The January/February 2010 issue of Songlines is on sale in the UK from December 11 and includes our regular Top of the World CD with ten tracks from the finest new releases from around the planet. There’s also a selection of five tracks selected by Channel 4 newscaster Jon Snow. The issue also includes a bonus 2nd CD of World Music from Catalonia.

The Top of the World CD includes tracks from Senegalese star Baaba Maal; Africa’s legendary big band Orchestra Baobab; Angola’s greatest son, Bonga; the experimental collaborators David Byrne & Brian Eno; DJ Gilles Peterson presents Havana Cultura; Qawwali singer Faiz Ali Faiz teams up with French guitarist Titi Robin and the South African rising star Thandiswa Mazwai.

The main editorial features include:

• Osibisa – Bandleader Teddy Osei leads us down memory lane and introduces the Afro-pop pioneers’ ‘fourth generation

• Best of 2009 – Simon Broughton presents his selection of the ten finest world music releases this year.

• Songlines Music Awards 2010 – voting is now open plus your chance to win a B&W Zeppelin Mini

• Rough Guide to World Music – We talk to the team behind the resource, as its final print edition is released.

• Salsa in Colombia – Social reform and sequins: why salsa in the

city of Cali is big business.

• Songlines Guide to Sephardic Music – Untangling the complex lines of history and

culture which inform this unique tradition.

• Sounding Out Belém, Brazil – all the best places to see and hear music in the Brazilian city.

• Beginner’s Guide to Totó La Momposina.

• Postcard from Hanoi, Vietnam.

• Jerez Flamenco Festival.

• Backpage from Copenhagen, Denmark.

• My World – Channel 4 newscaster Jon Snow.

• Grooves – Dogan Mehmet, Omar Puente and Thomas Lauderdale share their favourites.

• News, including Dispatches USA.

• Reviews of the latest CD, DVD and World Cinema releases.

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