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Pick your spot in the sun and spend an hour contemplating life with a global soundtrack. It's new music fresh from the source, with soulful debuts from Indian Man and Canadian Nigerian, Sojiii. Kayam…

Down on the World Beat farm we hand-pick every single single from a bounty of new summer releases. And, this week we present an encore hour of only debuts, including The Zawose Queens from Tanzania, …

All new, all debuts! It's a full hour spotlighting our most recent arrivals, from Angelica Garcia and Alex Henry Foster to Seun Kuti, Sinsei 80, Sonova and Tasheeno! From the underground to the leadi…

It 's International Surf Music Month and National Accordion Awareness Month! There are a lot of ways to celebrate June. We choose debuts of the best in global grooves like: flamenco synthpunk from Se…

Diversify your global investment with an hour of what the world is listening to! Groove Professor, Jef Stott gets us started with new ear candy. Tunisian-American EMEL introduces 100% woman-made musi…

The world gifts us her best spins this week! You gotta love an album that starts with a flourish and ends with a bang. We debut the closer from Bab L'Bluz' new release. Mexican-Canadian Boogat shares…

The sounds of our ancestors morph into the future with digital creativity! Debuting a global sci-fi soundtrack from DJ Raff and La Yegros. Radio fans, Los Furios salute the airwaves with another spin…

Today's theme is Imagination Unlimited (by Claudio Corona). Quebec City Mexican-Canadian Boogat drops Del Horizonte with the album opener featuring Okan. From the imagination behind Eccodek and Peppe…

Putumayo continues to make world music accessible to the globally-curious. We sample two of their latest compilations off the top. Talk about global music projects; Vancouver's Los Furios have just r…

Opening new frontiers in Afrobeat from the most unexpected places! From Chile comes the 13 piece Newen Afrobeat featuring Fela Kuti's former band leader, and London Afrobeat Collective celebrate Free…

Once again, it's an embarrassment of brand new spins that keeps World Beat Canada well beyond the rest. This week a trio born in Moscow combine traditional folklore and electronic savvy as the Nickad…

Wrap your ears around some sassed-up Serbian Balkan brass. It's our debut of the playful ShazaLaKazoo! Plus, more ginchy cool tropical from Cheo. And, first spins for Meril Wublin and Nabihah Iqbal. …

Join us for rockin' Moroccans (new Bab L'Bluz and Sami Galibi), tropical hot sauce from Montreal (MTL Sauce Picante), hypnotic Portuguese from Sus, Nigerian slow cook from Dele Sosimi and The Estuary…

An hour that totally rocks off the top! Tokyo Ska Paradise debut an action-packed cinematic soundtrack for The Last Ninja, then frenetic Tuareg shredder Mdou Moctar unleashes the first single for a f…