| Artist | Album | Title | Label | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abana Ba Nasery | Nursery Boys Go Ahead: the Guitar and Bottle Kings of Kenya | Abakambi | Green Linnet-Xenophile | No |
| Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou | The Bariba Sound 1970-1976 | Me Ton Le Gbe (Pachanga Fon) | Analog Africa | No |
| Mighty Popo | Gakondo | Impunga | Borealis Records | No |
| Papa Susso | Sotuma-Sere | Allah L'a Ke | Traditional Crossroads | No |
| Damily | Ela Lia | Miroroa | Helico | No |
| Onuma Singsiri | The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975 | Mae Kha Som Tam | Soundway Records | No |
| Dengue Fever | Cannibal Courtship | Sister in the Radio | Fantasy | No |
| Dengue Fever | Cannibal Courtship | 2012 (Bury Our Heads) | Fantasy | No |
| Poeta Magica | Ragnar | Kom Nu Gubbar | No | |
| Idir & Zebda | Identités | Un Homme Qui N'a Pas de Frère... | St George-Sony France | No |
| Robert Loechler | Far and Near | Raga Ess | Self-released | No |
| Andrew Cronshaw | On the Shoulders of the Great Bear | Rakkain Jesu | Topic | No |
| Kol Simcha | Klezmer Soul | Negev | HOS-World Class | No |
| Khaled | Khaled | Liah Liah | Barclay / Mango-Island | No |
| Whitney Houston | Whitney Houston | Greatest Love of All | Arista | No |
| Jerry Garcia & David Grisman | Shady Grove | Dreadful Wind and Rain | Acoustic Disc | No |
| Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko | Africa to Appalachia | Dakar | Self-released | No |
| Jerry Garcia & David Grisman | Shady Grove | Jackaroo | Acoustic Disc | No |
| Ondatrópica | Ondatrópica | Punkero Sonidero | Soundway Records | Yes |
| Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang | En Yay Sah | Tay Su Tan-Tan | Luaka Bop | Yes |
| Imamyar Hasanov and Pejman Hadadi | Sound of My Soul | Ganjadan Galiram | Self-Released | No |
| Χειμερινοί Κολυμβητές | Χειμερινοί Κολυμβητές | Τώρα Που Παντρεύεσαι | Lyra | No |
| Χειμερινοί Κολυμβητές | Χειμερινοί Κολυμβητές | Ψείρες | Lyra | No |
| Antibalas | Antibalas | Ìbéjì [Twins] | Daptone | Yes |
| Bush Tetras | Very Very Happy | Too Many Creeps | ROIR | No |
| Lua Hadar with Twist | Like a Bridge | Sukiyaki/Ue O Muite Aruko | Bellalua Records | Yes |
"Worlds of Music" presents the traditional and contemporary sounds that could be found anywhere in the world. On the program one may hear anything from anonymously recorded chants or work songs of an isolated or bygone culture on to trip-hop or club sounds by urban expatriates where cultural boundaries are fuzzy.