Secret World presents ethnic and acoustic performances from around the globe, singled out from rare or even secret traditions. Examples are ritual music from Laos and Tibet, Javanese Gamelan and sacred vocal music from Bali, Balafon from Burkina Faso and rare musical traditions from India. Secret World includes trance reinterpretations of the ancient Tarantella ritual by Antonio Infantino, east Cuban Son by “Club Musical Oriente Cubano” and the award-winning “Naked Spirit” by the extraordinary Tuvan singer Sainkho. The artist roster also includes the Mancuso Brothers who have become cultural icons of their native Sicily though numerous international concerts, media accolades and their appearance in the film “The Talented Mr. Ripley”. Acclaimed polyphonic treatments of traditional songs have earned the female vocal ensemble “Faraualla” the reputation of being the “Zap’Mamas of the Mediterranean”. Secret World broaches innovative experiments in which two cultures, geographically distant from one another yet musically and spiritually alike, draw inspiration from each other and create something entirely new for the first time, as in the case of “Meeting of Angels”, featuring Gregorian chant and classical music from northern India interpreted by the Gilles Binchois Ensemble and Ustad Nishat Khan. The recording “Brizzi do Brasil” sees contemporary Italian classical composer Aldo Brizzi bringing together leading popular Brazilian and Portuguese singers, like Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Carlinhos Brown, Virginia Rodrigues or Teresa Salgueiro.