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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...
The globe-straddling cross-genre collective touch down in Mexico for an inspiring week of making music. Megan Iacobini de Fazio reports...
The best albums from the US & Canada this year, featuring Alison Krauss & Union Station, Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’, Parchman Prison Prayer, Peggy Seeger and Sam Amidon
In its 25th year, the festival has gone from strength to strength, bringing together the brightest Turkish talent and sourcing quality acts from across the globe.
Chris Wheatley speaks to Percy A Flores Navarro, the mind behind a new project infusing Peruvian pandilla with jazz, electronics and surf guitar
Despite continued fighting, there is new musical life in the country and new interest abroad. Simon Broughton and Veronica Doubleday report
Barbican hosts Western world’s largest festival of Indian classical music this October
The Palestinian brothers, Le Trio Joubran, are all masterful oud players. They talk to Tim Cumming about their constant battle for self-determination
Andrés Gualdrón delves into how African records, piracy and resistance shaped a Caribbean-Colombian sound
Le Trio Joubran and Mari Kalkun enchant at this scenic Brussels festival, blessed with an open musical agenda
Brazilian music is a whole world of its own. It may be best known for samba – the irrepressible rhythm of carnival – but that's only a fraction of the story
Brazilian music is a whole world of its own. It may be best known for samba – the irrepressible rhythm of carnival – but that's only a fraction of the story
Lebanese-French trumpeter and serial celebrity collaborator shares the debut single from his forthcoming full-length
Liverpool’s celebration of African music and culture returns to Sefton Park this year to commemorate three decades of good music. Jim Hickson reports
Meet a feverish quartet tying a knot between jazz, psych, maloya and Burkinabé music
Indian sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee’s new star-studded album, a go-getting synthesis of South Asian and Western elements, is a creative response to the limitations of lockdown. Simon Broughton reports
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