The term World Music is generally used to describe music that combines musical styles from multiple different cultures, often including "western" musicians with other musicians from Africa, East Asia, India, etc. I often find it fascinating, and there are several musicians I follow who create some really interesting stuff.
Omar Sosa is a Cuban jazz pianist, who has made probably 30 albums over the past 30 years or so. Not really well known but hugely creative. He has collaborated with musicians from all over the world on a very diverse set of recordings. On that I've been listening to lately is called Transparent Water. Some of the most relaxing sounds I've ever heard, but still hugely engrossing.
The two primary musicians are Sosa on piano and Seckou Keita, a Senegalese Kora player. But there are others as well. From an NPR review of the album:
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/16/51524735 ... rent-water
If you don't know what a kora is, here's a clip of Sosa and Keita (without most of the rest of the group except for percussionist Gustavo Ovalles) playing one of the songs from the album:The music instantaneously transports listeners from the very first notes. But in addition to journeys within, there are real world travels across the globe on this album. The cast includes: Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles; Silk Road member and Chinese sheng master Wu Tong; and Mieko Miyazaki on the Japanese koto. What could have been a multi-culti mess is instead a powerfully elegant statement of joy over shared musical discovery.
