Thursday, March 6, 2025
Musicians of the Nile pay tribute to Oum Kalthoum in Paris
Egyptian musicians come together in Paris to celebrate the life of one of the world’s most iconic singers
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
Introducing: Kin’gongolo Kiniata
There is nothing trashy about this potent Congolese group recycling rumba for the ultimate junk jam
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Catriona Price: Routes to Roots
Scottish fiddler Catriona Price discusses grand plans to bring international musicians together through her ever-ambitious project
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The 4 Corners and Centre of Amayo’s Universe
Amayo, former frontman of Antibalas, has released a solo album honouring traditional Edo customs and his martial arts training. He picks the albums (and film) which led to this moment
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Kashmir’s beatboxers are fighting for recognition
Kashmir’s beatboxers come together to find harmony and opportunities through the blackouts
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Park Jiha: “Being able to keep doing something as valuable as music brings an immense sense of meaningfulness to my life”
“Life always flows on”, says the Korean musician, considering the self-awareness and gratitude that led to her assured, meditative new album
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Label of Love: Arabusta
“These are records that have so much potential, that are incredibly crafted, but for a series of circumstances maybe didn’t get the recognition they deserved at the time of release”
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Festival Review: SQUARE aims for creativity and collaboration on Braga debut
For its debut festival, SQUARE takes artists, delegates and locals on a merry dance across four Portuguese cities
Thursday, March 6, 2025
A Conversation with Abel Selaocoe
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe tells Emma Rycroft about the origins and inspirations behind his new album, Hymns of Bantu: “I wanted to celebrate all the people at home who really influenced me”, he explains
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Alabaster DePlume: “Some tend to consider Palestine as some sort of rubble, but these are people with lives”
Jane Cornwell speaks to wordsmith, sonic alchemist and champion of the disenfranchised Alabaster DePlume about the power of collective healing and facing up to fear during an artistic residency in besieged Palestine
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The Rise and Resistance of Cambodian Hip-Hop
Alex Robinson visits Cambodia, where a new generation are using hip-hop as a force for social change despite repression that carries dark echoes of the country’s past
Thursday, March 6, 2025
2025 Preview: Reasons to be Cheerful
A lot is cooking this year. Here are the albums you should be getting excited about, from unknown West Virginian gospel singers and Afrobeat legends to Indigenous Brazilians playing ‘country music’ and soulful Ethiopian sounds
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Andy Irvine: A Beginner's Guide
The Irish music icon tells Emma Rycroft about Planxty’s swift success, his love of Balkan music and the array of sounds he’s explored from his first days in Dublin
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The Gurdjieff Ensemble's Sacred Movements
As Armenia’s The Gurdjieff Ensemble make their first visit to the UK for Songlines Encounters Festival, Simon Broughton talks to the group’s director about the enigmatic composer and mystic who inspired the ensemble
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Ichiko Aoba: “I was diving in the ocean with just the breath in my lungs, swimming with whales, listening to them sing”
Breakout Japanese folk star Ichiko Aoba speaks to Paul Bowler about formative influences and reveals how the experience of free diving off the coast of Japan helped inspire her latest album
