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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.
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Folk Round-Up (Astrid Williamson, Eve Goodman, and Thorpe & Morrison)
A selection of essential folk releases from England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales including new albums from Astrid Williamson, Eve Goodman, and Thorpe & Morrison.
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Soapbox: Swimming Against The Stream
Does more mean less in the digital music market place?
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The great musical genres of the 20th and 21st centuries
The music of the world has been constantly shaped by its wider contexts – from politics to economics and social movements. Here Chris Moss selects the most important genres to have been born across the last 100-plus years
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Ben Wheatley's My World interview: “It’s as close as you can get as an adult to the thrill of Christmas”
The acclaimed English auteur tells Patrick Clarke how his love of music drove him to overcome a creative mental block and score his own soundtrack
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“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
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Folk Round-Up: Nordic fire, Irish Americana and English folk song
Featuring Wyn Oran, Innocent Hare, Tern, Hartwin and Lorraine Nash
Best New Albums
Best New Albums – January/February 2021 (Mariza, Cocanha, Lolomis, Ayom)
Great new releases from Mariza, Cocanha, Lolomis, Ayom, Star Feminine Band and more... Tracks from all of these albums are included on the free cover-CD with the January/February 2021 issue of Songlines
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The Baltic Sisters: breathing new life into Lithuanian sutartinės
The Baltic Sisters, singers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, open a gate into sutartinės, a beguiling regional treasure
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Roots Round-Up: Watchhouse, Valerie June, The Faux Paws and more
This is quite the grab-bag of music reviews from North American artists, ranging from pop-leaning to super out-there experimental, but still all rooted in tradition
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Syrian oud player and composer Rihab Azar discusses new album Dandelion and launch concert in London
Thérèse Wassily Saba speaks to London-based Syrian oud player and composer Rihab Azar ahead of the launch of her new album at London’s Kings Place
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Amazigh Renaissance: The Free People
Bianca Carrera meets a new generation of musicians in the Amazigh diaspora who challenge prejudice through their heritage and language
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Vitor Araújo on TORÓ: 'I did 90 per cent of the concert with nine fingers'
Brazilian pianist and composer Vitor Araújo shares how an ambitious work combining a symphony orchestra and Afro-Brazilian rituals almost cost him his finger
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Folk Round-Up (Bailey & Keely, Hayden Thorpe and Malachy Tallack)
Essential folk releases from Ireland, England, Scotland & Wales, featuring new albums from Bailey & Keely, Hayden Thorpe and Malachy Tallack
