Bands and Artists Worldbeat Regional and Ethnic Styles

For musicians, composers, and groups writing, recording, or performing worldbeat music.

• - An African fusion band from Mauritius. Site features background, influences, radio stream, and reviews.
  
• - An ethnic fusion duo, comprised of Iranian-born vocalist Azam Ali and American percussionist Greg Ellis. Features biography, photos, calendar and discography.
  
• - Group from the Seattle area, combining the allure of the steel drums with distinctive percussion and original ideas. With background, pictures, show dates, audio and merchandise.
  
• - Ottawa, Canada-based, seven member band, playing a fusion of traditional African with rock and folk. With background, news, profiles, discography, lyrics, press, and links.
  
• - Official site for an upcoming Indian-fusion band. Featuring background, audio samples, reviews, and photographs.
  
• - Swedish/African afro band. Biography, audio, and links.
  
• - Record label and site for musician and onetime member of Public Image Limited. With biography, release information, reviews, interviews, and links.
  
• - A group experimenting with music and instruments across culture, including West Africa, Korea, Turkey, Indonesia, New Zealand Maori, China, India and South America. With member background and biographies.
  
• - Home of the violinist and singer featured on Sheryl Crow's 1999 world tour and John Tesh's PBS special "One World". With discography, biography, pictures and song clips.
  
• - Culture-crossing band weaving Celtic, Middle Eastern and African influences together with exotic percussion. With sound clips, press, biography, and related links.
  
• - A percussion group from Spain combining tribal rhythms, trance, hip-hop, soul, guitar and electronic music. With RealAudio sound files.
  
• - New alchemy of modern and ancient music styles, developed by this singer/percussionist, Rikhi Hambra. With project background, CDs, pictures, and sound samples.
  
• - Independent artist blending traditional themes, classic rock and Renaissance electronic on guitar and synthesizer. Site features biography, discography, reviews and MP3 music samples.
  
• - World-influenced band on Six Degrees Records. With background, discography, studio information, and links.
  
• - A Belgian musical ensemble that plays a fusion of styles based on Indian and Flemish music. With artist information, sound clips and background.
  
• - A "Balkanistic" boogie dance band from the UK. With background, discography, MP3s, and links.
  
• - Devoted to the worldbeat music of this songwriter. Includes biography, lyrics and samples of his work.
  
• - Fusing rural/urban aesthetics to create alternative dance with drum'n'bass leanings. Site includes mp3s and bios.
  
• - Plays "New Orleans Tropical", a potent blend of Caribbean, Latin, and African music styles with a New Orleans sensibility. With background, brief member profiles, discography, and song clips.
  
• - New age world fusion project from Germany. With biographies, discography, sound clips and full songs, pictures, studio information and links.
  
• - A fan site for the artist with background and release information.
  
• - Official artist site with biography, discography, song clips, and project information including solo releases, Comet9, and the show Spirit.
  
• - Sensual vocals, rhythmic world guitar and gypsy violin combine to create the music of this world fusion group. IUMA.com artist page includes biography, MP3s, and pictures.
  
• - A world beat artist based in Houston, Texas. With song samples and downloads and basic biography.
  
• - Anglophone Caribbean music with blues guitar, sax, and doo-wop style vocals. Centered upon the baritone vocals, guitar work and songwriting of Reggie Benn.
  
• - New York group featuring the tambin flute playing of Bailo Bah. Site includes information on the tambin, and mp3s, recording liner notes, and event calendar.
  
• - A Sufi music ensemble, featuring western and middle eastern instrumentation, English lyrics of translated Sufi ecstatic love poetry, and Arabic chants. With biography, lyrics, samples, and release ordering.
  
• - A London-based fusion project mixing funk, world music and ambient sounds to create a sensuous and upbeat mix. With upcoming release information and sound clip.
  
• - Site about traditional west African music and artists, including information about international kora player from Senegal, Seckou Keita, and his band Jamoral.
  
• - An African-influenced vocal group from Edmonton, Canada. Band information, sample MP3s and CD ordering.
  
• - A German band sometimes referred to as the "grandfathers of worldbeat". Official site features news, discography, biography, pictures, reviews, lyrics, MP3s, and links.
  
• - A Scotland based African reggae band performing Liberian folk with Celtic and Spanish influence. Includes song clips, news and pictures.
  
• - Band from Germany combining reggae and rumba with a bit of jazz, samba, dub, ska, cumbia, and hip-hop. With description, MP3s, and pictures.
  
• - A multi-leveled lyricist and social critic with a "scratchy, soulful voice." Music includes rhythms from the Congo, Kilapanga, Cabo Verde, Brasil and (the Portuguese) Sodade.
  
• - Weaves hypnotic violin and guitar melodies over layers of vocal chants, trance rhythms and deep grooves. With news, events, biography, discography, reviews, art and picture galleries, and online shopping.
  
• - Completely spontaneous improvisation creates an unusual variety of sonic textures, from sparsely ambient to richly dense. The ensemble performs on instruments from western and world music traditions, homemade and found instruments, and percussion.
  
• - Indian/ambient world fusion group featuring the sitar. With RealPlayer clips, CD details, sitar and tabla information, and background on the artists.
  
  

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