This podcast includes highlights from the June 2010 issue of Songlines (#68) opening with an excerpt from Jim Moray’s new album In Modern History (available free, exclusively with this issue of Songlines). Editor in chief, Simon Broughton, plays an extract from Mulatu Astatke’s latest album Mulatu Steps Ahead on Strut.

Features include: Nigel Williamson with a tribute to the late Charlie Gillett, Nasim Masoud with the winners of the 2010 Songlines Music Awards and Simon Broughton on Sudanese/Egyptian instrument and band Rango. Nathaniel Handy brings you the latest news with the Official UK World Music Album Chart, as well as music from Vieux Farka Touré and new project UNITE. The podcast ends with an extract from Victor Démé’s new album Deli on Naive.

The next Songlines podcast, featuring highlights from the July issue (#69), will be available from June 11 2010.

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