From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

(Canada) The caterpillar-like apparition on your screen is Montreal-based Josh Dolgin, otherwise known as Deejay SoCalled.  His extraordinarily eclectic approach to Jewish music is at once innovative and controversial.  Those who reminisce about Jewish music from the Old Country, or even the pos...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

(Iran/USA) Nikpay wrote the song "Deceit" many years ago, when as a young and heartbroken man, he found a poem by Emad Khorasani that perfectly expressed his own feelings. He set it to music, and even played it for Khorasani a few weeks before the poet passed away. Nikpay eventually relocated to...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

As the harp is to Ireland, the bandura is to Ukraine. Julian Kytasty is a master of the bandura.

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

Excerpts of Lura, chanteuse from Cape Verde, performing to promote her new Cd "Eclipse" at the City Winery.

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

There are lots of catchy beats in this one, starting with Sona Mohapatra and some swinging bhangra, followed by Hard Kaur RAP-sodizing about Bollywood, then over to Namavao, Marina and the Magic Powers for some homespun pleasures. Next we get two takes on Balkan Brass from Shantel and Magnifico,...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

Taped in Istanbul. Sultana relates how "Kucu Kalkmaz" was inspired by conversations she had with friends, who were confiding their own experiences to her.Visit Sultana onlineTake Action for Human Rights at Protect the Human

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

(Canada) Once again, The Little Coal Miners from Hell show us how much you can stir up a crowd without plugging in. "Les Turlutes" is a kind of Quebecois mouth music, that is, scatting that imitates an instrument. (In Celtic music that might be a bagpipe or a fiddle.) Mouth music developed out o...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

From Kabul to California, Homayun Sakhi is admired as the outstanding Afghan rubâb player of his generation, a charismatic virtuoso who has pushed the limits of his instrument. With tabla player Taryalai Hashimi, Sakhi plays music that is uniquely Afghan, yet resonates strongly with the spirit o...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

(China) This is right up there as one of the most artful and beautiful videos in our collection.  Dadawa is from Guangzhou Guangdong, in China. Her first recording in 1995 "Sister Drum" was an international success. She has only recently come out with another CD, "Seven Days" (from which this so...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

(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, and have made a successful career of it, with collaborations with the cream of world music, most notably Manu Chao. The formula is a ...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:06 AM

(Mexico) Hey who’s the guy in the Devo hat? It's Mexican Institute of Sound's DJ and producer Camilo Lara. By day, Lara is the president of EMI Mexico and at night he is mastermind of M.I.S. Along with groups like Nortec Collective and Kinky, M.I.S. is part of a growing Mexican electro...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:05 AM

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 music and one of the first Chinese artists to write rock songs. For this distinction Cui Jian is al...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:03 AM

-Download the song-Buy the album(Mexico) A man strolls through Mexico City’s Museum of Natural History, reminiscing about his ex-girlfriends. They all appear, and each one inserts herself into her own specific diorama. Camilio Lara is literally the "Mexican Institute of Sound" a project that gre...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:03 AM

Find out why Vusi is called "The Voice" with this Link TV exclusive performance.

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:03 AM

-Download on iTunes-Buy the album(China) Sa Dingding is half Mongolian, and half Han Chinese. Growing up on the Mongolian steppes, she absorbed the silences and the sounds that would form her musical vocabulary. She sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanscrit, and a language of her own inventi...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:26 AM

Banning Eyre interviews Omar Faruk Tekbilek who talks about the relationship between musical and spiritual practice. He sings a Sufi song, accompanying himself on the baglama, and demonstrates the ney (flute) and the ear-splitting zurna. Omar Faruk Tekbilek was born in Adana Turkey and found sol...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:26 AM

-Download video on iTunes-Buy the album(Argentina) We credit "Red Light Districts" as the birthplace of many styles of music, from Greek Rebetica, to Jazz to Tango. While this is probably a romantic notion with only a grain of truth, the image of the musician who plays to amuse the inhabitants o...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:26 AM

-Download on iTunes-Buy the album(Mexico) In this outing, the Nortec collective of five Tijuana deejays presents a mix by Fussible (Pepe Mogt) and Bostich (Ramon Amezcua). The music is full of their characteristic loops, processed sounds and accordions- (The term "Nortec" is a combination of No...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:26 AM

(Spain) If some of the members of El Puchero del Hortelano (The Gardener’s Stew) look familiar, you are not imagining things.  The band is an offshoot of the engaging Granada based Maui Y Los Sirènidos, and in this video you can see both Maui (who was on her way out of town, after the videotapin...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:26 AM

(Moldova) Trigon have been making folk inspired jazz for years, and here, the Kaval (flute) takes center stage along with Anatol Stefanet’s dynamic viola work. The video takes us into the hard and messy labor of building a house with home-made mud and straw blocks. Yes, they still do that there,...