Tinariwen release a new album, created in the desert, with Western inputs too.
The new “Rough Guide to Mali Blues” has seven previously unreleased tracks, one featured here.
Habib Koite is Malian guitarist and singer-songwriter.
Hope Masike is a singer and mbira player from Zimbabwe.
Two 1966 South African debut albums are re-released: the late renowned singer and activist Miriam Makeba, and the Mahotella Queens - recently to be found with the Africa Express team.
Lee Perry finds rumbling grooves to underpin his latest rambling musings.
Jamaican singer Wayne Stoddart invokes Martin Luther King.
German reggae outfit, Rootz Radicals, are offering their album as a free download.
Marcia Griffiths is reggae royalty with a career dating back to 1960s Bob & Marcia days.
Grup Dogus were a Turkish quartet, playing an Anatolian psychedelic rock in the ’70s.
Meszecsinka, from Hungary, play an indie folk-rock style with dark undertones.
Ateshkhan Yuseinov is a Bulgarian guitarist of many styles.
The Dhoad Gypsies recreate the songs and music of the old courts of the Maharajas.
Birkin Tree are an Italian band playing Irish music.
Benedicte Maurseth, from Hardanger in Norway, plays ruminative music on the local brand of fiddle.
Laurie Anderson guides us through the Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Iranian kemenche fiddle master, Kayhan Kalhor, collaborated with a Dutch jazz trio.
Guo Gan combines his erhu fiddle with two Turkish musicians on saz and percussion.
Quintetto Nigra sing the traditional songs of Italy’s Piedmont region.
Here is the playlist for "Ear to the globe" broadcast on Monday September 9th. The programme goes out every Monday at 10pm to midnight on 103.2FM and is available live at www.dublincityfm.ie