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Introducing... Balkan Taksim
A new Romanian duo are revisiting the Balkan sound with a fresher, more sophisticated approach. Robert Rigney finds out what inspires them
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The Rough Guide to World Music
The Rough Guide to World Music: Nigeria
Nigeria's best-known cultural exports – juju, Afrobeat and fuji music – barely scratch the surface of the vast and vibrant cultural topography of the nation
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Oumou Sangaré
Known as the 'Wassoulou songbird', Oumou Sangaré is one of Mali's greatest singers and activists who is constantly challenging gender inequalities
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Nigeria
Nigeria's best-known cultural exports – juju, Afrobeat and fuji music – barely scratch the surface of the vast and vibrant cultural topography of the nation
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Q&A: Júlia Colom
On her latest album Miramar, Júlia Colom explores the traditions and culture of Mallorca, both through her versions of traditional Mallorcan tonades and through original songs borne from research and her connection to the region
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Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids to release new album ‘Afro Futuristic Dreams’ in September
Cosmic jazz collective release first single, a 13-minute journey through spiritual jazz, Afrobeat and choral music, from upcoming new album
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Balinese gamelan: a complete guide to a unique world of sound
The Indonesian island of Bali resounds with the vibrant, often thunderous music of its gamelans – the ubiquitous percussion orchestras of bronze and bamboo. Andy Channing conjures up the magic of its many incarnations
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Orpheus at Opera North
Composer and sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun gives Monteverdi a modern-day East-meets-West makeover
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Setting the Scene: Mary Ocher
We speak to Mary Ocher, a musician, performer, poet and visual artist to find out where she calls ‘home’
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Video: Fatoumata Diawara’s ‘Nsera’
Fatoumata Diawara maps out a polemical journey home in the video for her latest single 'Nsera', a track taken from her much-anticipated forthcoming album
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Playlist: Women of Hip-Hop
Spanning from Senegal to Guatemala, Libya to London, this global roster of female MCs continues in the footsteps of legends like MC Lyte and Lauryn Hill, helping to redefine women’s role in hip-hop.
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Kaia Kater
Canadian Kaia Kater's a tough, drawling voice and magnificent banjo work seamlessly together, marking her as a contemporary, organic part of an ancient tradition
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Soema Montenegro: “My music can’t be pinpointed or catalogued, I’m very experimental”
Soema Montenegro tells Silvia Rothlisberger about the ancestral connections and magical realism influencing her new album. “I’m not transmitting musical notes, but sensations,” she explains
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“These trying times in which we now live demand combative women willing to risk it all to give us our freedom” | Susana Baca interview
For five decades Susana Baca has been performing plangent protest songs in the name of South America’s marginalised peoples, the poor and the planet. On the eve of the release of her latest album, Palabras Urgentes, the Afro-Peruvian diva talks to Chris Moss
