Thursday, January 30, 2025
Folk Archives: Tabla Tarang
The tabla tarang is a set of between 10 and 16 tablas with each tabla tuned to a different note
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Fireside Stories: Josienne Clarke on Sandy Denny
As British singer-songwriter Josienne Clarke prepares Across the Evening Sky, her touring show of Sandy Denny songs, she reflects on her lifelong love for Denny’s music and the power it exerts today
Thursday, January 30, 2025
10 Essential Bulgarian Albums
Nikolas-Kaan Yilmaz picks out ten albums that trace the nation’s fascinating musical timeline, asking Bulgarian musicians and fans of Bulgarian music alike to share some of their favourites along the way
Thursday, January 30, 2025
My World: Niall Ferguson
Simon Broughton chats immigration, inhibitions and the power of music with one of Britain’s foremost authorities on empire
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Songbook: ‘Oldenfjord’ with Sam Amidon and Grey Larsen
On his new record, Sam Amidon has recorded Grey Larsen’s Nordic melody. The two artists tell Devon Léger about the tune and its history
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Quickfire: Chuck Prophet
San Francisco-based singer-songwriter with a rock’n’roll heart and plenty of country swagger answers a few Quickfire questions. His latest album, Wake the Dead, sees him embrace cumbia, a genre he fell in love with while recovering from cancer.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Lexicons of Love: Report from Liet International
Corsica hosts Liet International, a song contest dedicated to Europe’s lesser-known languages. Jo Frost speaks to 2024's winner, Nani Vazana
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Companions in Crisis
Russ Slater Johnson introduces the February/March 2025 issue
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Take Note: OMIRI and Mynda Guevera
Floor-filling, research-heavy live shows and female-inclusive Creole rap from two of the most exciting artists in Portugal right now.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Mali Obomsawin: "No one needed to hear another indie record, but we wanted to put it out, and we got this very surprising, huge response to it"
Jeff Kaliss speaks to the Abenaki First Nation artist set to unleash her fourth release of the year
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The 4 Corners and Centre of Baba Zula’s Universe
Osman Murat Ertel of Turkish psychedelic ambassadors Baba Zula walks us through his formative records
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Q&A: Flock
As Flock release their second album, Flock II, we probe the group's creative process
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Roots Round-Up (Marcella Simien, Rosier, Eliza Thorn and more)
Essential Roots releases from the US and Canada, featuring Morgan Harris, Locarno and Tamar Ilana
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Get acquainted with Dusking, a new ritual to welcome the winter
Sophie Parkes dances down the sun with Lucy Wright, choreographer of a new ritual for solo morris performers ushering in the oncoming winter
