Music: Cherrie, Sherihan, 2016August 17th, 2019|Country: Somalia, Sweden|The first album by the Somali-Swedish R&B diva whose song “163 För Evigt” became a sensation worldwide despite the language barrier: powerful music informed by growing up black in Europe
Music: Narasirato, Inoni Ana Totoraha, 2015July 26th, 2019|Country: Solomon Islands|A perfect soundtrack for preventing climate change from a 17 piece panpipe orchestra who live and work near the rainforest: traditional yet modern Solomon Islands music that lights up rock festivals
Music: Huarere, Homson Tribute, 2004July 14th, 2019|Country: Vanuatu|Reggae from Vanuatu that’s both a testament to the genre’s power and a potent reimagining of it, drenched in Oceanian culture and realities. Archipelago dwellers sure know how to make intelligent beach music
Music: Afro-Beat Airways, West African Shock Waves: Ghana & Togo 1972-1978, 2010July 2nd, 2019|Country: Ghana, Togo|1970s psychedelic funk from the less explored musically regions of West Africa: fresh soundings of the epoch that sometimes doesn’t seem like it could be cool again
Music: Tenzin Choegyal and Taro Terahara, The Awakened Heart, 2011June 21st, 2019|Country: Australia, Japan, Tibet|Calming, healing collection of mantras, both ancient and contemporary, in a collaboration between Tibetan musician based in Australia and the Japanese master of the bansuri flute
Music: Ngaiire, Blastoma, 2016June 11th, 2019|Country: Australia, Papua New Guinea|Dark, danceable future soul from Papua New Guinea in a sophomore album named after the singer’s childhood cancer: Ngaiire is a talent from Oceania to look out for
Music: Bamba Pana, Poaa, 2018May 29th, 2019|Country: Tanzania|Singali reimagined for Dar Es Salaam’s dancefloors in this album of Tanzanian electronica of the future
Music: M.I.A., Arular, 2005May 22nd, 2019|Country: Eelam Tamil, United Kingdom|The vernacular of rootlessness, multiculturalism and politics of war in one of the greatest albums to come out in the 21st century so far
Music: Deben Bhattacharya, Zingari, 2011April 25th, 2019|Country: Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Roma, Romania, Spain|Following the routes of Roma migration across Europe via music
Music: Širom, I Can Be a Clay Snapper, 2017April 19th, 2019|Country: Slovenia|Imaginative, experimental take on multi-instrumental folk music
Music: Kondi Band, Salone, 2017April 13th, 2019|Country: Sierra Leone, USA|Thumb piano electronica that brings tradition to the dancefloor
Music: Yma Sumac, Mambo!, 1954April 9th, 2019|Country: Peru|Peruvian goddess sings: four and a half octaves and a whole lot of mambo
Music: Panama! 2: Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk on the Isthmus, 1967-77April 2nd, 2019|Country: Panama|
