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#744 — Top Releases of 2025, Part 2

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Program 744
Ngulmiya
Broadcast

Continuing on from last week, some of what I think were the best releases in traditional, folk, cross-cultural, mixed-genre and instrumental music to come my way in 2025.

Playlist

ARTIST
Title  [Dur.]
Album  (Year)

Päivi HIRVONEN
Maa palaa [3:51]
Maa palaa (The Earth Is Burning) (2025)

DUB ZOO  
Something in the Way [3:14]
Pocketful EP (2025)

Cheikh LÔ
Jikko [3:43]
Maame (2025)

ENTRE ILHAS Project
Boca tarde (Adê) [3:47]
Macaronesia, Vol. 1 (2025)

Pipo ROMERO
Tangos del Atlántico [5:32]
Alborada (2025)

RADIO TARIFA
Me Preguntas (Vocals: Javier Castrillón) [2:37]
Noche, La (The Night) (2025)

LINA_ & Jules MAXWELL
Não Deixei de Ser Quem Sou (The Person I Always Was) [3:37]
Terra Mãe (Mother Earth) (2025)

Lamia YARED and Efrén LÓPEZ
Por Nos De Dulta Tirar [6:25]
From Minho to Euphrates (2025)

Ruth HAZLETON  
Letter From a Friend (Fire Song) [4:46]
Heronbones (2025)

NGULMIYA  
Manila [Catalunya Version] feat. Pau Figueras [3:26]
Catalunya (2025)

NOT DROWNING, WAVING  
Malira [4:24]
Malira (2025)

Virginia NICOLI
Pleiades [excerpt ~3:00]
Taramandal (Constellation) (2025)

Theme: Mark Isham — Nanawatai Pt.2 — The Beast (1988)