Thursday, October 31, 2024
Gaelynn Lea: “If a venue doesn’t have a ramp for the stage, I’m playing on the floor”
Ian Brennan speaks to Gaelynn Lea, a musician and disability advocate from America’s heartland, about her 21st-century folk music
Features
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Marc Ribot: A Beginner's Guide
The US guitarist talks to Daniel Spicer about his artificially enhanced Cuban troupe, learning under Haiti’s Frantz Casseus, playing to Susana Baca’s dance moves and why he prefers Caetano Veloso on record
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Essential 10 When Jazz Goes Latin Albums
Giant of Latin jazz, pianist Eddie Palmieri dismissed ‘jazz Latin’ as simply jazz with added congas. Here, Mark Sampson picks out some of his favourite Latin-flavoured recordings by jazz artists who dared to add that dancing drum
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Manu Chao Acoustic: Return of the Vanishing Man
Manu Chao makes a triumphant London comeback with a manic acoustic performance at Brixton 02 Academy
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Making Tracks at London’s Grand Junction
Global musicians unite at London’s Grand Junction on October 3 for a night of impromptu artistic alliances
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Chromesthesia: the Colour of Sound
Acclaimed British-Egyptian academic Dr Hannah Elsisi discusses an ambitious new project surveying the sonic and sensory rituals surrounding African migration
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Introducing... ganavya
Erin Cobby speaks to the singer and multi-instrumentalist influenced by ancient Hindu fables, community spirit and the philosophy of Alice Coltrane
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Festival reviews - Tlalli & ¡Globalquerque!
Catalina Maria Johnson visits festivals in the US and Canada bringing global and ancestral music to a new audience
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Take Note: MOMO.
The nomadic Brazilian has taken inspiration from his daughter and current headquarters in London to make the most percussive album of his career. “I privileged the spontaneity of the grooves,” he tells Mark Sampson
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Book Preview: Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain
A new multimedia project explores the traditions and music of the monastic residents of Mount Athos in Greece, where little has changed over centuries
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Meeting Muireann Bradley
Paul Slade speaks to a young Irish guitarist Muireann Bradley, who is infatuated with Reverend Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotten and John Fahey and whose debut album was one of the sleeper hits of 2023
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Spotlight: Warsaw Street Music
The traditional street music of Warsaw is undergoing a revival. Mateusz Dobrowolski takes us on a tour of Poland’s capital, looking back at the events and iconic figures that shaped the popular music of this ‘phoenix city’
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Mostar Sevdah Reunion at 25
Kim Burton looks back on 25 years of Mostar Sevdah Reunion, the Bosnian band with a wild history who have been building new musical bridges to replace the old ones laid waste by war
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Roots Round-Up (JP Harris, Olivia Barrett, Aerialists and more)
Introducings new releases from Justin Golden, Tinkham Road, JP Harris, Olivia Barrett and Aerialists
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Adriana Lisboa's My World: “When I started to become a professional musician, I had no more time for writing”
Chris Wheatley speaks to the Brazilian writer about her formative years as a musician and how music informs everything she does
