01 Staff Benda Bilili (Congo-Kinshasa) Kinshasa’s famous disabled band stand tall with driving funk and rolling rumba grooves. WOMEX 2009 Award winner

02 Ale Möller Band (Sweden/Greece/Senegal/ Mexico/Canada) International ensemble excite with untraditional combinations of traditional sounds

03 Ahilea (Macedonia/Austria) Stateless border-crosser smuggles in nu-pop and trad-hop from the Balkans

04 Boris Malkovsky (Israel) Button accordion master straddles the genres with his visionary compositions

05 Watcha Clan (France/Algeria) Marseilles’ musical nomads trading global roots, grooves and moves

06 Chet Nuneta (France) Voices and percussion ensemble create an imaginary folklore of the universal mind

07 Oreka TX (Spain) From the northern snows to the desert sands, Basque duo take the txalaparta where it’s never been before

08 Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider (Iran/USA) Inspirational meeting between Persian kamancheh master and American string quartet

09 Hasna el Becharia (Algeria/France/Italy) Venerable desert rocker plugs her electric guitar into her gnawa roots

10 Gilzene and The Blue Light Mento Band (Jamaica) Bringing the raw sounds of Jamaica’s original pop music back in the spotlight

11 Victor Démé (Burkina Faso) Debut album brings Mandigo singer international attention after a 30-year career in Burkina Faso

12 Deolinda (Portugal) Fado enhanced and energized by young Lisbon ensemble with stories to tell

13 Lepistö&Lehti (Finland) Leading lights of Finnish acoustic music create two-man orchestra with double bass and accordion

14 Mógil (Iceland/Belgium) Belgian-Icelandic collaboration produces unclassifiable contemporary chamber music

15 Hanggai (China) The Chinagrass revolution marches forward, bringing the sounds of the Mongolian steppes to the big city

16 Dulsori (South Korea) Pounding rhythms and roof-raising chants from dynamic Korean drumming ensemble

17 Parno Graszt (Hungary) Roma roots of Northeast Hungary from extended family orchestra

18 Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole (USA) The new accordion force out of Lafayette. The old-school Creole revival starts here

19 Orchestra Popolare Italiana (Italy) Energetic orchestra bringing contemporary interpretations of Southern Italian traditions

20 Yves Lambert et le Bébert Orchestra (Canada) Guiding light of Quebecois traditional music continues search for new means of expression – and finds them