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Themes echo through this week’s playlist from Debt (La Dette) by Skanderani to La Fin De L’economie (The End Of The Economy) from Aquaserge. Musicians are hurting like everyone else. New MIDIval​ PunditZ should soothe the nerves, CeU’s Chega Ma​is is a ​sweet distraction, Nordic pop from Finland’s Regina and Estrella Fugaz play Chis Isaac’s Wicked Game. Keeping time with the beat of the world on World Beat Canada!

Global grooves are greening the planet’s soundscape with fresh air and fertile imagination. Check out our debut of MIDIval PunditZ new album, Love and Machines, a Canadian crop including Okan and JER, Brazilian grooves celebrate new promise for the jewel of South America, from Abacaxepa to a belooped classic by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Catch a wave with World Beat Canada Radio!

We talk Autumn birthdays and welcome a bouncing baby mix of global sweetness. Ezra Collective start with Only Love, new to our family of Canadian worldbeaters, Flacco Slimm and JER, an Arab double shoutout to dark beauty from Samir LanGus and Acid Arab, Balthvs drive us through the In-N-Out, and where else will you hear island grooves from Rapa Nui? World Beat Canada Radio of course!

The world would be a better place if customer service played better music while you’re on hold. Take an hour to breathe in aural relief from new albums by Balthvs, Lagos Thugs, Zerzua and BaBa ZuLa, Latin flavours from Panasoma, Zuco 103 with Lee Scratch Perry and Algerian power pop from Souad Massi. Thanks, we’ll connect you now to World Beat Canada Radio!

We skim the cream off our new Top 30, serving up a rich mix of our favourite global rhythms. Check into BaBa ZuLa’a Otel Kaliforniya, Tiger Is Coming with new sounds from Leenalchi, Mexican Institute of Sound, Meridian Brothers & Beck collab on Ritmo Babilonia PLUS into the Laboratorio Tropical with Empanadas Illegales and new Conexiones from Los Bitchos. Bon Appetit from World Beat Canada!