Yann Tiersen may be best known for his songs that wound up in the sound track for the award-winning romantic comedy Amélie, his discography only gets more remarkable from there. Spanning French folk, classical, drone and ambient music, his 10 full-length albums fill a 24-year career with hidden classics and obscure…

For the past 40 years, Malian “guitar music” collective Tinariwen have told the oft-overlooked struggles of the Tuareg people through an entrancing stylistic blend. Within a cross section of the Middle Eastern resistance music known as Tichumaren, with more recognizable elements of folk rock and blues, the collective has…