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.

Charles Hutagalung was an illustrious Indonesian singer/song writer and member of the legendary Indonesian 70s pop band The Mercy's. The following selections are from his album Flower Sound, a collection of Malayan songs dating back to the 60s.

A national hero to the Garifuna people, Andy Palacio preserved the roots of their rhythm and language through his musical creations. Listen in for a tribute to this influential artist who passed away in January 2008.

From the Indonesian island of Roti, Sasandu creates sounds using only instruments constructed of bamboo and coconut leaves. The recording is from the collection of the long-lost Tokyo-based King Record Company and is no longer findable except here.

Exploring a rare style of religious singing called "lining out" that dates back to before 1640 in America. These hymns and psalms are still alive in several regions of the the deep south and Scotland today. Produced by Nathan Salsburg.

Os Mutantes is the eclectic Brazilian rock band that typified (together with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil) the global futurism of the Tropicalista movement of Brazil in the late '60s.

David Grubbs, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, and founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol and is the man behind Rickets and Scurvy and other classic CDs produced this program of experimental rock - from Sweden!

Laura Andel presents music from the Winti tradition of Suriname, Argentinian composers Alejandro Iglesias-Rossi, Santiago Vazquez and Dino Saluzzi, Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, and more from the Afro-Peruvian coast and Bolivia.