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Bellowhead: Umbrellowhead

A compilation of songs by the folk big band’s individual members

Mayra Andrade: Stória, Stória …

Second CD from the Cape Verdean singer

Céu: Vagarosa

Familiar Brazilian tropes from the tropilectro singer

Nagore Sessions: Nagore Sessions

A collaboration of shrine singers from Tamil Nadu

Clara Sanabras and The Real Lowdown: Hopetown House

Barcelonan singer’s first album under her own name

Le Vent du Nord: La Part Du Feu

A trawl back through Quebec’s Francophone history

Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores: La Bodega

Cumbia’s international ambassador combines African polyrhythms with European brass bands

Abaji: Origine Orients

An instrumentalist’s album from the Lebanese musician

Mhairi Hall Trio: Cairngorm

The band sets eighteenth-century Scottish reels, strathspeys and airs

Julie Fowlis: Uam

Third solo album from the Scots-Gaelic singer

Rachid Taha: Bonjour

Cesaria Evora: Nha Sentimento

Thandiswa: Ibokwe

Miriam Makeba: Mama Afrika 1932-2008

Portico Quartet: Isla

Show of Hands: Arrogance, Ignorance And Greed

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