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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
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Jazz is World Music
Why is there so much snobbery and closed-mindedness about jazz from the ‘world music police’?
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April 2023 issue is out now!
Ali Farka Touré, Baaba Maal, Hack-Poets Guild, Polobi, the aboriginal music of Taiwan, a Beginner’s Guide to the recently departed Gal Costa, free Top of the World CD, plus much, much more
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Marina Satti: Eurovision bound
Mateusz Dobrowolski checks in on the vocalist representing Greece at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
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Rainforest World Music Festival 2025
A Malaysian tropical paradise known as the ‘Land of the Hornbills’ is the ultimate destination for adventurous music lovers.
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Vincent Moon: Nomad Cinema
French film-maker Vincent Moon walked away from a career documenting Western rock royalty to create what could be the most impressive and vast ethnomusicology experiment of the 21st Century. Anne Girard Esposito speaks to Moon about his many travels
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How Astor Piazzolla transformed tango
Chris Moss assesses the intrepid composer’s impact on music – and why his legacy, 100 years on since the great man’s birth, remains a challenge for contemporary tangueros
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Introducing... Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou
The young Moroccan musician tells Jo Frost how she’s realised her early childhood dreams by fronting her own Gnawa band
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Mali
Few African countries have contributed so many important artists to the World Music market: Salif Keita, Toumani Diabaté, Habib Koité, Kandia Kouyaté, Oumou Sangaré and the late Ali Farka Touré being but a few
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The Sabri Brothers: A Beginner's Guide
Jameela Siddiqi celebrates the legacy of the first qawwali group to find fame and send devotees into spiritual ecstasy around the world
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The Gurdjieff Ensemble's Sacred Movements
As Armenia’s The Gurdjieff Ensemble make their first visit to the UK for Songlines Encounters Festival, Simon Broughton talks to the group’s director about the enigmatic composer and mystic who inspired the ensemble
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Albums of the Year 2024: Songlines Recommends...
Looking back over the past 12 months at the albums that have made the biggest impression
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Folk maps: five new albums that chart a course through Britain’s musical landscapes
Featuring new releases from Filkin’s Drift, TRIP, Gavin Fairhall Lever, Chris Brain and Dan Sealey
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Sir David Attenborough reveals his musical inspirations
The legendary broadcaster revisits the sounds of his early career on a recent BBC programme that reveals a little-known side to the beloved naturalist – that of a world music collector. He shares his favourite tracks with producer Julian May
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Ibrahim Maalouf: “I’ve always believed that music should be limitless… i can blend my trumpet’s melodic lines with the sharp, rhythmic beats of rap”
Ibrahim Maalouf has drawn on everything he’s learned during his stellar career to make what might be his crowning achievement, a homage to his ancestry that is more lyrical than any instrumental album can rightly claim to be
