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James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg Rap Up Third Duo Album
Fingerpickin’ guitar-slingers announce new collaboration, featuring a unique take on Neneh Cherry’s ‘Buffalo Stance’
Fingerpickin’ guitar-slingers announce new collaboration, featuring a unique take on Neneh Cherry’s ‘Buffalo Stance’
An extended version of our Q&A with Italian-Iranian 5-piece Hysterrae about their hypnotic new album
Los Tigres del Norte emerged in the 1960s with a new take on Mexican storytelling. Their tales of migration and hardship have become increasingly relevant with every passing year
With Toumani and Ballaké’s epochal New Ancient Strings to be reissued for its 25th anniversary, we speak to Lucy Durán, the album’s producer, about the unique recording and her documentary tracing the history of the kora
Feminist supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique mark a decade of existence this year, with a new release to celebrate. Jane Cornwell talks politics, power and positivity with the current line-up. “Women are suffocating. We want them to breathe,” they tell her.
Listen to the ebullient debut single from this new intercontinental duo
Eliza contemplates what is gained, lost and remains the same as the UK looks to ratify its culture through UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
Baloji – the Congolese-Belgian musician and auteur is back with a film and four-album soundtrack
Asmâa Hamzaoui – Morocco’s female Gnawa ambassador
Ana Tijoux – Chile’s voice of protest is embracing joy
2024 Preview – the albums you should be getting excited about this year
Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko – we look at how the two kora masters recorded classic album New Ancient Strings in 1999
Fruko – a Beginner’s Guide to the prolific Colombian bandleader
Katherine Priddy – the English singer-songwriter is on the ascendancy with her new album
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