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
The Welsh trio VRï are injecting new life into traditional songs, mining the country’s past for the stories of everyday people
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
Folk experimentalist and music scholar champions Rudimentary Peni rebellion and Richard Dawson’s disparate musical bricolage
The Belarusian accordionist tells us how he is seeking to revolutionise the instrument's image with his debut album
Portuguese singer Sara Correia reveals the toughness and will that saw her journey from the high-rise blocks of working-class Lisbon to the global stage
Punk-rock brothers Mongo and Kacho Gama explain how they became the unlikely ambassadors of Mexico’s marimba scene
Boosting Dylan and talking world medal martial arts with the Irish singer and fiddle-player channelling the music of her ancestors
One of the world’s foremost sound recordists talks about capturing the genius loci and his enduring love of reggae
Robin Denselow talks to the French-Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi, whose latest album is a testament to survival amid the depths of global despondency and personal hardship
Afghan singer Elaha Soroor talks to Simon Broughton about her role in a play that mirrors her own flight as a refugee and the fate of her family back home since the Taliban’s return to power
Nigel Williamson selects 10 vital albums brimming with bluegrass, clawhammer and old-time reinventions
American banjo and fiddle player Jake Blount explains to Alexandra Petropoulos how he’s using the sounds and lessons of history and the global climate crisis to envision a new future for Black spiritual music
French-American musician and producer Thomas Attar Bellier talks about his sizzling new psych-rock unit who are fusing North African trance and Middle Eastern melodies with elements of alternative rock
Waxing lyrical with the genre-bending French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer whose latest video features the socio-political star flow of actress and activist Sharon Stone
Folk singer and fiddle player Jackie Oates explores the confessional nature of folk song on her new album, Gracious Wings
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