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

(Czech Republic) Sometimes the artistic director of a video can take a song to an entire other level. That’s what animator/director Pavel Sadilek has done with this enigmatic ballad from Jarret. While the lyric could be interpreted simply as a song about a sad love, the video brings in a gamut o...

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

(Colombia) This Cumbia-drenched track could not come from any place but Colombia.  "Here comes Bomba Estereo with Champeta, reggae music, cumbia, and folklore,     Come on,It’s a power, it's an atomic bombA little folklore with electronic music"Li Saumet plunges in with a joyfully aggressiv...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:25 AM

The Portuguese band Deolinda proves that it can recreate — and even outdo -- its performance on CD, in this live showcase from WOMEX 2009.

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:09 AM

From mountainous Kyrgyzstan, Jew’s harps, fiddles, plucked stringed instruments, and powerful voices transmit the vibrant rhythms of nomadism and the serene atmosphere of the Kyrgyz mountains in a musical language as contemporary as it is ancient. This documentary is part of "Music of Central As...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:09 AM

Kanun (or qanun) is a stringed instrument related to the zither, found in Near Eastern music. Tamer Pinarbasi is a kanun virtuoso, who over twenty years has developed his own special technique for playing this incredible instrument.

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:09 AM

From the landmark 1998 concert of räi music in Paris featuring Khaled, Faudel, and Rachid Taha to the innovative and improvised Konono N. 1 jam on the streets of Kinshasa, the power of live performance translates amazingly well through this set of videos from the Link TV collection. Also feature...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:06 AM

In this exclusive Link TV interview, Afropop’s foremost Diva talks to Link about her music, her ideals and her activism.Visit Angelique Kidjo online

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:06 AM

In 2005, singer Kiran Ahluwalia received the Juno award (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy) for her first CD which contained settings of ghazals and folk songs. But she firmly states that she does not sing "traditional" Indian music, and in this insightful interview she explains her journey fr...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:06 AM

-Download on iTunes(Brazil) Renato Borghetti is of Italian extraction and hails from Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. When we think of Brazil we generally think of Samba, Bossa Nova, and more recently, Forro; but Rio Grande do Sul shares a border with Argentina, giving it’s m...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:06 AM

-Download on iTunes-Buy the album(Spain) The King of Catalan Rumba is back with "Jalamandru," a wry look at an unrepentant over-eater. Peret Pubill Calaf aka Peret has a career that goes way back to his first single in 1974 and he has aged most gracefully. In this Benny Hill-like outing, he pla...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 10:06 AM

-Download on iTunes(Colombia) Water gives life to humanity, to all plants and animals and is fast becoming one of the Earth’s most precious and endangered resources, due to industrial pollution, global warming and sheer mass consumption. The Bogotà River, named for the city it flows through is o...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

-Download on iTunes-Buy the album(Finland) Here’s a bit of holiday cheer from Finland, where the nights are cold, the music is hot, and the sensibility is always unique. We caught this group live at the 2007 World Music Expo (WOMEX) in Seville and were enchanted with their act. After all, who ca...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

-Download on iTunes-Buy the album(USA) Rupa is a musican, painter and doctor born of Indian parents who has lived in the USA, France and India. A polyglot indeed, whose music reflects a globalista’s eye view.The scene is a bistro in Paris. A motley bunch are hanging at the bar. Who is t...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

-Download the song(Mali) "They are little bourgeois. All these children are like kings. Their mothers carry them all over. Their fathers spoil them. The maid dotes on them." Many societies exalt children, but in this song, Habib Koite cautions that this kind of catering produces imperious, spoil...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

An activist in every sense, Michael Franti has spoken out against the death penalty, the ills of globalization, corporate greed, and the prison system. In this interview, taped in San Francisco, Franti describes a world he envisions that will need no passports. He touches on his visits...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

(Czech Republic) Bára Kratochvílová and Jan Kratochvíl are DVA, which means "two." Their record label describes their music as "cabaret, beatbox, tango, popsongs, acoustic, electro acoustic and lo-fi folk." In other words, this is highly individual and personal stuff, and part of it is the creat...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

(Azerbaijan) When Aygun Baylar sings the demanding repertoire of Azerbaijani muggam, there is something beyond the sheer power of her voice that one is struck with. There is an emotional punch to her delivery; a total immersion in the music that transcends technique. In addition, her smokey tone...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

(UK/Gambia) Justin Adams has been straddling two worlds for years. As a rock n' roll and R & B player, and as a musician who has also carefully integrated both northern and subsaharan African guitar styles, he has been Robert Plant’s player of choice.  When he teamed up with Gambian Ritti-p...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

Love and Exotica prevail, with Ziskakan praising Gypsies in Rajasthan, Sona Mohapatra presenting different styles of Indian dance, Federico Aubele takes us to a bordello, while Rupa and the April Fishes take us to a Paris Bistro that is not really in Paris. Then Dato brings us a mournful love so...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 9:42 AM

This special block of music videos is about form, be it film or animation. Manu Chao produced two versions of his "Rainin' in Paradize" and we show both of them. And Dadawa’s "In the Setting of the Sun" is like a short art film in its own right.