A Global Journey CD
A Global Journey is a world music compilation CD that surveys the music of the world by region across a set of volumes, and it is the kind of survey disc the small label scene on this site carries for the listener who wants to hear the range of the genre on a shelf. The compilation is a multi volume set, with each volume covering a region of the world, and each disc holds 12 to 16 tracks on a 74 or 80 minute CD. The set is the sampler of the world music, and it is the disc a new listener uses to map the genre before buying a single artist's album. The small label scene releases the world music the survey carries, and the compilation is the entry point to the shelf. This page identifies the compilation, its volumes, and where to find the release.
This is the guide to the survey: it describes the A Global Journey compilation, the way the volumes are built by region, the tracks each disc carries, and where a listener finds the release on the small label shelf.
What the compilation is
What the compilation is is a world music survey set that gathers the music of the world by region, and it is the disc the small label scene carries as the entry point to the genre. The set is a multi volume survey, and each volume covers a region, so the listener who works through the set hears the world music from one corner of the globe to the next. The compilation is a 74 or 80 minute CD, and it holds 12 to 16 tracks of the music from the region the volume covers. The survey is the sampler of the world music, and it is the disc the listener buys first to map the genre, because it puts the range of the music on a shelf in a set that is easy to work through. The compilation is the survey, and the scene releases and distributes it through the same channel as the rest of the world music catalogue.
How the volumes are built
How the volumes are built is by region, and each volume covers a corner of the world with a set of tracks from the music of that place. The volumes follow the regions of the world music, the Africa and the Middle East, the Asia and the Pacific, the Europe and the Americas, and the set is built so the listener hears each region in turn. Each volume holds 12 to 16 tracks, and the tracks are chosen to show the range of the region, from the acoustic folk to the urban fusion, so the listener hears both the traditional and the modern music of the place. The volumes are the structure of the survey, and they are the way the set carries the world music from one region to the next. The small label scene carries the volumes, and the regions are the map the set is built on.
The tracks and the artists on the discs
The tracks and the artists on the discs are the music the survey gathers, and they are the artists the listener meets on the shelf. The compilation carries the artists of the world music, the acoustic folk and the classical and the urban fusion of each region, and it is the disc that puts the artist in front of the listener who has not heard the tradition. The survey is the sampler, and the tracks on it are the entry point to the artist's own album, because the listener who finds an artist on the survey then buys the artist's full record from the small label that signed them. The 12 to 16 tracks on each volume are the sample, and the artist's own album is the full record the survey points to. The small label scene releases the artist's album, and the survey is the disc that introduces the artist to the listener.
Where to find the release
Where to find the release is on the world music shelf of the small label scene, and it is the disc the scene carries as the sampler of the genre. The survey is available on the CD, and it is the format the scene presses and distributes for the world music, and the 74 or 80 minute disc is the one that holds the 12 to 16 tracks of each volume. The listener finds the set on the shelf, and they work through the volumes by region to map the genre, and they follow the artist they like to the artist's own album from the small label. The 3 steps are the survey, the artist, and the album, and they are the path the listener takes from the sampler to the collection. The survey is the entry point to the world music, and the scene releases and distributes the music it carries, which is the role this page describes.