973, the band has turned out memorable performances in a variety of styles including rock, soul, funk, pop and reggae. - cultures of soul
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Waka Waka Band Featuring Florence Naziwa
Onyanjule
Various Artists: Twekembe Vol. 1
DPL
Albert Amigo, also known as ‘Wawawa,’ joined Uganda's Afrigo Band in 1994 as a lead guitarist. He composed songs like "Safari," "Yote Bule," "Shamusha," and "Ekikere Kiri ku Mbaata." He left in the 1990s to start his own Waka Waka Band. - ugmuziki
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Les Wanyika
Sina Makosa
Sina Makosa
Tamasha
1980
Les Wanyika is a prominent band with Tanzanian and Kenyan members based in Nairobi, Kenya. It was formed in 1978 when drummer Rashid Juma, guitarist Omar Shabani, bassist Tom Malanga, saxophonist Sijali Salum Zuwa, and Phoney Mkwanyule left the Simba Wanyika Band. They were joined by guitarist John Ngereza and vocalist Issa Juma. - wiki
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Freh Kodja
La Coladera
Various Artists: Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World
Habibi Funk
Algerian saxophone player, based in Paris, France. In Group: Les Flammes. - discogs
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Antoine Dougbé
Djomido Ma Dougbe Tche
Antoine Dougbe et L‘Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou
Analog Africa
Even the most dedicated crate-digger might go their whole life without stumbling across any of the three LPs Antoine Dougbé
released in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Yet he is remembered with a mixture of admiration and fear; for Antoine Dougbé
was not merely one of the most inventive songwriters to emerge from the fertile music scene of Cotonou, but also a powerful
Vodún initiate whose close connection to the spirit world allowed him to refer to himself as “the Devil’s prime minister.” - press release
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BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)
Sebenzela
The Road is Never Easy
Outhere Records
The Road Is Never Easy is BCUC's fifth album and their debut on Outhere Records. On this new offering, BCUC takes listeners on another Afro-psychedelic journey into the soul of Soweto. It feels like a gospel sermon colliding with a punk concert, "guaranteed to touch untapped corners of your soul" (OkayAfrica). - press release
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Antonio Carlos & Jocafi, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Tá Com Medo Por Quê
Antonio Carlos & Jocafi
Jazz is Dead
Antonio Carlos & Jocafi have been influencing Brazilian pop music for decades, and deliver the new Jazz Is Dead record! They weave Bahia’s folkloric traditions with JID’s analog soul. - press release
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Pixvae
Poderosa Soy
De Lado a Lado
Compagnie 4000
New album fuses Colombian currulao rhythms with noisy art-rock to make "Colombian Crunch Music"
Features traditional Afro-Pacific instruments (marimba de chonta, cununos, bombo) alongside distorted guitars and saxophone
De lado a lado "side by side" is shaped by the Franco-Colombian collective's personal stories of migration, strength, and the richness of multiple perspectives from each side of the Atlantic. - press release
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1:56:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rizomagic
Orbital
Orbital/Lunar EP
Soundway
Colombian electronic production duo make their crunching Soundway debut with a digital EP of high-octane sonic explorations influenced by the Bogotá scene where they flourish, Latin America and beyond
With more than a nod to cumbia rebajada, the genre exploring slowed-down and manipulated cumbia, the pair are exploring a much-loved tradition whilst reinventing their sound, which they term Psychotropicolombian Futurism. - press release
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2:06:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Doctor Nativo
La Kocina
BarrioKandela
Stonetree
A sonic brotherhood between Guatemaya, Guatemala and Mexico, BarrioKandela is a spiritual and cultural alliance, a joining of forces that amplifies revolutionary voices from the ground up: from the barrio, from the roots. It speaks not of borders but of shared territory, living memory, and streets that pulse the same on both sides of the map. - press release
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Los Destellos
El Boogalo de los Destellos
Sicodélicos
Vampi Soul
Los Destellos (Spanish for "the Flashes") is a Peruvian cumbia band formed in Lima, Peru in 1966 by Enrique Delgado Montes. In their early releases, Los Destellos popularized the sharp sound of the electric guitar and bass in the context of a cumbia ensemble. By replacing the horns and accordion with the strings, they played a key role in developing the genre that later became known as Peruvian cumbia. - wiki
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Fauna
Bland Stenar
Taiga Trans
Glitterbeat
Taiga Trans, the debut album from Fauna, is a hypnotic collision of krautrock propulsion, psychedelic ritual, and subterranean rave energy. The eight-piece Swedish outernational collective channels a multicultural, multidimensional sound that feels both deeply rooted and otherworldly. - press release
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2:17:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Momo
Egum Eô
Tum Tum Tum
Agogo
Tum Tum Tum is the eighth album from London-based Brazilian artist Marcelo Frota aka MOMO., featuring guest appearances from Brazilian bossa nova legend Marcos Valle and Smoke City's Nina Miranda as well as UK jazz trombonist Rosie Turton and his tight-knit band, all recorded in South London. - press release
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Pedro Volta
Cantos Da Floresta
Retrosambas
Brasil Discos
Vocals: Barbara Rodrix. São Paulo singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Volta releases Retrosambas, a 10-track album that explores Brazilian musical tradition through a contemporary lens. Built from original compositions and carefully selected reinterpretations, the record moves through the worlds of pre- and post-Bossa Nova songwriting, bridging eras of Brazilian music with a refined, modern sensibility rooted in live performance and organic sound. - press release
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2:23:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kareyce Fotso
Zougolo
Gwà
Contre-Jour
Kareyce Fotso is a Cameroonian singer who performs around the world and in various styles, including Afro pop, blues and mangambeu. When she sings, she often accompanies herself with guitar, wooden drums or bells. - wiki
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Amadou & Mariam
Sonfo Feat. Fally Ipupa
L'Amour À La Folie
Because Music
Amadou & Mariam were a blind musical duo from Mali, composed of Bamako-born Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia. As well as being a musical duo, they were a married couple. Amadou passed away on April 4 2025, aged 70. - wiki
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Neba Solo & Benego Diakité
Djinê Mogo Tiki
A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking
Nonesuch Records
Malian balafon player Neba Solo and donso n’goni player Benego Diakité’s album A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking—the first in a series of new releases in collaboration with longtime Nonesuch partner Nick Gold, former head of World Circuit Records—is out now. - label site
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Souad Massi
Samt
Zagate
BackingTrack Production
Somewhere between folk, rock and poetry, Souad Massi is back with Zagate, a dazzling album in which the softness of her vocals stands in stark contrast with the weight of today’s world. With a rock and groove-oriented production by Justin Adams, who also plays guitar on the album, the Franco-Algerian artist presents the most liberated and outspoken work of her career. - press releasee
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2:46:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Maryam Saleh
Wanas
Syrr
Simsara Records
A mythic and introspective work, Syrr (Arabic for “secret”) transforms memory, loss, and lived experience into a shifting world of sound, voice, and embodied emotion. Written and composed by Maryam Saleh, a luminary of Egypt’s alternative music scene, the album traces a journey in which the self is fractured, questioned, reassembled, and ultimately expanded. - bandcamp
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Cocanha
Clam
Flame Folclòre
Bongo Joe
Cocanha (France, Occitan) are at the forefront of a new generation of French artists who have been breathing new life into French folk, or ‘trad’ and with Flame Folclòre, their 3rd album, Caroline Dufau and Lila Fraysse have made their most radical and most personal statement yet.
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Kuljit Bhamra
Nach Nach Ke Dharti Hila
Desi - the Soul of Punjab
Arc Music
With Pappi Singh Kenya. Bringing together voices from across the UK Punjabi community, award-winning composer and tabla player Kuljit Bhamra MBE unites leading British vocalists including Heera Group, Premi Johal, Abira Shah and Mohinder Kaur Bhamra with renowned lyricists such as Preet Nihal and Pappi Singh Kenya. Inspired by the timeless lok geet traditions and the golden era of 1980s British Bhangra, Kuljit blends classic folk instruments with fresh contemporary production to celebrate the enduring spirit of Punjabi culture. - press release
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