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Songlines Music Awards 2011 nominees announced
Posted on March 16th, 2011 in Songlines Blog by Songlines.
Songlines magazine announces the final nominees of the Songlines Music Awards 2011 and releases a compilation album on March 21, featuring all 16 nominated artists.
With the Songlines Music Awards now in their third year, Songlines is delighted to announce the final nominees in the 2011 Songlines Music Awards. The Awards, voted by Songlines readers and the general public, aim to recognise and celebrate the wealth of outstanding musical talent from across the world that has been reviewed in Songlines magazine.
There are four categories: Best Artist, Best Group, Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Newcomer. The final nominees are the top four in each category from the public vote, profiles on all final nominees will be published in the April/May issue of Songlines (#75) on sale from March 18.
The winners of each category will be announced in the June issue (#76), on sale from April 29, 2011.
The 16 final nominees are:
BEST ARTIST
Ana Moura (for the album Leva me Aos Fados on World Village)
Cheikh Lô (for the album Jamm on World Circuit)
Femi Kuti (for the album Africa for Africa on Wrasse)
Youssou N’Dour (for the album Dakar-Kingston on Universal)
BEST GROUP
Bellowhead (for the album Hedonism on Navigator)
Hanggai (for the album He Who Travels Far on World Connection)
Lepistö & Lehti (for the album Helsinki on Aito Records)
Terrakota (for the album World Massala on Ojo Musica)
CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATION
AfroCubism (for the album AfroCubism on World Circuit)
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal (for the album Chamber Music on No Format)
Kronos Quartet with Alim & Fargana Qasimov and Homayun Sakhi (for the album Rainbow – Music of Central Asia Vol 8 on Smithsonian Folkways)
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Matt Malley (for the album Sleepless Nights on World Village)
NEWCOMER
The Creole Choir of Cuba (for the album Tande-la on Real World)
Raghu Dixit (for the album Raghu Dixit on Vishal & Shekhar Music)
Syriana (for the album Road to Damascus on Real World)
Tamikrest (for the album Adagh on Glitterhouse Records)
A compilation album featuring all 16 final nominees will be released (on CD & download) on March 21 (SPLCD004). The Songlines Music Awards 2011 iPhone app, featuring profiles and music of all the nominees, is also available to download for free from the iTunes store.
For more information, click here
October 2010 issue of Songlines (#71) is on sale in the UK from September 3
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 in Songlines Blog by Songlines.
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.
