World Music Network

Music Rough Guides has been releasing the Rough Guide music series in association with the Rough Guides travel book publishers since 1994, when the first world music book and album in that series were released.[9]

Since then Music Rough Guides have covered destinations as diverse as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Japan, and Hungary. They have also covered musical styles such as merengue music, klezmer, salsa and Bollywood.[1]

Since 1989 Riverboat Records have produced artists from around the world. Releases in recent years include those by the artists; Debashish Bhattacharya,[10] Mory Kante, Nuru Kane, Ramzi Aburedwan,[11] SambaSunda, Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis and 'Gaelic Americana' artist Kyle Carey.

A separate artist label to Riverboat Records, Introducing was launched by World Music Network in 2004, out of a desire to promote exposure for previously undiscovered musical talent from around the world. Introducing showcases artists previously unreleased or unavailable outside their own country.[12]

The Introducing label has had a number of releases including features for Ethiopian reggae-fusion project Invisible System, and Saharan blues band Etran Finatawa.[13]

Other projects include albums from Miami Latin hip-hop collective Spam Allstars, South African maskanda player Shiyani Ngcobo,[14] Chinese folk band Hanggai and a release by the desert blues master Mamane Barka.[15]

World Music Network has released a number of fundraising albums released in association with Amnesty International and Oxfam.

The Think Global series aims to promote music that reduces poverty, defends human rights and encourages protecting the environment. Releases include Think Global: Women Of Africa[16] and Think Global: Tango.[17]