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WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Four, October 24

Simon Broughton checks into the last day of digital performances and enjoys the concerts of Hungarian bands with a real audience that took place in Budapest.

Obituary: Péter Éri (1953 – 2023)

A member of the hugely influential four-piece Hungarian folk band Muzsikás, Peter Éri has died from lung cancer aged 70.

Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) release single ahead of WOMAD

Brotherhood is the key for the first single from the Surinamese siblings’ new album

Djivan Gasparyan: A Beginner's Guide

If there was one sound emblematic of Armenia it would be the duduk. Simon Broughton appraises the career of the instrument’s most famous exponent who has just turned 90

Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu - Global Beats @ Pizza Express Live, October 24

Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu perform at the Global Beats festival at Pizza Express Live, Holborn.

Manu Chao's Clandestino appeared at the cross-fade of the millennium and sounded perfect – a radical masterpiece

Peter Culshaw reminisces on his time biographing the elusive Manu Chao as his classic solo album, Clandestino, is re-released 20 years on

Today is Good! Songs of refugees to be released

On June 30, the charity Arts Against Slavery will launch a CD of music written by young asylum-seekers based in Sicily.

Obituary: Lee 'Scratch' Perry (1936-2021)

The Jamaican record producer and singer famed for his innovative studio alchemy is remembered

Cara de Espelho: Time to Protest

Alarmed by the far-right surge, Cara de Espelho have gathered members of some of Portugal’s best-loved bands to create something new, and urgently needed. Gonçalo Frota meets the group and attends one of their first shows

Features

Jambinai: definitely not K-Pop

David Hutcheon speaks to Jambinai, the South Korean band bravely exploring a middle ground between traditional music and heavy metal

News

Sir David Attenborough in the December issue of Songlines Magazine

The nation's favourite natural scientist discusses his recently-rediscovered musical field recordings from 1954-63 in the latest issue of Songlines Magazine