Hear music from the steppes of Central Asia on this New Sounds with the growly rumbles and high-pitched whistles of throat singing by Huun Huur Tu, The HU, and Sainkho Namtchylak. 

Hear hybrid music of the Indian subcontinent blended with opera, pop, and jazz in work by sitarists Jasdeep Singh Degun and Anoushka Shankar, and tabla player Sarathy Korwar.

Hear music inspired by Shakespeare's plays: Otello, Macbeth, and The Tempest from Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene; the vibraphone supergroup UŽUPIS; and Caroline Shaw/Roomful of Teeth.

There’s music inspired by and collected from the natural world by London saxophonist and bandleader Cassie Kinoshi; New York-based Saapato; and Colombia’s Simón Mejía working as Monte.

Hear works from "Finding Home," the second studio album from the “queen of qanun," Syrian musician Maya Youssef. Plus music by Iraqi-American trumpeter and santur player Amir ElSaffar.

Hear an hour of Irish story-songs in music from Franco-Italian duo Varo, Americans Anna & Elizabeth, Anglo-Indian singer Sheila Chandra, and the Irish bands Lankum and Ye Vagabonds. 

Hear new music featuring unexpected flutists Shabaka (Hutchings) and rapper Andre 3000, solo, and with vocalist Ganavya, American saxophonist Kamasi Washington, and drummer Yusef Dayes.

Hear inadvertent songs from the late New York-based composer and guitarist Scott Johnson, UK composer/violist Jocelyn Pook, and American Minimalist composer Steve Reich.

Listen to composer David Cieri’s new score to the 1928 film "The Passion of Joan of Arc", including Sardinian vocal quartet Tenores de Aterúe, recorded in Jan. 2023 at Brookfield Place.