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The Spirit of Tengri 2019 review

Jim Hickson visited the seventh edition of The Spirit of Tengri festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan to discover the wonderful - and the weird - of 'contemporary ethnic music.'

Introducing the April 2025 issue of Songlines, featuring Ichiko Aoba

Ichiko Aoba, Abel Selaocoe, Seu Jorge, Andy Irvine, Cambodian rap, the most anticipated albums of 2025, Gurdjieff Ensemble, Alabaster DePlume and much more

Roots Round-up (Eden Brent, Wyatt C Louis, Adeem the Artist and more)

A selection of essential releases from the US and Canada including new albums from Eden Brent, Wyatt C Louis and Adeem the Artist

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

Watch: Classical meets Cuban son with Classico Latino

Classico Latino release new video of ‘Amor Verdadero’ featuring Omar Puente from their new album Havana Classic

Introducing the January 2025 issue of Songlines, featuring our Review of 2024

Songlines Review of 2024 with the best albums and highlights of the year, plus Manu Chao, Arooj Aftab, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Xenia França, L Subramaniam, Topic Records and more

Kokoroko: riding high on the soulful grooves of Tuff Times Never Last

Andrew Taylor Dawson talks with the Londoners fusing Afrobeat, highlife, jazz and inner-city vibes

Quickfire: Linda Ayupuka

We speak to the Ghanaian Afro-gospel singer about the important albums in her life and a most memorable musical encounter

Watch: Bixiga 70's 'Quebra Cabeça'

Bixiga 70 return with a striking video for their new single 'Quebra Cabeça', the title-track from their upcoming album.

Video: Fatoumata Diawara’s ‘Nsera’

Fatoumata Diawara maps out a polemical journey home in the video for her latest single 'Nsera', a track taken from her much-anticipated forthcoming album

Essential 10 When Jazz Goes Latin Albums

Giant of Latin jazz, pianist Eddie Palmieri dismissed ‘jazz Latin’ as simply jazz with added congas. Here, Mark Sampson picks out some of his favourite Latin-flavoured recordings by jazz artists who dared to add that dancing drum

Features

Quickfire: Polly Bolton (The Trials of Cato)

Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and one third of boundary-crossing folk group The Trials of Cato talks turning points, top albums and clandestine synth strategies

Live reviews

WOMADelaide, Tainmuntilla, Mar 10-13

Sampa The Great, Bab L'Bluz, Cimafunk, KOKOROKO and Yung Chen Lhamo all played their part in one of the best WOMADelaide line-ups yet, with female solidarity the theme of the weekend