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With influences as far-ranging as traditional ranchera, jazz, opera, and cumbia, the Minnesota and Oaxaca-raised Mexican singer/folklorist Lila Downs performs in-studio with Ana Tijoux. (episode)
New Zealand artist Marlon Williams has a seductively haunting honey-smooth voice. Following a breakup in 2018, his latest songs made beauty from heartbreak, (Archives.) (episode)
The Southwestern band Calexico performs mariachi and cumbia-laced songs for the end times from their 2018 record, "The Thread That Keeps Us." (episode)
North Carolina-rooted songwriter and composer Rhiannon Giddens and Kentucky-rooted songwriter Dirk Powell combine banjos, fiddles, and piercing songs to explore a lost time in history. (episode)
London-based Curse of Lono is named for the Hunter S. Thompson book, and their cinematic southern gothic songs might be a great companion for a late night drive. They play remotely. (episode)
With Baroque pop, Nina Simone, & Brian Eno as touchstones, hear the dreamlike minimalist folk music by Richmond duo Lean Year, in-studio. (episode)
String quintet Sybarite5 join John Schaefer in-studio to perform new chamber works written just for them, from their recent crowd-funded record, "Outliers." (episode)
Minneapolis-based Pow Wow singer Joe Rainey of the Ojibwe community centers his voice within bass-heavy experimental electronic textures in collaboration with producer Andrew Broder. (episode)
The New York-based seven-piece band Anbessa Orchestra plays Ethiopian-style, horn-heavy funk, in-studio. There's also an Ethio-scales music theory lesson within... (From the Archives.) (episode)