Sunday 17th May 2026
Garry filling in for Rick. Featuring the album Weaving Gold In Broken Places by the Medusa Quartet, a Canadian group with Eastern European influences. New music from Sezen Aksu (Turkey), Hayutun (Armenia), Vesna (Czechia), Tautumeitas (Latvia) and the Uyghur community (China). More from the best recent world music releases, and songs from the new Songlines magazine (June edition #218).
Garry filling in for Rick. Featuring the album Weaving Gold In Broken Places by the Medusa Quartet, a Canadian group with Eastern European influences. New music from Sezen Aksu (Turkey), Hayutun (Armenia), Vesna (Czechia), Tautumeitas (Latvia) and the Uyghur community (China). More from the best recent world music releases, and songs from the new Songlines magazine (June edition #218).
Canadian group featuring some less common stringed instruments like the nykelharpa, suka and plock fiddle
Duo from the Occitan-speaking community. Taken from the Songlines magazine Top of the World CD for June 2026 edition (#218)
Egyptian singer. Taken from the Songlines magazine Top of the World CD for June 2026 edition (#218)
Collaboration between Mexican and Colombian groups Taken from the Songlines magazine Top of the World CD for June 2026 edition (#218)
Originally released on cassette and long confined to local circulation, these recordings offer a rare perspective on African popular music of the period
Benin singer who died in 1986 and whose music has been re-discovered by the label Analog Africa
Americana Show Band was an Egyptian artistic trio founded by حميد الشاعري (Hamid al-Sha'eri) & طارق نور (Tareq Nur) in the late 1980s. Members were: هشام عباس (Hisham Abbas) - vocals, عالية صالح (Aliya Saleh) - vocals
The entry from Croatia in this year's Eurovision Song Contest
Canadian group. The kujuwiak is the slowest of the Polish dances, the oberek the fastest
A compilation pulling together rural Greek demotika recordings from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s
Taken from an upcoming Telugu film in India
Pakistani-born sitarist and producer whose music bridges South Asian classical traditions with electronic and global influences
Collaboration between Israeli, UK and Indian musicians
Band from Paraíba, in northeastern Brazil, formed in 2019 with the aim of creating axé music with a more compact and direct format.
Armenian group previously known as Hayat Project from the town of Gyumri
Uyghur singer
Canadian group. The first tune of this medley is written by Turkish composer, writer, and poet Leyla Saz (1850-1936). They play an instrumental version, however, the melody’s lyrics speak of unrequited love and longing: “Duymasın Kimse Yine Kalbi Olan Feryadımı" (in English, "Let no one hear the cry that is the heart.”) Saz grew up in the harem of the Ottoman empire, and was known to host music and art salons in her living room. Geo Hathaway wrote the second tune as an homage to the life of this energetic and prolific woman.
Group from Madrid mad about Cuban music
Brother & Sister duo from Mexico.