An experimental record label and research project blending field recordings, ambient soundscapes, and cultural storytelling to reconnect with Britain’s forgotten traditions and rituals
The global groove and harmony evangelists return with their first album since the death of founder Simon Emmerson. Jane Cornwell chats to original members, and now bandleaders, Johnny Kalsi and N’Faly Kouyaté
Megan Iacobini de Fazio speaks to a new generation of Spanish artists who are looking at their regional traditions and histories to express contemporary concerns
The West African superstar talks about growing up in Benin, her various musical influences and her creative practice
Los Angeles psych-soul superheroes follow genre-hopping fifth full-length with debut UK live dates
Lifting the veil on the innovative, often challenging, project bringing together Norwegian improvisers and Slovak Gypsy musicians
Serbian singer, folklorist and cultural activist Svetlana Spajić has dedicated her career to the passing down of oral traditions, and it’s taken her to some surprising places, including collaborations with Marina Abramović and Robert Wilson. Celeste Cantor-Stephens takes a journey through her career
Retro summer vibes from the star of Sudanese-American pop
Songlines’ October 2019 cover star and last year’s winner of the magazine’s World Pioneer award, Nitin Sawhney, is set to release his new album, Immigrants, later this year via Sony Music Masterworks
Latin specialists launch vinyl campaign for Rio de Janeiro compilation
If there was one sound emblematic of Armenia it would be the duduk. Simon Broughton appraises the career of the instrument’s most famous exponent who has just turned 90
Hailing from a line of musicians said to go back 71 generations, Toumani Diabaté is the undisputed king of the kora, the defining instrument of West Africa
World music documentaries on Malian folk traditions and Congolese rumba do the business at this month's Cannes’ Festival International du Film Panafricain
Haitian-American singer and multi-instrumentalist launches new freedom-themed singles series with potent polyphonic protest-song cover
Vincent Moon reveals a suite of ten films recorded in the contested independent state of Abkhazia, a sublime tropical land between Georgia and Russia
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