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Quinie: “I initially felt like I shouldn’t sing these songs”

Thomas Newell speaks to a Scottish singer threading Scots Traveller songs with a grassroots DIY aesthetic

Xenia França: “Black Brazilian women can finally be seen and heard for who they are”

Remarkable rising star Xenia França is challenging perceptions of what it means to be a Black Brazilian woman, quickly becoming the voice of a new generation of artists. Alex Robinson reports…

Quickfire: Ian Lynch (One Leg One Eye, Lankum)

Folk experimentalist and music scholar champions Rudimentary Peni rebellion and Richard Dawson’s disparate musical bricolage

Harp of Darkness: “If I expose the bin-baja harp, something will have to die”

Patrick Jered ventures into Madhya Pradesh in India to unearth the legendary bin-baja harp, widely considered as a pariah instrument

Q&A: Patrick Bebey

Cameroonian musician with a penchant for groovy Afro-jazz

Manu Chao's Clandestino appeared at the cross-fade of the millennium and sounded perfect – a radical masterpiece

Peter Culshaw reminisces on his time biographing the elusive Manu Chao as his classic solo album, Clandestino, is re-released 20 years on

Driss El Maloumi: A Beginner's Guide

One of the most in-demand oud players of his generation, Jo Frost discovers an artist whose musical curiosity shows no signs of abating

Ibrahim Maalouf Takes Flight With Single And Album Announcement

Lebanese-French trumpeter and serial celebrity collaborator shares the debut single from his forthcoming full-length

Quickfire: Ibrahim Maalouf

Waxing lyrical with the genre-bending French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer whose latest video features the socio-political star flow of actress and activist Sharon Stone

Smithsonian Folkways label director sacked

The recent sacking of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings’ director Huib Schippers has surprised the music industry

My World: Olivia Harrison

Olivia Harrison, the wife of the late Beatle George Harrison, talks about how George's collaborations with Indian musicians helped shape her own musical tastes

ganavya releases meditative new cut via Shabaka Hutchings’ Native Rebel Recordings

Watch the new video for the South Asian singer’s latest otherworldly track, ‘forgive me my’, a philosophical musing on mortality

French film-maker Vincent Moon walked away from a career documenting Western rock royalty to create what could be the most impressive and vast ethnomusicology experiment of the 21st Century. Anne Girard Esposito speaks to Moon about his many travels