RootsWorld Radio

Series produced by Cliff Furnald

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Global music radio with a different outlook.

Global music radio with a different outlook. Host and editor Cliff Furnald explores the world's music with little concern for age, genre or country of origin. It's all music, it's all "world."


90 Pieces

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Caption: Checkpoint 303
The 163rd edition of RootsWorld radio will feature a number of tracks from the Palestinian collective called Checkpoint 303 . The Iqrit Files is an...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
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On RootsWorld Radio #122, we'll hear a lot of new music - from Italy, Norway, Honduras, the Nile River Basin, Cameroon and Sweden - as well as a fe...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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On the 123rd edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll feature two recordings that could easily make my personal Top 10 list for 2014. We'll also visit Ma...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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On the 124th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll listen to brand new music from Coco Mbassi (Cameroon), Djessou Mory Kanté (Guinea), Spiro (UK), Tri...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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This week, we feature the music of the Denmark-based band Basco, in an excerpt from a concert with the Danish Radio Big Band, and later in the show...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
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On the 126th edition of RootsWorld radio, we'll explore new visions from Moravia, Czech Republic, northern Europe and the south of France.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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The 127th edition of RootsWorld Radio will feature more music and less chatter. We'll start with some old Afro-jazz from Sweden, match that with a...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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On the 128th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll hear a special concert by the Danish instrumental ensemble Dreamers' Circus. Playing violin, citter...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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RootsWorld Radio #133 presents some of the editor's noteworthy recordings of 2014. It's not so much a "best of" list as simply my musings on the mu...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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On the 130th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we will feature some Brazilian jazz, Malagasy and Norwegian folk-pop, café musette from Belgium and much ...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
Caption: Tambolero, Credit: CD Cover
Totó La Momposina has brought Afro-Colombian roots to the world and with a new Real World Records release, her music is more vital than ever.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:55
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RootsWorld Radio goes silent (well, at least the host does), with a full program of nothing but non-stop music from Brazil, Mali, the US, Thailand,...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:48
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On the 103rd edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll go surfing with Sufi's, wave a flag in Marseilles, get the fuzz tones of Mali, have a bit of sukiya...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:43
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A little bit of fiddling starts us off this week, from Swedish duo Josefina Paulson & Jonas Ackerman and the Estonian/Swedish Duo Jansen Jüssi. Fro...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
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On the 105th edition of RootsWorld Radio, Cliff Furnald will take you from New Orleans to Nassau, from Brasilia to Bangkok, from your back porch to...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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"There's No Such Thing As African Music: Volume 2" includes music from Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Angola, Gabon, Mauritania and some surprise side trip...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:43
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RootsWorld Radio #107 finds us roaming through Denmark and Finland, encountering theior own versions of country music before hitting New Orleans fo...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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RootsWorld Radio #108 starts off with some rough and rugged new music from Poland and some jazz from Turkey. We cruise the Nordic countries, drop i...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:39
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On the 109th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll be visiting a number of imaginary borders, between Iran and Norway, Belgium and Palestine, Scotland...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
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On the 110th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we start off with some small pipes from Britain, then head into folk, pop and jazz connections with piano...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 58:45