



23 August 2026 - North African, Middle Eastern, Japanese folk reinvented, East European
Comparing a 1997 release with 2026 from Belgian-Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas, music from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Northern Africa around Mauritania. Also, Artists reinventing Japanese folk with influences from elsewhere .

16 August 2026 - #776 African pop, Italian, electro-latin, cross-cultural American
From Sicily, the group Nuhara have a sound like no other with folk sources melding with intense electronica. There's more from Puglia too, plus latin, Caribbean, West African singers and cross-cultural American music .

9 August 2026 - #775 Portugese connections, folk, hilife, reggae, structured jazz
Portugese, Brazilian and French cross-over, folk from Finland and Australia, hilife and afrobeat from Ghana, new reggae and folk from Uganda, Occitan voices, a song for our wild birds and some structured jazz .

2 August 2026 - #774 Northern Europe, Canada, Latin America, Sardinia, Japan with new releases
New Finnish electro-folk-pop; Agnes Obel who's about to visit Australia again; Celtic, Quebecois and Afro-Iranian music from Canada; tunes from Latin America; vocal and guitar music from Sardinia; Japanese taiko and gentle Cretan music via London .