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Blick Bassy trails new album with urgent aqua vitae eco-warning

Soulful singer-songwriter paints in watercolours for an eco-conscious follow-up to his award-winning 1958

Scotland Unwrapped at Kings Place

Karine Polwart, Aidan O’Rourke and Jasdeep Singh Degun join the bill for a year-long celebration of Scottish music and spoken-word

Obituary: Simon Emmerson (1956-2023)

The Afro Celt Sound System founder, initiator of The Imagined Village, record producer, composer, guitarist and birdsong enthusiast has passed away

Heemoon Lee & OBANGSINGWA, London, November 23

After blowing away audiences in 2018, Heemoon Lee returned to London with a new group, OBANGSINGWA, to perform a stunning end to this year's K-Music Festival.

Fifth Fela Kuti Vinyl Box Due December

Fill up on Fela with Partisan Records' latest vinyl reissues from the Kuti back catalogue

Quickfire: Ruby Colley

Talking all-time favourite albums and memorable musical encounters with the violinist, composer and sound artist inspired by folk, improv and minimalism

Songlines #162 (November 2020) is out now!

Zoë Modiga champions cultural identity in an uncertain world; getting serious with South Korea's latest live sensations ADG7; the new country generation bringing diversity back to bluegrass; the mystery behind the Melodisc label; a Beginner's Guide to Cheikh Lô and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines

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Jembaa Groove Do The Hustle

International soul-jazz sensations herald the release of their sophomore album with first single, ‘Dabia’, and a forthcoming European tour

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Ichiko Aoba: “I was diving in the ocean with just the breath in my lungs, swimming with whales, listening to them sing”

Breakout Japanese folk star Ichiko Aoba speaks to Paul Bowler about formative influences and reveals how the experience of free diving off the coast of Japan helped inspire her latest album

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Balimaya Project announce new album and special London live show

Afro-jazz luminaries set the date for release of When the Dust Settles and Barbican headline slot

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Purbayan Chatterjee's star-studded raga rendezvous

Sitar maestro hooks up with Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, Mame Khan and Michael League on exclusive video for Rajasthani-meets-bluegrass voyage, 'Lalitha (The Joyful Mother)'

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Toumani Diabaté and Ballaké Sissoko: 21 Strings

With Toumani and Ballaké’s epochal New Ancient Strings to be reissued for its 25th anniversary, we speak to Lucy Durán, the album’s producer, about the unique recording and her documentary tracing the history of the kora

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BCUC: Trusting in Love

Diane Coetzer talks to the South African band BCUC who are exporting their traditional Soweto music across the globe and mesmerising audiences, one transcendental show at a time