Features

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Quickfire: Daniel Bachman

Finger-picking guitarist, audio collagist and folk scholar talks Amish hoedowns, Mortal Kombat and some mind-blowing albums

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Spotlight: Gaye Su Akyol

Turkish singer Gaye Su Akyol talks about her captivating fourth album which explores the perimeters of space and individual creativity

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Montparnasse Musique: “With music, we have this chance to speak without words”

Montparnasse Musique discuss the centrality of pan-African history, movement, people and atmosphere in their music

Monday, January 23, 2023

Quickfire: Raül Refree

Innovative Spanish record producer, musician and composer talks favourite albums, extreme sleep patterns and Tony Allen’s trans-dimensional life force

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Erol Josué interview: “I wanted to participate in the reconstruction of Haiti’s national heritage. I needed to be there”

The vodou priest, singer, actor and choreographer Erol Josué is on a mission to dispel the myths and misconceptions about Haiti’s musical religion

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Emily Portman interview: “Living in the world, I feel like we just need a bit of magic... and the creative process is about finding that magic”

Emily Portman talks about her search for magic and modern connections in the folk tales that inform her music

Monday, January 16, 2023

Terry Riley interview: “Every decade of my life has had a different focus”

The pioneering minimalist composer talks about the Indian music that captured his imagination and his tutelage under Pandit Pran Nath

Friday, January 13, 2023

“The big mining companies trying to take this land and push the reindeer people away” | How Solju are standing up for the Sámi culture

When not herding reindeer, Finnish mother-daughter duo Solju are bringing the Sámi tradition of joiking to wider audiences

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Spotlight: Jerusalem Orchestra East & West

Tom Cohen, conductor of the Jerusalem Orchestra East & West, previews the collective’s forthcoming performance at the Barbican with Moroccan multi-instrumentalist Mehdi Nassouli

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Quickfire: George Telek

One of Papua New Guinea’s most celebrated singer-songwriters talks secret society survival strategies, and hypes up some of his region’s most essential artists and albums

Monday, January 9, 2023

The Unthanks: Beginner's Guide

Tim Cumming assembles an anatomy of melancholia as he speaks to Tyne and Wear’s finest folk-singing sisters about their career and catalogue

Friday, January 6, 2023

Quickfire: Polly Bolton (The Trials of Cato)

Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and one third of boundary-crossing folk group The Trials of Cato talks turning points, top albums and clandestine synth strategies

Thursday, January 5, 2023

VRï interview: “Traditional music is owned by the people”

The Welsh trio VRï are injecting new life into traditional songs, mining the country’s past for the stories of everyday people

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

The great musical genres of the 20th and 21st centuries

The music of the world has been constantly shaped by its wider contexts – from politics to economics and social movements. Here Chris Moss selects the most important genres to have been born across the last 100-plus years