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Reggae & Caribbean
YELLOWMAN
Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt
Greensleeves Reggae Classics
EEK-A-MOUSE
Mouseketeer
Greensleeves Reggae Classics
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Europe
VARIOUS ARTISTS
TRAVELLIN’ COMPANION 3: A MUSICAL JOURNEY TO GERMANY
WeltWunder
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Reggae & Caribbean
GREGORY ISAACS
20th Century Masters: The Best Of Gregory Isaacs, The Millennium Collection
Hip-O/ Island/Universal
PETER TOSH
20th Century Masters: The Best Of Peter Tosh, The Millennium Collection
Hip-O/ JAD/Universal
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Greater Latin America
PEREGOYO Y SU COMBO VACANA
El Rey Del Currulao
Otrabanda
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World Fusion
THE BUDOS BAND
The Budos Band
Daptone
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World Music Features
Charanga Cakewalk
Charanga Cakewalk is a smooth cocktail of Tex-Mex border music, exotica, dub and chilled-out dance music that reflects Michael Ramos’ Texan heritage.
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World Music Features
Motion Trio
At a recent WOMEX conference in Essen, Germany, an incredible group of Polish accordionists called the Motion Trio completely rocked the place. They push their instruments to the limits, coaxing strange new sounds out of them.
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Greater Latin America
LOS DE ABAJO
Complete & LIVE (L.A./04)
Kufala
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World Music Features
Vijay Iyer
Pianist Vijay Iyer has been exceeding expectations and winning critics over since his 1995 recording debut.
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World Music Features
Ned Sublette
Ned Sublette never expected to be writing about the ancient Phoenicians when he set out to write a history of Cuban music. "But the more I dug, the deeper the roots got," he said. "At a certain point in my research, I just made a decision and said, ‘Yeah, I really am gonna go there.’"
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World Music Features
Suzzana Owiyo
Suzzana Owiyo is a young, guitar-packing Luo singer-songwriter who’s showing the world that her people have more than one musical trick up their sleeve.
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World Music Features
Ramatou Diakité
One of the great voices to emerge from the Wassoulou region of southern Mali is singer Ramatou Diakité, who first broke big in the late ’90s and is now setting her sights on the U.S.
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Europe
LES YEUX NOIRS
Live
Harmonia Mundi/ World Village
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Africa
VARIOUS ARTISTS
GHANA SOUNDZ
Soundways
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North American
THE BUDOS BAND
The Budos Band
Daptone
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North American
SEAN PAUL
The Trinity
VP
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World Music Features
Joe Bataan
And one of the most distinctive and original Latin musicians that New York ever produced, Joe Bataan, has recently reemerged from semi-retirement to reclaim his title with his first album of new music in over a decade.
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Travel
Dia de las Muertas
Mexico’s “Day of the Dead” is a vibrant fusion of European Christianity and pre-Colombian ritual that’s become one of the most iconic festivals in all of the Americas. The holiday is much more than just a South of the Border variant of Halloween.
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World Music Legends
Ray Barretto
Few musicians can boast a career as varied, lengthy and influential as Ray Barretto.
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Film
Maestro
Maestro, directed by Cuban-born/New York-raised director Josell Ramos, takes a look at the formative days of dance music culture in New York City, when it was still underground, and still largely a black, Latino and gay phenomenon.
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