We say: A musical tour of the world that begins and ends in New York City.

This wide-ranging compilation is an attempt to give a flavor of globalFEST, which takes place in New York City each January. All of the tracks, which feature artists who have performed at the festival, are previously unreleased, making this of interest to collectors and completists as well as those who just want of a taste of the global musical buffet on offer.

Our ears are taken on a global journey via a number of exotic stopping-off points. First we travel to Morocco's Atlas Mountains to hear the dark, trance-like gnawa of Hassan Hakmoun with "Balilli," then it's off to India with Bollywood playback singer, Kailash Kher, ("Rang Rang Ma") before Lebanon (by way of Paris) with Yasmine Hamdan ("IRSS"). Next, it's a return to Africa — Mauritania with Noura Mint Seymali ("El Madi") and Burkina Faso with Alif Naaba ("San Kuily") — before we get to hear Shamanic folk-rock fusion from Namgar ("Khadadaa"), a female singer who hails from the Buryat Republic in Siberia close to the Mongolian border.

It is not always necessary to travel so far and wide as some of the world music talent on display here is US-based. The Colombian collective of M.A.K.U. Soundsystem ("Agua") have made their home in New York City, as have Brooklyn Qawwali Party ("Sochan Dongian"), who play a jazzy take on Nasrut Fateh Ali Khan's qawwali without a single Pakistani in sight. Other US-based performers include the Martha Redbone Roots Project, who sing "My Warfare Will Soon Be Over," the Chicago marching band, Mucca Pazza, with "Dirty Chompers," and New Orlean's Stooges Brass Band who perform "Muses." For good measure, there's also a live track, "Riquesa," by long-standing French fusionists Lo'Jo, which is always a good idea as you can't go far wrong with festival stalwarts like these. Overall, globalFEST Selector provides a good account of the sheer variety that this festival has to offer, although the constant switching between genres can be a bit wearing after a while.