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On this episode of #TransworldAirwaves, a cross-cultural musical journey united in voices and rhythms, DJ Madame B presents this #PowerToTheFlower edition, celebrating flora blooming around us and around the world.

Bomba Estéreo is a Colombian band founded in, Bogotá, described as "electro vacilón", "electro tropical" or "psychedelic cumbia".

The Australian industrial group Snog goes western led by David Thrussell, here cleverly covering, Lee Hazlewood's "Let the Little Flowers Grow".

Ethiopique inspired quintet around saxofonist and composer Nathan Daems, bringing you a unique musical insight into the secret realms of long gone legendary sounds of Ethiopia, based in Belgium.

Hanggai is an Inner Mongolian folk music group based in Beijing who specialize in a blend of Mongolian folk music and more modern styles such as punk rock.

Spanish timple player Germán López, his partner Flamengo guitarist Antonio Toledo and Chinese Classical guitarist Chen Xi. The timple, the traditional instrument of the Canary Islands, and the Spanish guitar come together with the classical guitar and traditional Chinese music to create a new universal and current sound.

The history of cultural transfer of sounds and music from China and to Japan in this release.

Chinese folksongs in many different regional styles sung by Gong Linna (Linna Gong), the acclaimed Chinese vocalist, presented with a variety of traditional instruments: dizi, xiao (flutes), yangqin (dulcimer), suona (oboe), sheng (mouth organ) as well as western violins, cellos and zither.

Originally from Tatarstan in central Russia, Zulya performs original music inspired by her Tatar and Australian identity.

Bittersweet folk from Lancaster, PA, led by Karen Peris on vocals, guitar, piano, and organ

Based in London, their name is derived from the Hindi word for travel or pilgrimage and the group embraces this sense of journey in their music. It at times draws inspiration from Carnatic music and plainchant, different world rhythms, along with English folk and Arabic music all thrown in to the mix.

12 Girls Band are an all female Chinese musical group that initially consisted of twelve members before the addition of a thirteenth. Twelve Girls Band use traditional Chinese instruments to play both traditional Chinese and Western music.

They invent the song of Marseilles anew to spread the message of Provence, a harbour turned towards the sea, cosmopolitan, yet proud of it’s history, with a shade of the blues.

She was a Cambodian singer active in the 1960s and 1970s. She was active during the final years of the Sangkum Reastr Niyum period and into the Khmer Republic period, with romantic and psych Cambodian sounds.