The late Ustad Zakir Hussain, who was the world's preeminent tabla player, and santoor player Pandit Rahul Sharma, the son of santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma play in-studio.

Nigerian musician, singer, songwriter, and activist Seun Kuti, is the youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, and leads the Egypt 80 band. Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 play in-studio.

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and author Valerie June draws on a wide spectrum of American roots music. She and her band activate their superpowers of joy, in-studio.

New York-based early music group Ruckus plays with rock band energy, the groove and jangle of American roots music, and the improvisatory flair of a jazz combo. They play in-studio.

Sister duo CocoRosie collects musical detritus from other times, which they fashion into their own baroque, theatricalized pop. They play music from "Little Death Wishes", in-studio.

The extraordinary quartet of Sissoko-Segal-Peirani-Parisien mixes chamber music, French chanson, West African folk, and jazz for kora, cello, accordion, and sax, in-studio.

Harpist Ashley Jackson fuses music and storytelling in "Take Me To The Water" which celebrates the transportive nature of water, and of the rivers that unite us. She plays in-studio.

Guitarist and composer Rafiq Bhatia (Son Lux) and pianist and improviser Chris Pattishall play some of their filmic, sculpted, and evolving soundscapes, in-studio. 

Berlin-based producer and singer Jan Blomqvist makes song-oriented concert techno. His latest album, MUTE, riffs on silence with haunting melodies and pulsing beats. He plays in-studio.