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“We wanted to shake things up, break some walls with traditional music” | Mélisande [électrotrad]
Meet the Québécois group’s core duo artfully blending French-Canadian trad and club-friendly electronics
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Review of 2024: a year of protests and boycotts
Erin Cobby takes a close look at the music industry’s muddled reaction to the war between Israel and Hamas
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¡Viva Los Domingos!
Sundays in London are about to get a lot more Cuban as a new monthly residency fires up a crack team of timba musicians for its inaugural event
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Great albums from around the world - country by country and genre by genre
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Sir David Attenborough reveals his musical inspirations
The legendary broadcaster revisits the sounds of his early career on a recent BBC programme that reveals a little-known side to the beloved naturalist – that of a world music collector. He shares his favourite tracks with producer Julian May
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A to Jazz Festival, Sofia, July 4
Justin Turford explores one of Europe's newest showcases of world music
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Celtic Connections 2025: much-loved festival to warm up winter nights in Glasgow
Audiences can look forward to a diverse line-up of homegrown and international musical talent
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Essential 10 Latin Psych Albums – Selected by Adrian Quesada
Charis McGowan finds out the records that inspired Adrian Quesada’s latest psychedelic bolero opus
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Ethiopia In Brussels: Mulatu Astatke & Black Flower review
Ethio-Jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke played a retrospective set from his golden era on the opening night of the Brussels Jazz Festival
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Gloria Estefan's My World interview: “If everyone was a purist, music would stop”
Latin idol, Cuban exile, Miami mentor and unrivalled queen of the conga, Charis McGowan speaks to the multi-award-winning songstress about returning to her roots
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Victory Dance: Interview with Pongo
From war-torn Angola to the ‘northern lights’ of Trømso World Festival, Pongo tells Jane Cornwell, “I have come a very long way”
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Lubomyr Melnyk's My World interview: “I could feel the continuous energy pouring through my body and arms and hands”
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to a classically trained pianist whose music is faster, louder and more transcendent than anything else out there
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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
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Notting Hill Carnival: a celebration of Europe's largest street festival
Local resident Christopher Conder explores the past and present of the largest street festival in Europe, Notting Hill Carnival
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Timba rising: 'Cuban Sundays – Live Music Series' brings a new wave of Latin heat to London
Jane Cornwell finds out about a residency bringing the popular Cuban sounds of timba to London. “February was a masterclass in Cuban genres… The crowd were going crazy”, she hears
