This week on Around the World
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Music from: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, Guinea, Haiti, India, Italy, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Portugal, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Wales.
Music by: Africa Express, Airdan, Ben Aylon & Roei Hermon, Cerys Hafana, Cheikh Lô, David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra, Divanhana, Eljuri, Estaca Zero, Gisela João, Guitari Baro, José Mário Branco, Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray, Lívia Mattos, Loko Gasy, Mahotella Queens, Molly Tuttle, Neha!, N’Faly Kouyaté, Ra di spina, Radio Tarifa, Roberta Gulisano, Saha Gnawa, Tone Of Voice Orchestra with Trinelise Væring & Fredrik Lundin, Woodlands & Bäckafall, andYasmine Hamdan
The featured album this week is O Mundo Dá Voltas by Brazilian band BaianaSystem.
BATUKERÊ - BaianaSystem ft. Antônio Carlos e Jocafi, Dino d’Santiago
BaianaSystem Spins the World with O Mundo Dá Voltas
Few bands embody the restless pulse of contemporary Brazil like BaianaSystem. With their latest release, O Mundo Dá Voltas, the Salvador-based collective once again proves that music can be both a weapon and a celebration. Known for fusing Afro-Bahian rhythms with dub, reggae, electronic textures, and sharp social commentary, BaianaSystem has built a reputation for turning concerts into communal events. This new album extends that ethos into a sweeping sound journey.
The record unfolds as a cycle of movement and return, echoing its title—“the world turns.” Opening with the ancestral call of Batukerê, featuring Dino d’Santiago alongside Antonio Carlos & Jocafi. D’Santiago, a Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer, long celebrated for weaving Afro-diasporic traditions with modern electronic textures grounds BaianaSystem’s energy in a deep Lusophone lineage. Alongside him, Antonio Carlos & Jocafi—icons of 1970s Bahian popular music—add a layer of historic resonance. Their harmonies recall the golden era of MPB, when samba, soul, and Afro-Brazilian rhythms were being reimagined for a new generation.
All of the songs on the album have guest musicians. Tracks like A Laje and Praia do Futuro (with Emicida, one of Brazil’s most respected hip‑hop voices, and Melly a rising voice in Brazil’s alternative R&B and neo‑soul scene), capture the contradictions of modern Brazil: beauty and struggle, hope and conflict. Elsewhere, Porta-Retrato da Família Brasileira and Magnata confront questions of identity, inequality, and survival with BaianaSystem’s trademark intensity.
Yet O Mundo Dá Voltas is not only about resistance—it is also about resilience. Songs such as Pote D’Água and Cobra Criada/Bicho Solto remind listeners of the strength found in family, community, and the refusal to be tamed. The album closes with Balacobaco and Ogun Nilê, invoking Carnival’s exuberance and the search for peace, leaving the listener suspended between past and future.
More than a collection of songs, O Mundo Dá Voltas is a manifesto of movement—political, spiritual, and musical. It is BaianaSystem at their most expansive: a reminder that in the turning of the world, there is always rhythm, resistance, and renewal.
Sources: Rhythm Passport - O MUNDO DÁ VOLTAS - BaianaSystem
Yasmine Hamdan - Shmaali شمالي (Official Music Video)
A pioneer of alternative Arabic music, Yasmine Hamdan (Soapkills, Ya Nass) returns with I Remember I Forget (بنسى وبتذكر), her first album in eight years. Blending trip‑hop atmospheres, electronic pulses, and Levantine melodies, she crafts songs that are both intimate and political. Tracks like Shmaali shimmer with hypnotic grooves, while her voice carries stories of memory, exile, and resilience. Hamdan’s music is a bridge between Beirut’s underground and the global stage, a reminder that even in turbulence, beauty and defiance endure.
Source: yasminehamdan.bandcamp.com - thequietus.com
Tourist at God’s Mercy - Tone Of Voice Orchestra, Trinelise Væring & Fredrik Lundin (a peek into the studio)
On November 7th, 2025 the award-winning genre-benders in Tone of Voice Orchestra return with new album Running from the Devil. As a preview they have released “Tourist at God’s Mercy”.
The song is described by the band as “a borderless expedition: a burst of Rio’s carnival spirit, a piper’s summit in coastal Brittany, a clearing in the Scandinavian woods. Each landscape melts into the next, stitched together by Tone of Voice Orchestra’s fearless blend of tradition and innovation.”
They go on to say “The imagery of the lyric echoes travelogues where someone claims to have “done Europe” in a week—without ever gaining a deeper sense of the place. Similar to how we try to get a grasp of what life and love is really about, while we still find ourselves fumbling in the dark.”
Tone of Voice Orchestra is a ten-piece Scandinavian rootsband founded in Copenhagen in 2018 by singer-songwriter Trinelise Væring and jazz saxophonist Fredrik Lundin. Their line-up includes: Four female vocalists, Hurdy‑gurdy, bagpipes, cittern, violin, saxophones, flutes, double bass and two drummers. Four vocalists and six instrumentalists, five women, five men, young talent as well as seasoned players.
Where and when to hear Around the World
Friday:
Akaroa World Radio 2:00 pm local New Zealand Time (3:00 am GMT 4:00 am CET)
NAR-GROUP Germany – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
Mosel Radio – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
NAR-Alf – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
Waterwaves Radio: 9:00 pm GMT (22:00 CET)
Saturday:
Best City Radio (Belfast) 6:00 am
Power 101FM Malawi: 11:00 local time
Flirt FM (Galway’s Community of Interest & Student Station) 101.3 10:45 am - 12 45 pm
RCFM (Radio City FM) Duisburg, Germany 3:00 – 5:00 pm CET
U Radio - Sri Lanka 8:00pm - 10:00 pm local time
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
Essential Radio Midnight to 2:00 am GMT (1:00 am CET)
Sunday:
West Coast FM Namibia 10:00 pm to 12:00 noon Central Africa Time (2:00 to 4:00 GMT)
Power 101FM Malawi: 12:00 local time
NFRS Osaka Japan: 12:00 noon local time (3:00 am UK time 4:00 am CET)
973FM in Singapore and 11:00 pm local time (3:00 pm/15:00 hours UTC – Universal Time).
Circl8 Chester: 12:00 noon
Best City Radio (Belfast) 3:00 pm
Websound Radio (Larne) 8:00 pm
DCRFM (Dover Community Radio 7:00pm
Slice Audio 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Monday:
Armagh City Radio 00:00 pm local time (01:00 pm CET)
SparkFlame Radio: 00:00 am GMT (01:00 CET)
Circl8 Chester: 12:00 noon
Stirling Community Radio 8:00 pm GMT (9:00 pm CET)
Waterwaves Radio: 9:00 pm GMT (22:00 CET)
BR2 Pure Gold Radio – Costa Blanca, Spain 10:00 pm local time (CET)
Akaroa World Radio 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
Tuesday:
Shire Extra: 8:00 pm GMT (21:00 CET)
Waterwaves Radio: 9:00 pm GMT (22:00 CET)
Wednesday:
World FM 4:00 am local New Zealand Time (5:00 pm Tuesday GMT, 6:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 4:00 am local time GMT (5:00 am CET)
Life Right Radio (London) 7:00 pm
Best City Radio (Belfast) 10:00 pm
Radio Skye (Radio Garden) 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)
Thursday:
Waterwaves Radio: 9:00 pm GMT (22:00 CET)