Artist	Song
Hugh Masekela	Khauleza
from Grazing In the Grass - The Best of Hugh Masekela (2001)
Geoffrey Oryema	Land of Anaka
from Exile (2007)
Ivo Papasov / Yuri Yunakov	Na Trapeza
from Together Again: Legends of Bulgarian Wedding Music (2005)
Oum Kalthoum	Ya Laylet El-id Insitina
from Al Sett (La Dame / The Lady) (2005)
Black Uhuru	Party Next Door
from Liberation - The Island Anthology (1993)
Caetano Veloso	Um Canto de Afoxe Para O Bloco Do Lle (Lle Aye)
from Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical (2003)
The Klezmatics	Kats Un Moyz (Cat and Mouse)
from Rise Up! (2003)
Cheb Mami	Ana mazel
from Kings of Raï (2004)
Lola Beltrán	Corazón, Corazón
from Lola Beltrán Canta las Canciones Más Bonitas de José Alfredo Jiménez (2003)
Mari Boine	Gula Gula
from The Chilluminati Remixes (2004)
Kassav'	San Ayen
from Ktoz (2004)
Kaouding Cissoko	Ditax Kora
from Kora Revolution (1999)
Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria	Rofinka Lies Ill (Rufinka Bolna Legnala)
from Bulgarian Choral Folk Songs, Vol.2 (2007)
Manjula Guru & S.P. Balasubrahmanyam	The Light of Life: Dancing Is Beautiful
from Asia Classics 1: Dance Rajah Dance - The South Indian Film Music of Vijaya Anand (2000)
Tarika	Tsy kivy (Don't Be Discouraged)
from Son egal (2006)
Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Rafiq Sagar & Usha Uthup	Ae Tum Bahar Kahan
from Pyara Dushman (2004)
Issa Bagayogo	Dya
from Tassoumakan (2007)
Sevara Nazarkhan	Galdir
from Yol Bolsin (2007)
Mouth Music	Thoir a Nall Ailean Thugam
from Global Passion - A Nettwerk Compilation (2004)
Natacha Atlas	Kidda
from Halim (1997)
Enzo Enzo	Les yeux ouverts
from Enzo Enzo: Les essentiels (2002)
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté	Iga Bani
from In the Heart of the Moon (2005)
Te Vaka	Pate Pate
from Ki mua (2008)

Comment:

[i]Pipa[/i] (Chinese lute) player Min Xiao-Fen, best known for her collaboration with Björk on [i]Volta[/i], transports us to a distant and ancient Eastern realm of lotus flowers and incense in "Sounds from the Chen and Sui Dynasties" from her album [i]Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night[/i]. Former Baaba Maal sideman Kaouding Cissoko plucks a very different sort of string — this one on the African harp/lute known as a [i]kora[/i] — on his fusion of Latin jazz and Senegalese folk traditions in "Ditax Kora." And Gypsy clarinetist Ivo Papasov and singer Yîldîz Ibrahimova invite us behind the scenes at a wedding on the Greek-Bulgarian border in their Romany-meets-Klezmer nuptial tune "The Contest."

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