When British tour promoters Anne Hunt and Mary Farquharson hired Nick Gold to run their World Circuit label a year after its 1986 launch, “world music”—the unfortunate appellation for music performed by non-Western artists—tended to arrive in albums organized either by territory, instrument, or style. The Nonesuch Explorer series comes to mind (for example, The Persian Santur: Music of Iran) or Ocara’s Gabon: Musique des Pygmées Bibayak. Read more at Bandcamp…
