Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Quickfire: Clare Sands
Boosting Dylan and talking world medal martial arts with the Irish singer and fiddle-player channelling the music of her ancestors
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Monday, December 5, 2022
Chris Watson interview: “Somewhere in Buckingham Palace is the entire works of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry”
One of the world’s foremost sound recordists talks about capturing the genius loci and his enduring love of reggae
Friday, December 2, 2022
Meeting Souad Massi: “The world is fragile, and I’m afraid for the future of our children”
Robin Denselow talks to the French-Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi, whose latest album is a testament to survival amid the depths of global despondency and personal hardship
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Elaha Soroor interview: “Modesty is part of the identity of Afghan women and if you don’t have that identity you don’t exist”
Afghan singer Elaha Soroor talks to Simon Broughton about her role in a play that mirrors her own flight as a refugee and the fate of her family back home since the Taliban’s return to power
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Banjo Albums | The Essential 10
Nigel Williamson selects 10 vital albums brimming with bluegrass, clawhammer and old-time reinventions
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Jake Blount interview: “I wanted to find a way to represent our traditions while also looking forward”
American banjo and fiddle player Jake Blount explains to Alexandra Petropoulos how he’s using the sounds and lessons of history and the global climate crisis to envision a new future for Black spiritual music
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Al-Qasar interview: “We live in a world of very complex identities, with multinational families and lots of migration”
French-American musician and producer Thomas Attar Bellier talks about his sizzling new psych-rock unit who are fusing North African trance and Middle Eastern melodies with elements of alternative rock
Monday, November 21, 2022
Quickfire: Ibrahim Maalouf
Waxing lyrical with the genre-bending French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer whose latest video features the socio-political star flow of actress and activist Sharon Stone
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Jackie Oates interview: “There are so many confessions within traditional songs… it makes you wonder why they have survived in this medium”
Folk singer and fiddle player Jackie Oates explores the confessional nature of folk song on her new album, Gracious Wings
Monday, November 14, 2022
Zülfü Livaneli: “Art reaches the masses flowing like an underground river”
One of Turkey’s most influential cultural figures speaks about his fight for peace through music
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Spotlight: Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
Daniel Spicer reports on a new collaboration between the son of a Malian guitar legend and the hypnotic trio from Houston, a lilting fusion of desert blues, psychedelia and dub
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
My Instrument: Hyelim Kim and her daegeum
The doyenne of the Korean bamboo flute talks about the power of distortion and diverse dictionaries of tonal colours
Monday, November 7, 2022
Quickfire: Purbayan Chatterjee
Cross-pollinator of Indian classical and contemporary world music tells us about the albums and artists which have influenced his work
Friday, October 28, 2022
Swiss Music Playlist: From Alps to Festival Fields (Sponsored Content)
Three world music festival directors dive deep into sounds from Switzerland’s global and folk artists and tell Songlines who, given the chance, they would programme and why
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Meeting Abel Selaocoe: “I find the threads that bind African music and classical music together”
Abel Selaocoe has made a name for himself as an innovator who straddles the worlds of Western classical and South African heritage. Jo Frost catches up with the cellist to talk about his debut solo album
