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Folk Archives: Tabla Tarang

The tabla tarang is a set of between 10 and 16 tablas with each tabla tuned to a different note

Dispatch from: Asunción, Paraguay

Through fantastical water instruments, Sonidos de la Tierra have been helping bring both music and environmental activism to Paraguay’s communities. Huw Hennessy finds out more…

“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

Amália Rodrigues: A Beginner's Guide

Pleasure, pain and poetry – the ‘Queen of Fado’ gave Portugal its soundtrack during a turbulent 20th century. Chris Moss looks back over Amália’s career

Take Note: OMIRI and Mynda Guevera

Floor-filling, research-heavy live shows and female-inclusive Creole rap from two of the most exciting artists in Portugal right now.

Chromesthesia: the Colour of Sound

Acclaimed British-Egyptian academic Dr Hannah Elsisi discusses an ambitious new project surveying the sonic and sensory rituals surrounding African migration

Electric Jalaba: “It’s the feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove”

Gnawa music from Morocco forms the basis of Electric Jalaba’s groove-laden sound. Jane Cornwell speaks to Oliver Keen and Dave De Rose about how the band came together and their experimental, improvised approach

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Lola Flores: a beginner's guide

Philip Sweeney takes a look back at the life of the flamenco singer, dancer and actress who remains a beacon of Andalucian culture

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Lágrima Ríos: recovering the lost Paris sessions of an Afro-Latin tango icon

Serendipity brings to light a historic recording from Lágrima Ríos, one of few Afro-Latin singers to find fame in tango

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Take Note: MOMO.

The nomadic Brazilian has taken inspiration from his daughter and current headquarters in London to make the most percussive album of his career. “I privileged the spontaneity of the grooves,” he tells Mark Sampson