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Introducing Los Bitchos

Cumbia, disco and video game music are on the playlist for the London-based quartet’s second album. April Clare Welsh pulls up a stool

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: A Beginner's Guide

Andrew Taylor-Dawson charts the influential and innovative history of Benin’s premier funky vodoun collective

A Song for Freedom: Lemez and Maksym’s Tribute to Ukrainian POWs

A new campaign, The Stronger We Become, are releasing their first track to raise awareness of the situation for Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees

Ebo Taylor (1936–2026)

Ghanaian guitarist and bandleader who fused traditional highlife with funk and Afrobeat in the 1970s, then found global recognition decades later and continued to be a tour de force

Songlines January/February 2022 issue is out now!

Our best albums of 2021; the return of star-studded folk ensemble Spell Songs; an investigative plunge into changüí, the irrepressible sound of Guantánamo; a Beginner's Guide to Karine Polwart, plus more inside

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Introducing... Emily Wurramara

On her latest album the rising Anindilyakwa star channels trauma, ancestral knowledge and togetherness. “It’s a community-driven record”, she declares