World Archives
10 Remixes, Les Negresses Vertes - Esther Perel, the therapist who wrote Mating in Captivity, has a radical explanation for marital bed death.
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane -     A Love Supreme John Coltrane On December 9, 1964 --- as I write, forty years ago to the day --- tenor saxophonist John Col
Abdel Wright -     Abdel Wright How's this for a Cinderella story? The boy never knew his father.
Ali Farka Toure - March 7, 2006 - Ali Farka Toure died in his sleep last night.
Amadou & Mariam: 'We'll shop with Gwyneth Paltrow' - Decades after they had to leave Mali to launch any kind of career in music, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are its best known citizens.
Amadou & Mariam: Dimanche a Bamako - Do you like music that makes you happy? I don't mean moderately happy, 7.5 on a scale of 10, isn't it a great day happy, kind of sort of happy.
Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali - Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have climbed to the pinnacle of World Music.
Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective - In warm weather, late at night and in the dark, we listen to Watina, the masterpiece by Andy Palacio and the Garufuna Collective. I wrote ab
Catch A Fire, The Wailers - Think back to 1973. The great rock revolution of the ‘60s was over. Music had become what it is now: a business.
Cesaria Evora - We’re on the Caribbean island closest to Africa, staying where the fancy people do, on the protected coast.
Chants Of India, Ravi Shankar & George Harrison - May all be happy. May all be healthy. May all experience what is good and let no one suffer.
Divas of Mali -     Divas of Mali Bamako, the capital of Mali, is deriv
Djivan Gasparyan - In the middle of the night, when it’s so quiet that you can barely hear the breeze, what kind of music would you want to hear?
Facing Future, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -     Facing Future by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole     Back when he had a Desk Job, Butler automatically began the day by
Fajar di Atas Awan, Suarasama - Fajar di Atas Awan Suarasama Few things are more fun than having something terrific that no one has --- or even knows
Gloria Estefan -     Gloria Estefan: "Like coming home, but not to the old Cuba" Videos No Llores (from '90 Millas') with Carlos Santana and Sh
Khaled - Khaled’s New York concert was to have been held shortly after 9/11, but what were the chances that Arabs living in Europe were getting on planes
Krishna Das: Heart As Wide As The World - 1968. I was getting straight As in my final year at Harvard. I had a book contract with The Viking Press.
Macire, Boubacar Traore -     What is the weight of the soul? Nothing. It is weightless.
Manu Chao - Everywhere we went in Italy, we heard Me gustas tu --- it was that summer's theme song. And deservedly so.