Songs of the Naxi of Southwest China, an album documenting the traditional music of the Naxi people of China and sung by the renowned Naxi vocalist He Jinhua, will be released March 11th on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. A wide-ranging collection tethered to He’s entrancing, often multi-layered a cappella performances, the collection marks the first time that folk songs of the Naxi people, of whom there are only about 320,000 in the world, have been shared outside China.