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ECM solo debut of leading Norwegian Hardanger fiddler, violinist and viola d’amore player Nils Økland. Monograph features subtle, approachable, exploratory, intensely melodic music that is both rooted in Northern folk traditions and rises above them to produce utterly timeless sounds.

Värttinä, the famous Finnish Masters of Modern Folk Music, are celebrating 25 years as a band. This compilation entitled '25' includes 22 remastered tracks. Material from all their eleven albums and from the 'Archive Live' DVD plus one song never before released outside Finland.

This re-issue of Tarika’s landmark 1997 album, Son Egal, showcases 13 tracks that are exotic yet accessible. Tarika's trademark harmonies, joyous and funky , shine atop the invigorating sounds of updated Malagasy traditional instruments; beautiful melodies float over modern bass lines propelling buoyant percussive grooves.

The two musicians who make up Arkul have their roots in Sephardic and Bosnian music while at the same time giving it a contemporary feel. The multi-instrumentalist and arranger Atilla Aksoj provides backing on guitars, mandolin, bass and percussion for the sensitive, pure voice of Vladimir Mickovic on traditional and more recent songs whose subjects include love, traveling and looking for a new home.

In 1990, Marie Daulne assembled four other vocalists and created the first incarnation of Zap Mama, an all-female a cappella quintet. Since then the group has morphed into the creative "Afropean" vision of one woman surrounded by talent from nearly every corner of the musical landscape.