We have but a canoe and two paddles.. It’s just you and me, dear amigo.  Will we beat the odds and reach a beautiful Polynesian island of wonder?  Will the inhabitants be musically inclined?  Will they befriend us or bury us at sea?  Listen in and soak up soundscapes that our ears have yet to wander, the sun is on the rise as we point the bow towards Tonga..

This next one is rrreeal soothing… but suddenly it gets all funked up at the 5:03 mark.. for a full 4 seconds!

… 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..