Joe Boyd Roots For Global Rhythms In Latest Captivating Chronicles

Record producer-par-excellence for everyone from Floyd and Fairport to ¡Cubanismo! and Toumani Diabaté, Hannibal label boss and author of critically-acclaimed autobiography, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, Joe Boyd has spent an alternate lifetime voyaging the globe, immersing himself in its music, personally witnessing the rising popularity of audio vernaculars emerging from Africa, India, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe since the 1960s, before becoming a key protagonist in the ‘world music’ movement during the 1980s.

Now, in an absorbing new history, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music, published by Faber on July 4, Boyd explores the fascinating backstories behind these captivating sounds, documenting an illuminating carnival of encounters in such places as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston and Rio, with extraordinary artists responsible for altering the course of music forever.

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music will be published by Faber on July 4, in hardback, eBook and Audiobook