This Appearing World is a live album by pianist Marilyn Crispell, Māori traditional instrumentalist Richard Nunns, and reed player Jeff Henderson.

[3] Crispell first visited New Zealand in 2000 and returned in 2008 in order to perform with Nunns and Henderson, the founder of the band Urban Taniwha.

Given the refined arthouse nature of its contents, its worldliness and other-worldiness, it is best let sit outside genre and expectation.

"[6] In a review for Songlines, Seth Jordan remarked: "While it can't really be categorised as world music per se, any more than it can be called jazz or even contemporary classical, all three of those complementary genres are present in their most loosely defined sense.

An album that is much more about sounds themselves, rather than any recognised melody or set structure, these at times challenging improvisations gestate, grow, meander, find small crevices to nest in, and then mutate into new haiku-like statements.