Monday, February 14, 2022
Karolina Cicha: Karaite Kid
Having recorded albums in Yiddish and Tatar, and songs in most of Poland’s minority tongues, Karolina Cicha talks about the Karaite people and their language
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Friday, February 11, 2022
Karine Polwart: A Beginner's Guide
The Scottish musician has become one of the most lauded names on the European folk scene. Tim Cumming follows Polwart’s career from her trad band origins to the award-winning singer-songwriter we know today
Monday, February 7, 2022
“You have to get it inside your heart” | Barbora Xu
The Czech artist talks about the Finnish and Chinese zithers feeding her distinctive sound, which bridges two seemingly disparate cultures
Friday, January 28, 2022
Auka: Peak Practice
Meet the Sheffield-based trio who used the isolation time of lockdown to fashion a striking homage to the natural world
Thursday, January 27, 2022
“Geomungo playing is a combination of melody, percussion and bass” | Hwang Hyeyoung
One half of the South Korean duo Dal:um, Hwang Hyeyoung speaks about her deep-toned, bamboo-plucked zither
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Marja Mortensson: The Sámi Way
Around half of the 80,000 indigenous Sámi people live in Norway. Simon Broughton talks to one of the country’s rising musical stars, Marja Mortensson, about how she’s invigorating the joik tradition. Photos Knut Åserud & Tom Askew-Miller
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Spell Songs: Eclectic Light Orchestra
Catching up with the stellar folk collective who are casting their illuminating charms on a world in need of a little magic
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
“I met a Hardanger fiddler who said if you give me your fiddle, I'll give you my farm” | Gro Marie Svidal
Heiress to a piece of Norwegian musical history, Gro Marie Svidal talks about the allure of her unique Hardanger inheritance
Monday, January 17, 2022
Sona Jobarteh interview: “It’s either education or your culture, and that was a big problem for me”
Gambian kora player Sona Jobarteh speaks to Lucy Hallam about how she is shaking up the continent’s antiquated education system and dragging the griot tradition into the 21st century
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Indian-Rock Fusion Albums | The Essential 10
The Beatles’ fusion of Indian music into Western pop inspired a monsoon of similarly adventurous experiments. Nigel Williamson offers a chronological selection of the most inventive albums of the last 50 years
Monday, January 10, 2022
Noam Vazana: Ladino Life
Israeli-born vocalist Noam Vazana composes songs in the Jewish Ladino language and speaks here to Simon Broughton about her fascination with this dying tongue
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
“I opened up this box and there was this sitar, it was the most awesome thing I’d ever seen” | Tommy Khosla
The stereotype-shattering sitarist talks about their deeply singular musical approach informed by dance, electronics and family reminiscences
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
“Part of the story of this album is to bring a sense of hope for the entire Indian subcontinent” | Purbayan Chatterjee interview
Indian sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee’s new star-studded album, a go-getting synthesis of South Asian and Western elements, is a creative response to the limitations of lockdown. Simon Broughton reports
Monday, January 3, 2022
Jeremy Loops | My World
The South African superstar talks about the revolutionary music that inspired him and ‘This Town’, his joyous collaboration with Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Monday, December 20, 2021
The Beatles in India
Nigel Williamson explores The Beatles and India, a new film lifting the lid on the Fab Four’s journey east and the impact that Indian music and culture had on the group’s own sound and legacy
