Live reviews
Jazz Sous Les Pommiers, Coutances, France, May 16-20
The annual week-long jazz festival in France featured DakhaBrakha, Femi Kuti, Noura Mint Seymali, Antonio Lizana and Robert Cray
Search results for
Features
Jazz is World Music
Why is there so much snobbery and closed-mindedness about jazz from the ‘world music police’?
News
Artists in isolation: enjoy performances by musicians from around the world, via YouTube and Facebook
Musicians around the world have taken to social media to perform their music – and it is wonderfully life-affirming
Features
Montparnasse Musique: “With music, we have this chance to speak without words”
Montparnasse Musique discuss the centrality of pan-African history, movement, people and atmosphere in their music
Features
“I met a Hardanger fiddler who said if you give me your fiddle, I'll give you my farm” | Gro Marie Svidal
Heiress to a piece of Norwegian musical history, Gro Marie Svidal talks about the allure of her unique Hardanger inheritance
Features
Spotlight: Gaye Su Akyol
Turkish singer Gaye Su Akyol talks about her captivating fourth album which explores the perimeters of space and individual creativity
Features
Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie: a meeting of minds
A one-off recording pairs the poet and award-winning percussionist. That they’re both deaf was incidental. Jane Cornwell uncovers the duo’s “instant connection”
Features
Merlin Sheldrake's My World interview: “Much of creativity seems to happen at the tension between habit and creativity, between order and chaos”
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to one of the world’s foremost authorities on fungi and discovers his parallel love for music
Features
The Joy: “You can hear how we poured our hearts into the songs”
The Joy started their a capella singing in a small classroom in rural South Africa; now they’re set to release their eponymous full-length album
Best New Albums
The Best New Albums from Around the World (July 2024)
This month we feature outstanding new releases from The Joy, The Zawose Queens, Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper, Ajate and more
Features
My World: Eddie Kadi
For the Congolese-British comedian, music and entertainment have always gone hand in hand. He tells Emma Rycroft about the sounds of his upbringing and his continued role as a “facilitator of modern-day African music”
Features
Making music in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp
Kakuma Sound’s co-founder reports from one of the world’s largest refugee camps, an inspirational musical wellspring for social change
Features
Eliza Carthy: "I wanted to throw my arms around them and tell them that they weren’t alone"
Eliza and Martin Carthy step on a plane to the States with some trepidation, but find warmth and welcome in their friends across the pond
Features
Youssou N’Dour | My World: “Africa has no cultural frontiers, it mixes genres effortlessly. That’s the future for me”
Having recently turned 60, the Senegalese star is taking stock and looking to the future, as reflected in his My World playlist. He talks to Daniel Brown about his choices
Features
My World: Benjamin Zephaniah
Following the sad news of Benjamin Zephaniah's (1958-2023) death we wanted to publish our interview with the much-loved poet from December 2007 (#48), when we discussed his love of music at length.
