All the music played throughout The World for August 27, 2013 are from the Putumayo record label: Ali Akbar Khan, Strunz and Farah, Strunz and Farah, Jose Luis Martinez Vesga, Ernest Ranglin and Jose Gonzales y Banda Criolla.
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