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All aboard Africa Express, next stop... Bahidorá
The globe-straddling cross-genre collective touch down in Mexico for an inspiring week of making music. Megan Iacobini de Fazio reports...
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50 Global Guitar Greats
50 guitarists who have made an impact outside of the usual rock’n’roll axis of axes
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Mariza’s World
Mariza won the Best Artist category in the Songlines Music Awards 2016. Following the release of her first album in five years, Mariza makes sure fado is not a limitation. Mundo, she tells Gonçalo Frota, is her way of saying these are happy times
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Nitin Sawhney interview: “Beyond Skin was about the paradox of how we perceive nationality and religion”
The composer, producer and musical polymath Nitin Sawhney is revisiting his acclaimed Beyond Skin album 20 years after its release. He talks politics and music with Nigel Williamson
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Yiddishkeit Futures
The klezmer revival began in the US half a century ago. Musicians from marginalised communities delved deeper into klezmer’s European roots while adopting contemporary, open-minded approaches to play the music. Celeste Cantor-Stephens speaks to three musicians whose work carries on traditions of ‘klezmer’ in different ways, asking if the klezmer revival is experiencing a new wave, or whether that initial revival ever really stopped
