Gabriel da Rosa’s debut album, É o que a casa oferece, arrives at an auspicious time as Brazilian music is becoming more ubiquitous, cresting a wave of popularity that has been building over the better part of a century.

Furling makes the case for Baird, once again, as one of the finest singers and songwriters of her generation.

The self-titled debut from the ensemble makes clear an intention to work themselves into a small, yet prolific scene that fully embraces the groundbreaking era of the British Isles electrified folk rapture at the close of the 1960s.

1977 meeting of the minds. Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius.

The David Grisman quintet’s 1977 eponymous debut. Self-styled “dawg music,” this is where it all began. Jazz, bluegrass, newgrass and beyond.

Essential YLT. Go see them on this current tour. You’ll thank us later.

Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Almqvist’s 1979 debut, Nyanser, is a Nordic masterpiece of folk, fusion, and world music. A guitarist first and foremost, he plays the record largely himself, his patient and winding passages often leading the sojourn across the album’s majestic thirty-eight minutes.

In line with the late records of Jovem Guarda, such as Erasmo Carlos’ 1970-1972 trilogy of later-revered proto-indie, as well as with Os Mutantes’ flavorful Brazilian psychedelia, Rubinho & Mauro Assumpção’s only ever release wanders through daring and often humorous experimentations.