… sits the idyllic land of Lithuania.  Although it comprises only 3 million-odd humans, that still gives them roughly 12 million limbs to strum and pluck and stomp with… plenty of ligaments for rocking!  Iron Curtain or Indy-pendant, that’s just what they do.  Punk, Ska, Kankles, Doom, Cosmic-Electro, hear it all on this week’s sound-melange… and in one of the most ancient, unaltered languages still thriving on planet Earthling.

Punk is more than a lifestyle, it’s a life of style!

..and check out this bizarro anti-rap video, where the MC plays the self-deprecating loony:

Come along for an island ride: Ceylonese Calypso, the King of Baila, Demonic Chatter, Raga-Fusion, Folktronic Nymphstep… Nothin’ but the utmost class in Sri Lanka, and you can hear it all for only 3 easy payments of 89.98!

That’s an incredible offer, only available to our listeners for a limited time!

And if you act now, we’ll even throw in some unruly Parisien hiphop for no extra charge…

A small yet musically dynamite African nation will be heard on this week’s program..  formerly Dahomey, currently Bénin, and perpetually mistaken as a part of Nigeria, this sliver of a nation in West Africa blends beautiful native rhythms with Latin percussion, French-language pomp, rock’n’roll swagger, and the soul of the ancient Vodoun spiritual heritage.

This is pretty much the greatest synthesis of far-flung styles that humans have yet created:

All aboard, we’re trippin’ to Honduras this week.  Expect a fruity mix of Carribean, African, and Latin flavours — blended to the point of no barriers.  The Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people (spread across the Carribean Coast of Belize, Guatamala, Honduras and Nicaragua) carry the sonic torch of punta rock… a hybrid dance groove that lives and breathes musical mastery:

And this should at least make you giggle:

Is that a synth-flute he’s playing?  Only in Tegucigalpa..

No time for half steppin’– we’ve got a fully far-out show for you this week, guaranteed to bring unfamiliar frequencies through your ear canal and right into your temporal lobe.

To kick off the show at high noon, we will be joined by the masterful, mysterious one-man-tornado who goes by the name Zen Junkie.  He will perform several acoustic delights and present music from his debut LP, The Good Monster.  This is music to shock the senses into absolute attunement.

We shall then dip into uncharted waters, as we begin our monumental trip through the Stans (well we already visited Pakistan, but that’s a different sound altogether).  Just east of the Caspian Sea lies Türkmenistan, second only to North Korea in its self-imposed isolation from the world.  Only 2% of the population have internet access.  Beards are illegal.  The months are named after the President’s family.  MCs are imprisoned for swearing in their music.

But, as we’ve come to expect from all true humans, the music is top-notch: