This Week's Playlist:

Budo Grape: Watashi Wa No Message / Otona Tachi x Kodomo Tachi / Vivid Sound (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Cambodian Space Project: Woman (featuring Kong Nay) / Whisky Cambodia / Metal Postcard Records / * (0:03:20 Pop-up)

Dao Bandon: La Nong Pai Chat Rai Kan / Chan Di Khi Foi (0:08:18 Pop-up)

Pumpuang Duangjan: Sao Dok Kum Tai (Lady from a Flower) / Various Artists: Thai Pop Spectacular / Sublime Frequencies (0:10:54 Pop-up)

Soraphet Phinyo & Nongnut Duangchiwan: Plop Chai Num / Num Na Khao Sao Na Kluea / Ligo (0:13:50 Pop-up)

Musicians of the Nile: Tangled Up in Blue / Various Artists: From Another World: A Tribute to Bob Dylan / Buda Musique / * (0:17:47 Pop-up)

Mustafa Ali Jat with Osman Sonu Savan Jat and Jusab Husen Jat: Umer Marvi / Various Artists: Glimpse of Kutchi Music / De Kulture (0:24:36 Pop-up)
From Kutch in far western Gujarat, India. This is a performance comprised of Bheth - short poetry verses.

Samir Chatterjee: Jhaaptaal (excerpt) / Tabla Trilogy / Biswas (0:35:41 Pop-up)
GIG: All Night Indian Classical Concert, TONIGHT, 8 pm to Sunday Morning, 5:30 pm at the Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W 64th St. in Manhattan.

Suphala: Eight and a Half Birds / Alien Ancestry / Tzadik / * (0:43:20 Pop-up)

Asian Dub Foundation: Riddim I Like / Community Music / Virgin France / 2000 (0:48:55 Pop-up)
GIG: Aug 8 (Fri) Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West at 9th St: Asian Dub Foundation performs a live soundtrack to the film THX 1138 / Taylor McFerrin. 7:30 pm.

Mari Boine, Inna Zhelannaya, Sergey Starostin: Pjesna Ljesorubov (Song of the Lumberjacks) / Winter in Moscow / Jaro Medien GmbH (0:58:30 Pop-up)
GIG: May 13 (Tues) at Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave. (at E 38 St): Mari Boine. 7 pm. Co-presented with Riddu Riđđu Festival and Center for Northern Peoples,

Gumbezarte Coope & Maio: Sufri / Camba Mar / Lusafrica (1:04:50 Pop-up)
From Guinea-Bissau

Ramiro Naka: Meu Trabaiho / Bikelia Ma Fiancée / Nakasadarte / 1988 (1:11:00 Pop-up)
From Guinea-Bissau

Bhundu Boys: Pombi / Friends on the Road / Cooking Vinyl (1:12:24 Pop-up)

Isidore Tamwo: Tchouanou / Tamwo / Tamwo Records (1:17:41 Pop-up)
From Cameroun - Sam Fan Thomas' Producer

Nyboma & Les Kamale Dynamiques du Zaire: Daward / Pepe / Maikano / 1983 (1:23:44 Pop-up)

Markus Schwartz & Lakou Brooklyn: Gede Drum-n-Bass / Equinox / Soundkeeper (1:28:19 Pop-up)

Jacques Schwartz-Bart: Toumblak / Sone Ka-La / Emarcy (1:43:23 Pop-up)
GIG: May 31 (Sat): Lycée Français de New York, 505 E 75th St: A benefit for the French Heritage Language Program, a nonprofit education program that brings free French classes to underserved French-speaking communities across the United States. Featuring Amidou & Toya, une comédie musicale de la Francophonie (performed by students of the French Heritage Language Program), as well as an exclusive performance by Haitian Star Emeline Michel and jazz master Jacques Schwarz-Bart. 6:30 - 8:30 pm.

Kassma Percussions: Wotoo / Kassoum Diarra / Playa Sound (1:47:38 Pop-up)

Guem: Le Serpent / Percussions / Le Chant du Monde / 1978 (1:50:31 Pop-up)

Mahmoud Fadl: Alara / The Drummers of the Nile Go South / Piranha (1:54:07 Pop-up)

Pece Atanasovski: Masko Berance / Makedonski Narodni Ora (Macedonian Folk Dances) / Olympic / 1979 (1:54:20 Pop-up)

Atanas Georgi Gergov: Snoshti Minaha Pre Solo Turtsi (Last Night the Infidel Turks Passed Through the Village) / Various Artists: Blowers from the Balkans / Topic (1:57:27 Pop-up)

Bagad Kemperle: Doucement Les Basses / Kejadenn / Silex / 1993 (2:00:40 Pop-up)

Bagad Men Ha Tan & Doudou N'Diaye Rose: Cayenne / Various Artists: The Rough Guide to France / World Music Network (2:02:06 Pop-up)

Trebunie Tutki: Nad Milloki / Saga / Goralsko Sila / F.F. Folk (2:11:48 Pop-up)

Zespół Muzyki Ludowej z Kościeliska Harcerski Zespół Muzyki Ludowej im. Bartusia Obrochty z Zakopanego: Track 12 / Various Artists: Na góralską nutę - Szumią smreki na gór szczycie (Na Goralska Nute, Podhale 3) / Gamma (2:17:18 Pop-up)
Music from Podhale, the highlands of southern Poland. Recorded by Antoni Karużas; ethnomusicological supervision by Jan Stęszewski.

Gronicki: W Murowanej Piwnicy / Corne Ocy / Tercet (2:20:36 Pop-up)

Shavaar Ali Khan: Filmein Shilmein / Background Score for the Bollywood Film Desi Boyz - but not included on soundtrack cd (2:22:53 Pop-up)

100 Folk Celsius: Nagy Budapesty Aszfalt Country / Country / Hungaraton (2:27:48 Pop-up)

Golem: 7:40 / Tanz / Corason Digital / * (2:32:37 Pop-up)

Kultur Shock: Duna / We Came to Take Your Jobs Away / Kool Arrow (2:35:55 Pop-up)

Oumar Konate: Henibombey (A Swindle is No Good) / Addoh / Clermont Music / * (2:51:53 Pop-up)
GIGs: Wed May 28, 11 pm @ Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St, Lower East Side; Thursday May 29, 8 pm @ Baby's All Right, Brooklyn, 146 Broadway, Brooklyn; Friday June 6 @ Meridian23, 161 W 23rd St, Chelsea.

Mokoomba: Njoka / Rising Tide / Zig Zag World (2:54:51 Pop-up)