Ian Brennan is Grammy-winning producer who has produced three Grammy-nominated albums and published seven books while also teaching violence prevention around the world since 1993 for organizations such as the Smithsonian and the National Accademia of Science (Rome). Brennan released his first album in 1987 and in the past decade has produced over forty records by international artists from five continents, which have resulted in the first widely released original music albums from nations such as Rwanda, Malawi, Kosovo, South Sudan, Romania, Comoros, and Vietnam. He has worked with artists as diverse as Fugazi, country legend Merle Haggard, Sleater-Kinney, and Green Day. His work has appeared in the New York Times, PBS television, and in an Emmy-winning segment of 60 Minutes. Marilena Umuhoza Delli is an Italian Rwandan photographer, author, and filmmaker whose photographic work has been published around the world by VICE, Libération, Corriere della Sera, Le Monde, Rolling Stone, and Smithsonian, among others, and has photographed the covers of more than three dozen international music albums. She has written two Italian-language books about racism and growing up with an immigrant mother in Italy's most redneck region. Experimental and classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie has released almost fifty album and collaborated with the likes of Mark Knofler, Björk, Fred Frith, Bela Fleck, Bobby McFerrin, and filmmaker Danny Boyle. Evelyn became deaf at age twelve and is the only deaf artist known to have ever won a Grammy, which she has done twice as well as having been nominated three other times since 1988. Glennie is the author of two books, Listen World! and Good Vibrations: My Autobiography. Her stated mission is to try to help ""teach the world to listen.""
""Music is one of the best doors into a culture and Ian Brennan has opened them in more far-off corners than anyone. He writes of the people he meets and their music with vivid directness and great generosity of spirit."" --Joe Boyd, Grammy-nominated producer (Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, Pink Floyd) and author of White Bicycles ""An activist and ambassador for the overlooked and underappreciated musicians of the world. Brennan is an important counterculture figure of our time. His writing, like his productions, deserves a spotlight."" --Raymond Antrobus, award-winning poet ""Looking for music in the far corners of the world, Brennan has made recordings and albums that no one else has even thought to capture, let alone made the effort needed to do so. He has brought voices, stories, and feelings to the world's listeners that likely would never have been known without his selfless efforts."" --Larry Crane, founder, publisher, and editor of Tape Op, producer for Elliott Smith