Before the World There was Music

Second pandemic edition from my backyard, let’s travel the world the only way we can, through new music from Finland to Guinea, Chile to Hungary

First pandemic edition! Travel the world in new music when all other travel is impossible! Live from my backyard to the planet

New music from islands big and small ans continental, ever evolving new fusions and hybrids of traditional and cutting edge productions

New Month, new tunes from the african continent that lead to brasil and back to Portugal and Catalonia for a northern leg through Russia and Finland

We finally dive back into discovering the coolest new sounds out of Latin America after checking out various African remixes and recent tunes with a detour through Tel Aviv and the middle east

Today in a rare interview I am joined by singer songwriter Quisha to begin this week's musical journey in Senegal as we then make our way from the Baltic countries to Haiti and back to Senegal and beyond with a few stops in between

New stuff from Africa to Turkey, celebrating Bong Juon Ho victory at the Oscars with some South Korean pansori reaggae funk and Rosalia as the first best new artist nominee recognized for music recorded entirely in Spanish at the Grammys

reissue surprises from Guadeloupe, NIgeria, Burkina Faso, Lebannon, Marocco and Lybia, new music from yunnan and South Korea

Lovely new Brazilian sounds, remix from avant guard Ukrainian folk, Scandinavian vibes all the way to Ireland and a $660 piece of forgotten vinyl of Indian disco recorded in Calgary

The music of the protests around the world from Chile, Lebannon and Hong Kong plus some new stuff

2020 releases from Anoushka Shankar and her german Turkish collaborator Alev Lenz leads us to new music from around the Medditeranean, Portugal to Croatia to Turkey to Egypt

Back for the new year with some new muticultural projects that bring italy, Scotland and France together with West Africa and Viet Nam as well as assotrted new sounds from Estonia to Catalonia to Los Angeles and Cuba.

new pan african remixes

Where else can you travel from Vanuatu to Latvia, Lithuania to Ghana and India to Guinea Bissau, hearing the voices of now deeply rooted in tradition! We start the show with a very unique artist with Persian roots from Tel Aviv

Hungarian producers rework gems from Brazil and Ghana before we hear from places less heard from, with some South Korean reggae/afrobeat, Bulgarian trad in New Orleans, new Moroccan Gnawa and Kurdish classical music with some Dutch jazz notes...also a nerw song from the talented Colombian Canadian Lido Pimienta and much more

Exploring the new African Electronic scene leads to some canadian new rhumba and afrobeat, then to Yemen via Israel and back to Israel ending in Sao Paolo Brasil

Today we follow the path of the Osprey from West Africa to Northern Europe, musically that is from Mali and Senegal to Wales and Ireland, then Mexican inspired tunes lead to the lates from France and back to West Africa

First hour features some sweet new sounds from Cuba as we then make our way to North Africa through Russia and ending in Costa Rica by request, Pura Vida!

Some beautiful new female voices courtesy of Anoushka Shankar collaboarating with Ibeyi, brazilian poetess Maria Rezende with Spanish singer/guitarist Amparo Sánchez then down the musical rabbit hole led by Colombia's new psychedelic cumbieros Los Piranas only to find some really sweet new afro-house gems on the other side featuring Guinean Falle Nioke.

New sounds from Brazil, golden sounds from highlife gods in the 70's and assorted other new music

Today we explore the music of some islands, mainly the vibrant new sounds from the island of Reunion, a incredibly unique creole fusion of African, Indian and French cultures. The traditional Maloya, one of the blues of the Indian ocean has been evolving and transforming into new hybrids. we then stop off in Mauritius, Madagascar and Puerto Rico.

The future sound of Africa from the Kampala electronic scene, the future sound of Peru with folkelectronico duo Dengue Dengue Dengue, some Canadian new releases from Pierre Kwenders and Caribou as we make our way from Mali to Argentina, Belize to Russia

Another week of amazing new music from around the globe, including Malian luminary Habib Koite, some real gems from Eastern Europe and starting out with some truly inspiring new releases from Brazil headed by the amazonian legend Dona Onete

Today we continue our exploration of new productions out of South America a place where electrónica, afro rhythms and Andean folk come together in new ways, we stop in Mexico city before we make our way to discover the new sound of Galicia

I am back from vacation and podcasting for the first time, time to travel again in a purely musical way, back to Africa to hear what's new then to the UK to partake in the exploding new jazz scene there,

Today we explore some new sounds from Latin America, from Electro-folk to Hip-hop, sorry no reggaeton or pop, just artists creating a redefined future sound of now for the western hemisphere south of the Rio Grande and beyond...