Abelardo Carbonó: Maravilloso Mundo De Abelardo Carbonó
It's the sparkle of the mid-century rumba guitar and its northwest descendents that Carbono seems to love most.
Deanne Sole
De Temps Antan: Ce Monde Ici-Bas
Honkytonk Québécois folklore with lots of stomp.
Mar Seck: Vagabonde: From Super Cap-Vert to Number One, Unreleased recordings 1969-1980
This voice, so romantic, so gently strong, so willing to let its 18-year-old falsetto break in half over a note in "Sibouten".
Mamani Keita: Kanou
Kanou is a pop-rock album and it's also an impatient album. It never uses four seconds to get a motif across if it can do it in three.
Lobi Traoré: Bamako Nights: Live at Bar Bozo 1995
The man in his element.
Boris Kovač and La Campanella: Eastern Moon Rising
Kovač brings ideas from Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, etc, folk dance into contact with other musics that are urban and fringe-dwelling but at the same time somewhat antique
Badi Assad: Between Love and Luck
She sings about romance and optimism in English and Portuguese.
Shanren: Left Foot Dance of the Yi and Other Chinese Folk-Rock Anthems
Left Foot is a varied album but not a restless one.
Bosq of Whiskey Barons: Bosq y Orquestra de Madera
Afrobeat, reggae, cumbia, tropicalia and shivs of disco sass.