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
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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
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Ritual Healing | an interview with Ayom
Ahead of their appearance at this year's Songlines Music Awards ceremony, revisit an interview with the Barcelona-based Ayom, whose push for greater global understanding via ritualistic Afro-Lusophone engagements bagged them 2021's Best Group category
Thursday, December 2, 2021
“My musical mission is to carry on where the ancients left off” | Michael Levy and his lyre
Michael Levy speaks to Simon Broughton about his ‘lyre of Apollo’ explorations, which follow in the exalted footsteps of the ancient Greek masters
Friday, November 26, 2021
“These trying times in which we now live demand combative women willing to risk it all to give us our freedom” | Susana Baca interview
For five decades Susana Baca has been performing plangent protest songs in the name of South America’s marginalised peoples, the poor and the planet. On the eve of the release of her latest album, Palabras Urgentes, the Afro-Peruvian diva talks to Chris Moss
