Sunday 4th January 2026
Garry filling in for Rick this week. Featuring the first new studio album for 25 years by Spanish group Radio Tarifa, called La Noche. Plus new music from Aterciopelados (Colombia), Afrodream (Italy) and Otyken (Siberia). And looking back at some of the great World Music releases of 2025
Garry filling in for Rick this week. Featuring the first new studio album for 25 years by Spanish group Radio Tarifa, called La Noche. Plus new music from Aterciopelados (Colombia), Afrodream (Italy) and Otyken (Siberia). And looking back at some of the great World Music releases of 2025.
Italian group with Senegalese singer Abou Samb
Amadou Bagayoko died 4 April 2025, but Mariam was able to complete their album and release it in October
12 piece Cuban group active since 1990. Colé Colé means "blessing" in the Yoruba language
Album to be released in January 2026
Mauritanian and Canadian duo
Spanish group will be playing at the Powerhouse on 6 March 2026
Played at the Powerhouse 13 March 2025
YUZ, the stage name of Uriah Witztum, is a composer, guitar virtuoso, and producer whose music is deeply rooted in Middle Eastern traditions, including Turkish, Israeli, and Greek influences
Lior Romano grew up in a Turkish-Egyptian heritage household, surrounded by music. Turkish and Egyptian, naturally, but also Greek, and the unique fusion of Greek and Arabic sounds common to the culturally diverse neighbourhood he grew up in.
Group from Finland, their name means The Fury
Thai drummer now based in Montreal fusing afro-jazz, funk and indigenous Thai instruments - in which we coined this genre, "Afro Isaan Soul"
Local duo Siyavash Doostkhah and Greta Kelly fusing Persian Sufi traditions and modern electronic production
Collaboration between Afghan-American rabab player Qais Essar and American Sikh Sonny Singh who sings and plays trumpet and dhol drum on the album
SOWULO is the work of multi-instrumentalist and composer Faber Horbach, and is inspired by Anglo-Saxon and Viking-age mysticism and philosophy. Captivated by the cyclical nature of existence and an animistic worldview, Faber is determined to express his spiritual path through his music.