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Exceptional international artists gather for UK-based project focused on themes of intercultural and interspecies collaboration

Meeting Asha Puthli: “I have a four-octave range from my classical training and I just went for it, this spaced-out singing”

Undeterred by expectations, Asha Puthli had a vision of uniting Indian classical music with jazz, heading to New York and getting a job singing with a free-jazz icon. It was the beginning of an adventurous, incendiary and unparalleled career

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Electric Jalaba: “It’s the feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove”

Gnawa music from Morocco forms the basis of Electric Jalaba’s groove-laden sound. Jane Cornwell speaks to Oliver Keen and Dave De Rose about how the band came together and their experimental, improvised approach

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

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Rough Guide to World Music: Hungary

Simon Broughton introduces the music of Hungary, a country of ten million people with a strong musical profile

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Soema Montenegro: “My music can’t be pinpointed or catalogued, I’m very experimental”

Soema Montenegro tells Silvia Rothlisberger about the ancestral connections and magical realism influencing her new album. “I’m not transmitting musical notes, but sensations,” she explains

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Olodum: A Beginner's Guide

Andy Cumming charts how a carnival group from Bahia took Afro-Brazilian culture to the likes of Paul Simon, Pet Shop Boys and Michael Jackson

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AMMAR 808

The musician Sofyann Ben Youssef, aka AMMAR 808, travelled to southern India for his latest rhythm fuelled project. Tim Cumming speaks to him about the experience

Best New Albums

Top of the World – June 2018

The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the June 2018 issue

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My World: Ben Edge

The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson

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Musicport Festival needs you!

Musicport Festival is in search for volunteers for its 2018 instalment, taking place October 19-21 at Whitby Pavilion, Whitby.

Best New Albums

The best new album releases from around the world (June 2020)

The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the June issue of Songlines, featuring Zoufris Maracas, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, Santrofi, Orkesta Mendoza, and more...