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Marisa Anderson releases The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music via Thrill Jockey, drawing from Uzbek, Yemeni, Afghan, Armenian and Vietnamese traditions to ask what gets excluded when a country tells itself stories about roots.
Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove release Room Jhoom, a collaborative project that moves between ghazal, qawwali, Sufi influence, pop and Hindustani classical reference points, inviting listeners into a room where cultural histories do not need to be flattened to meet each other.
N’Famady Kouyaté plays The Sunflower Lounge in Birmingham on 11 May, bringing his modern take on West African Mandingue music into a UK indie venue.
Bandcamp highlights Yatta! as a bright, rhythmic record that plays like a transport device—part groove archaeology, part sci-fi disco.