This Week's Playlist:

Ziad Rahbani: Sayidi Aatina / Kyrie Eleison (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Bappi Lahiri: Everybody Dance With Me / College Girl (Bollywood Soundtrack) / Polydor / 1976 (0:03:23 Pop-up)

Dur-Dur Band: Garsore Waa Ilaah / Volume 5 / Awesome Tapes From Africa / * (0:06:25 Pop-up)
Recorded at Radio Mogadishu, Somalia, 1987

Morteza Mahjoobi: Sabr Kon / Various Artists: Tisheh O Risheh: Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation / Pharaway Sounds / * (0:12:42 Pop-up)
New compilation

Beti: Hele Dan Dan / Various Artists: Sedayeh Del: Funk, Psychedelia And Pop From The Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation / Pharaway Sounds / * (0:17:52 Pop-up)
New compilation

Rokia Traoré: Sikey / Beautiful Africa / Nonesuch / * (0:28:33 Pop-up)
Released in Europe, although I believe not yet officially released in North America.

Samba Toure: Walahi Mbafo / Various Artists: Festival au Desert 2012 / Clermont / * (0:31:39 Pop-up)

Imharhan: Aichata / Various Artists: Festival au Desert 2012 / Clermont / * (0:36:33 Pop-up)
Playing a free concert in NY July 31 (Wed) at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Damrosch Bandshell: 6:30 pm: Festival au Désert — Caravan for Peace: Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa (NY debut) + Imharhan (NY debut) Tartit + Mamadou Kelly (NY debut)

Bombino: Zigzan / Nomad / Nonesuch / * (0:40:38 Pop-up)
Playing: Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park Bandshell, June 21; Brooklyn Bowl July 30; Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall Dec 6.

Tartit: Democratie / Various Artists: Festival au Desert 2012 (0:44:25 Pop-up)
Also on the bill for Festival au Désert free concert July 31 at Lincoln Center Out of Doors

King Ayisoba: Africa / Modern Ghanaians / * (0:54:45 Pop-up)

Ebo Taylor: Saana / Ebo Taylor / Mr Bongo / * (0:59:20 Pop-up)
New reissue

Jazz des Jeunes: Sansons Amoureuses / Super Jazz des Jeunes / Ibo (1:04:51 Pop-up)

Femi Kuti: Carry On Pushing On / No Place For My Dream / Knitting Factory Records / * (1:08:34 Pop-up)
At Central Park Summerstage with Sinkane, Sunday afternoon June 23

Frankie Dante: Dame Un Tipi / Various Artists: Rough Guide to Latin Psychedlia / World Music Network / * (1:12:37 Pop-up)

Red Baraat: Mast Qalandar / Shruggy Ji (1:16:21 Pop-up)
Playing at the Clearwater Festival, Croton-on-Hudson NY, June 16 (they're also playing RIGHT NOW at the Googa Mooga festival in Prospect Park, Brooklyn!)

Stereo Partizan: Balkan Bhangra / Balkan Circus / Blue Gypsy Records (1:21:37 Pop-up)

Shava Featuring King G: Päälliköt on Voittamattomii / Betoninen Kotimaani (1:26:11 Pop-up)
Finnish (!) bhangra band playing Studio 2012, Hamilton, NJ on Sun June 9, the Shrine in Harlem Tues June 11 and also earlier dates in Vancouver and nearby.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan: Tere Mast Mast Do Nain (Remix) / Various Artists: Dabangg (Bollywood Soundtrack) (1:30:19 Pop-up)
Performing at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, Long Island on Sat June 15

Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra: Bollywood / Various Artist: Bollywood Fusions (1:34:55 Pop-up)

Quitapenas: Mas Tropical (Sinkane Remix) (1:38:06 Pop-up)
Sinkane is at Maxwell's on June 16th, also on the bill with Femi Kuti at Summerstage and participating in Red Hot and Fela later in the summer at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, I believe.

Celso Piña with Blanquito Man, Control Machete: El Tren / Mundo Colombia (1:40:54 Pop-up)

Chicha Libre: Alone Again Or / Cuatro Tigers / Barbes (1:45:30 Pop-up)

Koby Israelite: Two Colonels / Blues From Elsewhere / Asphalt Tango / * (1:58:28 Pop-up)

Maniacs vs. Sharkiat: Om el Khair / Don't Climb the Pyramids / Barraka Al Farnatshi / * (2:02:40 Pop-up)

Emel Mathlouthi: Ya Tounes Ya Meskina (Poor Tunisia) / Kelmti Horra (2:06:04 Pop-up)
Playing at FIAF Florence Gould Hall 55 East 59th St, Wednesday May 22, 8 pm (part of the World Nomads Tunisia festival). She wrote this song while a student at the Université de Tunis in 2005. Though now living in Paris, her concert in Sfax, Tunisia was considered influential in the Tunisian revolution of early 2011 that kicked off the Arab Spring (she dedicated the concert to the revolutionary cause).

A Hawk and a Hacksaw: You Have Already Gone to the Other World / You Have Already Gone to the Other World (2:10:53 Pop-up)
Playing a free concert at Lincoln Center Rubinstein Atrium, 61 W 62 St. at Broadway on Thursday May 23 at 7:30 pm (get there early to make sure you can get in)

Omar Souleyman: Dabke 2011 / Highway To Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds Of Syria / Sublime Frequencies / 2007 (2:15:00 Pop-up)

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: E Chora' Tu Anemu / Pizzica Indiavolata / * (2:24:31 Pop-up)
With Ballake Sissoko

Artist Uncredited: Duj Duj / Various Artists: Music from Yugoslavia (Musique du Monde Series)) / Buda Musique (2:25:52 Pop-up)
Credited as "danse tzigane" (minorités nationales)

Samuel Le Henanff Quartet: Thank you ... beaucoup ! Merci ... very much (2:32:52 Pop-up)
Playing the annual St Yves’s Breton-style Fest Noz: along with Duo Helias/Gerard, and Sylvain Payot, tonight at Connolly’s Times Square, 121 45th St 3rd Fl - groups rotate until 2 am - plus other events in NY on Sun, Mon and Tues - details / info at http://bzh-ny.org.

Don Cavalli: You and My Zundapp / Temperamental / * (2:36:26 Pop-up)

Lemon Bucket Orchestra: Adje Jano / Cheeky (2:38:54 Pop-up)
From Toronto. The band performs in La MaMa's Fire. Water. Night: When Trees Move and Women Burn - A World Music Theatre Performance On the Move by Yara Arts Group. June 7-16, Thursday-Saturday 7:30 pm, Sunday 2:30 + Sunday June 9 at 7:00 at La MaMa in the good old East Village.