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JULIÁN MAYORGA

A feverish mix of angular electric guitars,
circuit-bent beats, found percussion and
rapid-fire incantations.
BUZZ' AYAZ
Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital
Nicosia, Buzz’ Ayaz creates a transfixing
Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia.
EL KHAT

A careening orchestra of percussion, horns,
strings, electricity and el Wahab’s own DIY
instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.
SAAGARA

A buzzing juxtaposition of dense Indian
rhythms and pulsating electronic patterns.
DAL:UM

Ethereal and otherworldly this is music that
treasures the space between the notes.
BABA ZULA

Dub, Turkish psych-rock, Anatolian folk music,
Krautrock and the experimental beyond.
LANDLESS
The Irish quartet sings centuries old ballads
as well as more recently penned folk songs.
Sometimes unaccompanied and at times with
subtle instrumentation, their vocally rich music
is dark and patient; spellbinding and gorgeous.
GORDAN
Gordan mirror the mysticism of legends and
stories from the Balkan region, creating a music
that stretches between expressiveness and
abstraction; tradition and the avant-garde.
ANA LUA CAIANO
Caiano’s music melds rural Portuguese
musical traditions with layered vocals,
synthesizers, insistent beats and field
recordings.
CATHERINE GRAINDORGE

Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge
uses strings, harmonium and electronic
treatments to explore intimate corners
and widescreen vistas.
GORDAN
Music that stretches between
expressiveness and abstraction;
tradition and the avant-garde.
AVALANCHE KAITO

A Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist
and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse)
meets a Brussels noise punk duo.
LENHART TAPES

Hypnotic Walkman jams meet industrial
rhythm loops and trad-folk songs interpreted
by a lineup of thrilling female vocalists.
AZIZA BRAHIM

Aziza Brahim’s is a contemporary sonic

poet and an eloquent spokesperson for

the Saharawi people and their struggle
for recognition and justice.
LUCIDVOX

Incendiary mix of atmospheric psych-rock,
heavy riffs and Russian folk mystery.
BIXIGA 70

This ten-piece, Sao Paulo based combo,
unleash a ground-breaking fusion of
African and South American rhythms and
sounds.
ALTIN GÜN

Interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy.
A leading voice in the emergent global psych-rock
scene. Explosive, funky and transcendent.
BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL

An exhilarating weave of rich textural
drones, trance atmospheres and
instrumental folk traditions.
FAIZAL MOSTRIXX

A lush sonic tapestry of polyrhythms, modern
dancefloor styles, amapiano, Nile basin
ceremonial chants and Pan-African field recordings.
KING AYISOBA

Ghanaian legend creates a raw,
emphatic sound that fuses kologo music
with contemporary sonics.
GAYE SU AKYOL

Gaye Su Akyol is at the forefront
of the new Istanbul scene.
AL-QASAR

An explosive mix of heavy
Arabian grooves, global psychedelia
and North African trance music.
CATHERINE GRAINDORGE
featuring IGGY POP

A thrilling collaboration between the
acclaimed Belgian composer/instrumentalist
Catherine Graindorge and the ever-iconic
Iggy Pop.
TAU & THE DRONES OF PRAISE

Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces
the natural world and living ancestry,
through joyful experimentation and
deeply rooted sonics.
YANNA MOMINA

Yanna Momina’s Afar Ways
was recorded live in a stilt-hut
on the horn of Africa when Grammy-
winning producer & author, Ian Brennan
THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
LED BY BACHIR ATTAR

A collective of Jbala Sufi trance makers,
committed to creating a contemporary
representation of their centuries-old
musical tradition.
ŠIROM

A deep, resonant soundworld.
PARK JIHA

Inventive, elegant and transcendent.
TRUPA TRUPA

Poland's otly tipped psych/experimental
rock quartet delivers a potent, galvanizing album.
KUUNATIC

A thrilling Tokyo based tribal-psych
trio bolstered by diverse global sonics
and powerful female vocals.
MONSIEUR DOUMANI

A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments,
multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end.
SAMBA TOURÉ

The legendary Malian singer/guitarist returns with his
most personal and immersive album to date.
COMORIAN

"We Are an Island, but We’re Not Alone”
provides a vivid opportunity to hear unvarnished,
original songs from Grande Comore island.
AMMAR 808

Futurist syncopations meet hypnotic, timeless narratives.
USTAD SAAMI

The roots of Saami's music go back to the 13th
century - but it's message is contemporary and
universal: “to sing is to listen.”
LIRAZ

Shimmering electro-pop meets
pulsing dance rhythms and retro
Persian sonics.
KRONONAUT

Krononaut is a richly textured new
ensemble helmed by guitarist /producer
Leo Abrahams and drummer Martin France.
TOOTARD

Retro funky meets hi-sheen contemporary.
TAMIKREST

Music always is a borderline experience.

Especially when not only stylistically

boundaries are shifting, but the centres of

musical creativity are moving.
fra fra

Raw and celebratory funeral music from northern Ghana.
Hypnotic kologo excursions.
EDIKANFO

Highlife meets afro-funk.
Spirited and horn driven.
ORKESTA MENDOZA

Border music withut borders.
PULLED BY MAGNETS

Forget type, genre or influence: this is the
start of a brand-new trip by one of the most
questing musicians at work anywhere.
LINA_RAÜL REFREE

Lina_Raül Refree is fado for today,
a sound that goes beyond geography.
JON HASSELL

Hassell’s soundworlds have been varied

and bold and their influence on contemporary musics,

discernable and ongoing.
LOS PIRAÑAS

Retro-futurism at its finest.
BANTOU MENTALE

A dark, thundering Kinshasa meets Paris soundworld.
75 DOLLAR BILL

Raw electric blues, Arabic modes

and entrancing folk minimalism

back to the streets of New York.
IFRIQIYYA ELECTRIQUE

Sufi trance musicians and rituals –
from the depths of the Tunisian desert –
in conversation with post-industrial sonics.
NOURA MINT SEYMALI

Born into a prominent family of griot
and choosing from an early age to embrace

the artform that is its lifeblood.
FOFOULAH

Slippery West African beats, dystopian
electronics & echoing, shamanic chants.
STELLA CHIWESHE
Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe.
YONATAN GAT

Yonatan Gat is a guitarist, producer

and experimental composer based in New York City.
SONIDO GALLO NEGRO

Sonido Gallo Negro is a stunning 9-piece,
instrumental combo from east Mexico City
(Aragon) that channels both the mystique
and mysticism of 1960's Peruvian cumbia.
DIRTMUSIC

Dirtmusic return for their fifth album,

a full-scale collaboration with Turkish-psych visionary

Murat Ertel from Baba Zula.
SAZ'ISO

The joys and sorrows of Southern Albanian song.
Assembled by veteran producer Joe Boyd.
JUPITER & OKWESS

Jupiter and Okwess transcend the Congo’s

unexplored musical heritage and dive into

a pool of modernity.
BARGOU 08

Bargou 08 deftly combines the little-known soundscapes
and rhythms of the Tunisian highlands with driving electronic
and rock textures.
ABATWA (THE PYGMY)

Rough-hewn, tribal sonics from

the Rwandan borderlands.
JOSHUA ABRAMS & NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY

Mesmerizing and explorative.
A nexus of non-western traditional musics,
minimalism, krautrock textures and jazz.
AFRO-HAITIAN EXPERIMENTAL ORCHESTRA

An unheard and unholy mixture of Haitian voodoo

rhythms, afrobeat drumming and Krautrock

experimentation.
DAMIR IMAMOVIĆ'S SEVDAH TAKHT

One of the most inspiring forces behind the rebirth
of the traditional style of sevdah (also known as sevdalinka).
M.A.K.U. SOUNDSYSTEM

A visceral, politically charged 8-piece band based

in New York City, with most of its members hailing

from Colombia.
KHMER ROUGE SURVIVORS

Sublime and unheralded sounds from Cambodia.

Heartbreaking and inspiring.
CHIMURENGA RENAISSANCE

Otherworldly sonics, Zimbabwean beats,
Congolese guitar ambiance and political resistance.
BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA

Distortion and wah wah are now at the heart of his sound
and the heat lightning vocals of his wife Amy Sacko

serve as the perfect foil.
CHRIS BROKAW

Boston-based Chris Brokaw has made an indelible
mark on rock music both on his own as well as
with his iconic bands Codeine and Come, and as
a collaborator with Thurston Moore, Evan Dando,
Stephen O’Malley and many others.
HANOI MASTERS

Un-mediated “field” recordings of lesser-known global

music traditions.
SACRI CUORI

The music of Sacri Cuori is a kaleidoscopic road trip
through imaginary 60/70’s soundtrack music
and post-folk sonics from Italy, Europa and beyond.
DENNIS BOVELL

Dub 4 Daze: Classic dub.

Classic reggae.

Classic Dennis Bovell.
HAYVANLAR ALEMI

The flashpoint where dub music

and global psych-rock melt together.
BEN ZABO

A string of firecrackers igniting on the
dance floor of a midnight party.
LOBI TRAORÉ

Lobi Traoré was a true African original,
a guitarist of profound depth and originality,
a singer and songwriter with universal appeal.
BOMBINO

The last couple of years have been an

exhilarating ride for Bombino. In late

2004, he recorded nine acoustic songs

in the Ténéré desert, which became his

first real album.
REFREE

Mesmerizing acoustic and electric guitar explorations
meet sampled street recordings,
haunted voices and hushed electronics.

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Artists

75 Dollar Bill
Abatwa
Adhelm
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
Al-Qasar
Altın Gün
Ana Lua Caiano
Aminata Wassidje Traore
AMMAR 808
Avalanche Kaito
Aziza Brahim
BaBa ZuLa
Bantou Mentale
Bargou 08
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba
Ben Zabo
Bixiga 70
Black Mango
BLK JKS
Bombino
Brìghde Chaimbeul
Buzz’ Ayaz
Catherine Graindorge
Chimurenga Renaissance
Chris Brokaw
Chuck Johnson
Comorian
dal:um
Damir Imamovic
Dennis Bovell
Dirtmusic
Edikanfo
El Khat
El Leopardo
Etceteral
Faizal Mostrixx
Fofoulah
fra fra
Gaye Su Akyol
Glitterbeat
Gordan
Hanoi Masters
Hayvanlar Alemi
Ifriqiyya Electrique
Jon Hassell
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Julián Mayorga
Jupiter & Okwess
Kel Assouf
Khmer Rouge Survivors
King Ayisoba
Krononaut
Kuunatic
Landless
Laraaji
Lenhart Tapes
Liraz
Lobi Traore
Lucidvox
M.A.K.U. Soundsystem
Mekons
Monsieur Doumani
Noura Mint Seymali
Orkesta Mendoza
Park Jiha
Pulled By Magnets
Refree
saagara
Sacri Cuori
Samba Toure
Saramaccan Sound (Suriname)
Saz’iso
Širom
Sonido Gallo Negro
Stella Chiweshe
Tau & the Drones of Praise
Tamikrest
The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar
TootArd
Traditional Mali
Trupa Trupa
Ustad Saami
Various Artists
Yanna Momina
YĪN YĪN
Yonatan Gat