Hear the duo of guitarist Lee Ranaldo with ambient zither player Laraaji; plus Medicine Singers with Lee Ranaldo, Yonatan Gat and his trio, from the 25th Annual New York Guitar Festival.

Hear music by The Kasambwe Brothers from Malawi, The Owiny Sigoma Band from Kenya, and Rwanda-based band, The Good Ones. Plus, music from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and Congo.  

Hear contemporary works that grow out of J.S. Bach. by cellist Clarice Jensen; from violinist and composer Pauline Kim Harris; and work by the late British composer Steve Martland.

Hear pieces using voices to create a place by Lithuanian composer Zibuokle Martinaitytė, Kenyan composer/sound artist Nyokabi Kariuki, and American composer John Luther Adams.

There's music by Chennai-based Karnatik vocalist Aditya Prakash, Pakistani-American vocalist, composer, and producer Arooj Aftab, and Brooklyn-based Indian singer Priya Darshini.

Hear music that's not quite "jazz", in work from saxophonists James Brandon Lewis and JD Allen, storyteller/saxophonist Matana Roberts, and work by drummer/composer Allison Miller.

Electric violinist L. Shankar plays everything from Indian classical to Western instrumental pop and worked with Frank Zappa and Peter Gabriel. He plays, solo, in-studio.

Electric violinist L. Shankar plays everything from Indian classical to Western instrumental pop and worked with Frank Zappa and Peter Gabriel. He plays, solo, in-studio.

Hear works by the late Pauline Oliveros, Hawaiian composer Leilehua Lanzilotti, and minimalist composer Terry Riley, recorded at the 2025 Ojai Music Festival.