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Thursday, April 9, 2026

10 Essential Highlife Albums

Florence Adooni, Santrofi, Kay Slice, Ata Kak, Me & My Friends and Ireke select their favourite Ghanaian highlife releases

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Introducing ... ZENA

Jim Hickson on the London duo channelling Ethiopian tradition and contemporary cool into experimental pop gold

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Dispatch: Mardi Gras in Louisiana

Russell Higham visits Louisiana, home of the world-famous Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and Lafayette, where he finds a state proudly and positively celebrating its musical connections to the wider world

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Label of Love: Planet Ilunga

Chris Wheatley catches up with the owner of a Belgian imprint curating the rhythms of Congolese rumba

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Q&A: La Muchacha

A Colombian singer-songwriter whose words have soundtracked her country’s protests

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Charif Megarbane: A Beginner's Guide

Megan Iacobini de Fazio speaks with the genre-busting Lebanese multi-instrumentalist and composer, a conjuror of remarkable “illusions of proximity”

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Songs of the Silenced

A new instalment from the Yiddish Glory project revisits lost Yiddish songs from World War II ghettos and labour camps, though this time the themes are broader. “In ghettos, what they find funny is toilet humour”, hears Simon Broughton

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Horse-Fiddle Futures

KG Hutchins joins the nomad Mongolian fiddlers communicating with nature and preserving a threatened land

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