OPEN POST: Tiny Desk Global and Eclectic

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Why not some Tiny Desks for Wednesday? They come from Ukrainian Experimental Folk, Japanese All-Girl Punk, Soulful Spanish Guitars, Ecuadorean Swiss, and Saharan Africa. I threw in some Caroline Polachek, heavily influenced by the 90s vocal styles.











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