From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:39 AM

-Download on iTunes(Poland) The Warsaw Village Band is an adventurous aggregate of young musicians who have taken their heritage of Polish folk music and injected it with 21st century fire and inquiry. "Let’s Play, Musicians" originally appeared on the band's CD "uprooting" as a marriage so...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:39 AM

(USA) This last Presidential campaign saw a plethora of musicians who crated music videos to express their hopes about the future of the country and their candidate. The largest outpouring from the world music community by far was for President Elect Obama. Prior to the election it would have app...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:39 AM

(Iran/Sweden) The Abjeez are sisters Melody and Safoura Safavi (In Farsi, "abjee" means "sister") and they are out to destroy stereotypes with their own special blend of irony and iconoclasm. They are not sheltered creatures either, born in Iran, but raised in Sweden they have traveled extensive...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:39 AM

(Uruguay) When we interviewed Jorge Nasser for our "Music for Human Rights" project, he spoke about the hardships of the road, saying "what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger." "A Tus Pies" (On Your Feet) mirrors these thoughts, examining the outer and inner realities of an artist's life. ...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:39 AM

Every week Michal Shapiro, Link TV’s Director of Music Programming, gives her insight into our weekly world music video premiere and other music videos and documentaries.

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:38 AM

(Hungary) No, it’s not the National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis, or the North American Pocketbike Racing Association. It's not an acronym at all, it's Napra, a terrific folk fusion band from Hungary. In the band's video, "Little House" we are fairly bombarded with great i...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:38 AM

Topical issues are addressed: Michael Franti speaks to the unity of mankind, K’Naan describes the difficulties of being a refugee in a new country, and Nasjota rap about the Sudanese homeland. Then Aterciopelados sings about the misplaced love of money, and El Hadj N'Diaye bemoans third wor...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:38 AM

The original Blind Boys of Alabama actually all met in a school for the blind in 1939. Age aside, they can still pack a vocal punch, as this rendition of a grand old spiritual shows.Watch the complete show "Breaking the Silence, Beating the Drum"Watch other World Music videos

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(Spain) Jairo Zavala aka DePedro is best known as a ringer and session man on guitar. He has tenured with Amparanoia, Spanish instrumental surfers Los Coronas and the Arizona-based rock band Calexico. "DePedro" his first outing as a front man, reveals his eclectic musical upbringing, as he liste...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:37 AM

(Kyrgyzstan) Every two years, a music festival called the Sharq Taronalari is held in Samarkand, at the magnificent Registan, a three sided Madrassa and meeting place built between the 15th and 17th centuries. This performance is from the 2005 festival and is by Salamat Sadikova, who is consider...

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-Download the song-Buy the album(France/Spain) He may look like a kid, but Christian, the sunglass wearing, ghetto blaster-toting boy in this video is a former child soldier in Liberia’s civil war. Filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, known for his film "Carlito's Medellin" in which he followe...

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(Sudan) Say "Sudan" these days and most Americans think of Darfur. This video, shot in Khartoum, in neighborhoods high and low is more representative of the common people in the north of the country, who struggle under a corrupt and unresponsive regime. But life goes on, and this video, for all ...

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-Download on iTunes-Buy the album(Brazil) Cibelle was born in Sao Paulo and is considered one of Brazil’s most creative and hard to classify artists. She was the main vocalist in "São Paulo Confessions" the landmark album of Brazilian Electronica. She now resides in the UK. Although the lyric "La...

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-Buy the album(Brazil) Chico César is one of Brasil’s foremost songwriters, and he is also an outspoken champion of the poor, both urban and rural. He was raised as he says "on a little plot of land beside a dirt road four kilometers away from the town Catolé de la Rocha in Paraiba state." He be...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:37 AM

This doc explores Sevdah, one of the world’s great undiscovered musical forms, equal in beauty to Portuguese Fado and Argentine tangos.

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:37 AM

(Réunion) "You saw light that you came closer to to see, you saw that it was open and you came in, we didn’t try to find out your history, or to know who you were, we simply told you that it wasn't that important but to come eat a little something." Here is a gentle reminiscence of generosi...

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(Poland) "Lament" is a traditional rural song that has been reprocessed through the Warsaw Village Band’s uniquely urban approach. While the lyrics read like a fairly typical story of a fallen warrior of old, Maja Kleszez's vocals are as freewheeling in tone as any New Music diva's. Th...

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"The day before yesterday, the Devil tempted me...he wanted me to steal from someone else...I’m poor as a churchmouse." These days everyone is having hard times, and so a video like this is very timely.  But despite its sad lyric, the video has a light touch, as has the music. (Cape Verdeans see...

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:37 AM

Live performances from Mamak Khadem (Iran/USA), Habib Koite (Mali), Renato Borghetti (Brazil), DDT (Russia), Mayra Andrade (Cape Verde) and Ojos de Brujo (Spain) with Faada Freddy (Senegal).

From: Link TV on Mon, Dec 07 2009 8:29 AM

-Download the song-Buy the album(Mali) Here’s a live performance in Belgium by Habib Koite of Mali, one of world music’s foremost guitarists. His unique finger picking style is based upon the playing of the kamal ngoni, a traditional harp-like instrument. His much anticipated CD “Afriki” follows...