The Wrapped Eye: 2025 Outernational Favorites (crossing borders)

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
- Anais Nin

Music manifesting a syncretic approach to music making. This isn't a mix of traditional world music, nor polished world pop -- hence the admittedly elusive (but real) term "outernational." I use it to describe artists, often working in collaboration, drawing from their own culture(s) to create distinctive music across genres, from -- from pop, rock, hip hop, jazz, soundtracks, indie music, and more.

This is fourth in a series of 10 mixes of 2025 favorites. The selections reflect a personal, exploratory approach to discovery and curation, with artists and tracks that tend to fall outside typical “best of” lists.

The mix is timestamped and the tracklist is in the first comment.