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Today’s theme is Imagination Unlimited (by Claudio Corona). Quebec City Mexican-Canadian Boogat drops Del Horizonte with the album opener featuring Okan. From the imagination behind Eccodek and Peppermoth comes Sonova, funky grooves to heal a desperate world. Plus, Seville-based nuevo-flamenco from Yeli Yeli, and, in the words of Elisapie and The Westerlies, Wish You Were Here. World Beat Canada Radio!

Putumayo continues to make world music accessible to the globally-curious. We sample two of their latest compilations off the top. Talk about global music projects; Vancouver’s Los Furios have just released Old Ghosts recorded in different venues, studios, kitchens and hemispheres between Canada and New Zealand. We bring a debut. And, Elisapie from Nunavik in Northern Quebec recalls the radio hits that affected her on her new album of covers, Inuktitut. It’s hard to beat World Beat Canada!

Not all wonders are celestial. Consider this week’s playlist which transits from Sicily (Galathea) to Ecuador (Hermanos Guitierrez), intersecting new spins from CeU and Afro Celt Sound System. And, Skeewiff redux Nancy Sinatra. One of these days these beats are going to walk all over you. Submit to the best music you’ll never hear anywhere else but World Beat Canada Radio!

Opening new frontiers in Afrobeat from the most unexpected places! From Chile comes the 13 piece Newen Afrobeat featuring Fela Kuti’s former band leader, and London Afrobeat Collective celebrate Freedom. The two Ottawa founders of Souljazz Orchestra introduce us to Dystoh and a cover of the Payolas ’Eyes Of A Stranger’. Eccodek remixed and Yin Yin round out another eclectic hour of global grooves from World Beat Canada Radio.

Once again, it’s an embarrassment of brand new spins that keeps World Beat Canada well beyond the rest. This week a trio born in Moscow combine traditional folklore and electronic savvy as the Nickadimus Experience. ZA! and Perrate introduce us to experimental flamenco Dadaism on Joili Fanto, Kiran Ahluwalia serves up her entire menu for Comfort Food and we have the captivating closer PLUS we can finally shine the Light on Crystal Fighters new album. A feast for your ears each week!

Wrap your ears around some sassed-up Serbian Balkan brass. It’s our debut of the playful ShazaLaKazoo! Plus, more ginchy cool tropical from Cheo. And, first spins for Meril Wublin and Nabihah Iqbal. Vancouver’s Empanadas Ilegales share the most Canadian tune ever, Tobagan. From Coast to coast to coast, Canada loves its World Beat! Join us.