BROADCAST TIMES Wed 9:00 PM New Orleans (UTC−5) Thu 9:00 AM New Orleans (UTC−5) Thu 3:00 PM New Orleans (UTC−5) Across fifteen years of recordings, producer Ian Brennan has sought out voices rarely heard beyond the communities where they were recorded. Captured in prisons, refugee camps, remote villages, places of worship, and communities living on the margins, these songs speak with startling honesty about love, loss, displacement, resilience, faith, memory, and survival. This mixtape traces Brennan's extraordinary body of work from 2011–2025, bringing together singers from every corner of the world whose stories are as unforgettable as their music. These are not polished studio performances but deeply human testimonies—fragile, defiant, and profoundly moving. #songsfromtheedgeoftheworld #ianbrennanplaylist #glitterbeatrecords #sixdegreesrecords #sublimefrequencies #ponderosarecords #freedirtrecords #outsidermusic #ethnomusicology #fieldrecordings #voicesfromthemargins #ethnographicrecordings TRACKLIST The oldest voice in the world (Azerbaijan) “Memories of My Mother” (Six Degrees Records) Rohingya Refugees “The Soldiers Burned Our Mosque (They Stole Our Souls)” (Rohingya Refugees / Bandcamp release – Ian Brennan project) Bhutan Balladeers “The Day You Were Born” (Glitterbeat Records) Taa! (Botswana) “I Am Lost (The Spirits Will Guide Me Home)” (Glitterbeat Records) Famo Mountain “I Miss My Wife (She Left to Work in South Africa)” (Glitterbeat Records) Oman Bagpipe Singers “Bring the Food & Water (The Voyagers Have Returned)” (Glitterbeat Records) Sainko Namtchylak “Reverse Healing” (Ponderosa Music & Records) N’golá (São Tomé) “I Can Overcome Any Enemy” (PM Press / Free Dirt – co-release) Himba Hymn “Lion Attack, Cattle Massacre” (Sublime Frequencies) Parchman Prison Prayer “Parchman Prison Blues” (Glitterbeat Records) The Good Ones (Rwanda) “Agnes Dreams of Being an Artist” (Glitterbeat Records) West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “He Has to be #1” (Sublime Frequencies) Ustad Saami “Night Falls (Desert Melody)” (Glitterbeat Records) Zomba Prison Project “I Will Never Stop Grieving for You, My Wife” (Six Degrees Records) Tanzania Albinism Collective “Happiness” (Six Degrees Records) Comorian “Mama (Once We Had a Queen)” (Glitterbeat Records) Malawi Mouse Boys “Hunger” (Malawi Mouse Boys / Bandcamp project album) Khmer Rouge Survivors “My Life as a Victim of War” (Glitterbeat Records or related Ian Brennan project release) Yanna Momina “My Family Won’t Let Me Marry the Man I Love (I Must Wed My Uncle)” (Glitterbeat Records or related release) fra fra “Helpless (Death Has Taken Everyone)” (Glitterbeat Records) War Women of Kosovo “My Teenage Daughter Was Raped in Front of Me” (War Women of Kosovo / Bandcamp release) Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) “Villages Swallowed By the Floods” (Glitterbeat Records or related release) Chicago Gunfire Survivors “I’m Tired of It (Justice Was Not Served)” (Chicago Gunfire Survivors / Bandcamp project release) Witch Camp (Ghana) “Left to Live Like an Animal” (Six Degrees Records)