West African acoustic-axe fans take note – a new Malian griot guitarist is here to ratchet up the note ratios with some seriously fleet fretboard action, picking up fans such as Bill Frisell along the way
Outstanding new releases from Jupiter & Okwess, Natalia Lafourcade, John Francis Flynn, Derya Yıldırım and many more. Tracks from all of these albums are included on the free cover-CD with the August 2021 issue of Songlines
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Angélique Kidjo on the music that motivates her; interviews with Polish string band VOLOSI, Colombian duo Bomba Estéreo and Haiti's Lakou Mizik; a Beginner's Guide to Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita, plus more inside
Despite the disappointing cancellation of this year's event, WOMAD reaches out to world music fans via the airwaves
The Irish folk artist talks to Jane Coyle about how living on the Armagh-Monaghan border has shaped both her life and her songwriting
Get the expert track on the instruments that set the globe grooving and the world listening with Songlines’ free digital magazine boasting selections of Tools of the Trade articles on the tama, cimbalom, djembé, gamelan, saz and duduk
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Angélique Kidjo – My World interview with the iconic West African chanteuse
Bomba Estéreo – Colombian electro-tropical dream-weavers
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Anatolia’s rising psych-soul sensations
VOLOSI – Bridging the realms of classical and Polish folk
Namgar – Buryat-Mongolian singer's bloodline band
Lakou Mizik – Voodoo, rara, roots and rhythms
Seckou Keita – Beginner's Guide to the Senegalese kora master
+ Top of the World CD, with five bonus tracks
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