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Much loved DJ, Songlines contributor and world music explorer Andy Kershaw returns to BBC Radio 3 in the near future and with him come exciting new plans.

He is set to present Music Planet – a programme being created in conjunction with BBC One’s Human Planet. Alongside co-presenter Lucy Durán, he will visit more remote outposts of world music in the footsteps of his legendary North Korean and Iraqi sojourns.

Music Planet is being touted by the station as the “most significant and ambitious world music project ever” and will include throat singing in Greenland, shamanic music from Mongolia and the sounds of the remote Bat People of Papa New Guinea.

Of a trip to Thailand, Kershaw had this to say: “I cheerily risked incineration at a rocket festival in Thailand to take our Radio 3 audience into the fiery thick of the action.” Watch this space.

www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

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The August/September 2009 issue of Songlines – on sale July 24 – features a free covermount CD packed full of the best new sounds from around the world, plus 5 tracks selected by the one and only Andy Kershaw, including exclusive material.

The covermount CD includes tracks from the king of rai, Khaled; Touareg blues-rockers Tinariwen; award-winning English folk artist Chris Wood; Cape Verdean singer Sara Tavares; and Indian santoor maestro Rahul Sharma.

Pick up your copy here on the website, at selected WHSmith’s and at all good record retailers. Feast your ears on these all-new tracks:

* Khaled ‘Raikoum’ on Wrasse Records

* Darriau, Lumanovski & Novara ‘Liquid Clarinet’ on Felmay

* Sara Tavares ‘Ponto de Luz’ on World Connection

* Lorna ‘Lisboa’ on Trikont

* Spiro ‘Shaft’ on Real World Records

* Tinariwen ‘Lulla’ on Independiente

* Mohamed Ilyas with Nyota Zameremeta Orchestra of Zanzibar ‘Pendo’ on Chiku-Taku

* Chris Wood ‘Albion’ on RUF Records

* Jimmy Bosch ‘Mujeres Mandan’ on JRGR Records

* Rahul Sharma and Aditya Kalyanpur ‘Jhalla’ on Sense World Music

Plus Andy Kershaw’s playlist:

* Ali Farka Touré ‘Kadi Kadi’ (live) Recorded live in October 1987; broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2001

* Grynner ‘Get Out de Way’ on Ice Records

* Tinariwen ‘Amous Idjraout Assouf d’Alwa’ Previously unreleased track – world exclusive

* Ernie Payne ‘Curse of Hamm’ on Black & Tan Records

* Staff Benda Bilili ‘Marguerite’ on Crammed Discs

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Andy Kershaw has put together a special playlist for the CD on the next issue of Songlines (#62). Not content with picking tracks from currently available CDs, he wanted to include some unavailable treasures. So we have Ali Farka Touré, the great Malian guitarist and singer, recorded in Kershaw’s kitchen on his first visit to London in 1987. We have an unreleased track by Touareg rockers Tinariwen and a hard to find calypso by Grynner from Barbados.

In addition, there’s a track from the late Ernie Payne, who supported Robert Plant at concerts organised by Kershaw on the Isle of Man in 2006, and music from the extraordinary Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili, still to make their UK debut. The selection clearly shows Kershaw’s ear for distinctive music.

Andy Kershaw says:

“I’d like to thank Songlines readers and writers for their support and messages of goodwill over the last couple of years. I’ve now rediscovered my enthusiasm, energy and curiosity for everything, particularly music. And I’ve never been in such unbeatable physical and emotional shape – I’m raring to get back to doing radio. It’s been a pleasure to put together for Songlines this little selection of rarities. I would like to thank all the artists and labels for kindly making these tracks available.”

Kershaw has been one of the pioneers and principal promoters of world music in Britain over 24 years, bringing an enthusiastic audience to his shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 3. He’s currently writing No Off Switch (Serpent’s Tail), an autobiography about his life in music and adventures as a foreign correspondent around the world.

Kershaw’s playlist in detail:

1.    Ali Farka Touré: ‘Kadi Kadi’. A live recording in Kershaw’s kitchen in 1987. “It was like a social occasion and his UK media launch,” recounts Kershaw. “Ali sat on his amp and played his black electric guitar in the kitchen of my one-bedroom flat and I ran a cassette on my trusty Sony Walkman Professional. It’s a wonderful record of his first visit to the UK.” Courtesy of Dean Craven at Radio 3, who rediscovered the archived recording.

2.    Grynner: ‘Get Out de Way’. This won Grynner the Calypso Monarch title in the Barbados Crop Over festival in 1990. “I adore the line: ‘The ugly man is the only man whose music we want to hear’,” says Kershaw. “Let’s say Grynner, like me, is not classically handsome, so it’s like a mission statement. For both of us.”  Courtesy of Eddy Grant’s Ice Records.

3.    Tinariwen: ‘Amous Idjraout Assouf d’Alwa’. An unreleased song by the wonderful Touareg rockers Tinariwen. “There’s a sense of righteousness and menace about them like The Clash,” says Kershaw. This song of nostalgia and sadness was recorded in the sessions for Aman Iman – made available thanks to Independiente and Andy Morgan.

4.    Ernie Payne: ‘Curse of Hamm’. Kershaw was knocked out when he first heard the CD Coercion Street by American singer Ernie Payne and sent it to Robert Plant. He liked it so much he asked Payne to support him in concert on the Isle of Man and in the US. Sadly Payne died in 2007. Courtesy of Jan Mittendorp and Black & Tan Records.

5.    Staff Benda Bilili: ‘Marguerite’. From Congo, Staff Benda Bilili are a group of musicians disabled by polio who get about in customised wheelchairs and live in the grounds of Kinshasa Zoo. Their music is warm-hearted and glorious. They make their UK debut at London’s Barbican on November 10. Courtesy of Crammed Discs.

There is also an excerpt from another of Kershaw’s selections, John Martyn’s ‘Johnny Too Bad’, on next issue’s Songlines podcast, available through iTunes from July 23. Courtesy of Island Records.

The August/September issue of Songlines (#62) will be on sale in the UK from July 24. Excerpts from each track can be heard on the Songlines interactive sampler at http://www.songlines.co.uk/interactive/062

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