David Weinstein hosts singer Qian Yi, composer Du Yun, musician/producer Dave Liang of the Shanghai Restoration Project, and Rachel Cooper of the Asia Society where a China-India symposium takes place Nov. 3-6, 2011. Not your mother's Chinese music.

Improvised music to accompany the dance of a usually-female shaman. Performed by an ensemble including Park Jong Sul-Changgo, Park Jung Sun-Ajaeng, Kim Bang Hyun-Taegum, Kim Chan Sub-Haegum, Han Se Hyon-Piri, Jung Jung Min-Ching, Hong Ok Mi-Haegum.

This past year saw the release of the incredible 10-CD box set Alan Lomax in Haiti. Elliot Stapleton speaks with ethnomusicaologist, Gage Averil,l about Lomax, Haitian music and his involvement with relief efforts to Haiti.

Congratulations, New York Gypsy Festival! This year marks the festival's fifth anniversary, and AIR's Jeannie Hopper talks with festival organizer Mehmet Dede about the growing popularity of the genre.

AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with Mehmet Dede, co-producer of Istanbulive:The Sounds & Colors of Turkey, and musicians Sertab Erener and Demir Demirkan, whose project Painted on Water is featured in the festival.

Keroncong is a genre of Indonesian music with a great deal of influence by the Portuguese, who dominated Southeast Asia in the late 1500s, and introduced to the local culture their indigenous styles and western elements Mariati is one of the masters.

For Venice Biennale 2007, producer Lucy Simanjuntak created a compilation that features traditional and contemporary songs from the islands of Indonesia.

Besides presenting music by master timbalero Jimmy Delgado and by the Spanish Harlem orchestra, Latin music expert Ned Sublette also makes sure you hear El Gran Combo, Chamaco Ramírez singing with Tommy Olivencia, and the young Gilberto Santa Rosa.

Music rescued by artist Michael Fabian from old vinyl recordings, probably from the 1940s and 1950s. A soora (or sura) is any of the 114 chapters or sections of the Koran (Quran).

Sounds with an Indian accent made, played or waylaid by New Delhi-based Punita Singh who explores sound in multiple contexts; as music, language, art and science. This show was produced with Peter Nagy for one of our Venice Biennale radio adventures.

Elliott Sharp plays tracks from the 1969-1975 Golden Years of Ethiopian pop from the Buda Musique set. Noted for its similarities to American rock and soul, Golden Years pop is easy on Western ears. Pitchfork rated the Hypnotic Grooves release a 9.2.

DJ Rekha is a producer, activist and founder of Basement Bhangra, Bollywood Disco, and Mutiny club nights. She was named one of the most influential South Asians in the United States by Newsweek magazine.