This podcast includes highlights from the November/December issue of Songlines (#40), starting with a track from Seu Jorge's album ‘Cru’ on the Beleza label. We also have an excerpt from a previously unreleased track from Buena Vista Social Club which appears on the latest World Circuit 20th anniversary compilation album; Simon Broughton's interview with the group El Tanbura from Port Said features recordings from their gig at the 50 year celebration of the liberation of the Suez Canal; Nigel Williamson talks about our Beginner's Guide artist Trilok Gurtu and plays tracks from two of his recommended albums - ‘African Fantasy’ and ‘Broken Rhythms’; Rose Skelton, our contributor in West Africa, reports on the Guinean kora quartet Ba Cissoko, plus you get to hear a track from their latest album ‘Electric Griot Land’ on the Totolo label. And finally our throat singing expert Michael Ormiston gives us an exclusive demonstration on the art of throat singing and plays a track from the album ‘Naked Spirit, on Amiata, by one of the artists coming to London's Atlantic Waves festival, Sainkho Namchylak.

 

The next Songlines podcast featuring highlights from the January/February issue (#41) will be available from December 8.