The October 2010 issue of Songlines is on sale in the UK from September 3 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 Indian composer AR Rahman.

The Top of the World CD includes tracks from Songlines Music Award-winning Portuguese band Deolinda; Irish instrumentalists Lúnasa; Parisian North African ten-piece Orchestre National de Barbès; LA R’n’B and rock from Los Lobos; bassy Maori beats specialists Wai and Iranian classical vocalist Ali Reza Ghorbani, among others.

The main editorial features include:

• AfroCubism – The story about how this Mali-Cuba concept album accidentally led to the release of the Buena Vista Social Club.

• Kurdish Music – An alarming report about the continuing marginalisation of Kurdish music and musicians in Turkey.

• Syriana – Luscious Middle Eastern soundscapes get a thoroughly modern reworking on the latest East-meets-West project.

• Tools of the Trade: The Afghan Rubab – Unveiling the history behind Afghanistan’s national instrument.

• Alim Qasimov – The singer and reluctant musical ambassador of Azerbaijan talks about the poetry of his music, prior to his UK visit.

• Sounding Out Bristol – all the best places to see and hear music in the gateway to England’s West Country.

• Beginner’s Guide to Ethiopian legend Mahmoud Ahmed.

• Postcard from Carriacou, Grenada.

• Folklandia Festival, the Baltic sea.

• Backpage from Beirut, Lebanon.

• My World – Indian composer AR Rahman.

• Grooves – Penguin Café Orchestra’s Arthur Jeffes, Scottish folk singer Karine Polwart and Polish world music writer and festival programmer Marek Garztecki.

• News, including Dispatches USA from California.

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

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Tags: a.r. rahman, ar rahman, deolinda, kurdish music, lunasa, syriana