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Global Ambient Music: 10 Essential Albums
Chris Wheatley picks out some of the world’s finest ambient soundscapes
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Levellers: A Beginner's Guide
For over 30 years, the anarcho-folk collective have succeeded by doing things their own way. Chris Wheatley finds out about their grassroots rise to fandom and their enduring popularity
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Gillian Welch And Dave Rawlings Return To Roots With Woodland
Iconoclastic US folk duo announce their latest studio album alongside new single, ‘Empty Trainload of Sky’
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Seun Kuti: “Love for me is a force that can change the world” + Video Premiere
With a new album ready, his first in six years and one featuring an all-star cast – Damien Marley, Sampa The Great, Lenny Kravitz – Seun hopes to make a breakthrough: “Reaching the people without the mainstream is not easy,” he tells Jane Cornwell
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Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvaer review – London, Jazz Café, July 25
Jamaican duo Sly & Robbie team up with Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer for yet another productive and intriguing musical partnership.
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Video: Baaba Maal’s ‘Agreement’
Senegalese superstar returns with his first album in seven years and today releases a brand new video for one of the record’s standout tracks
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A Conversation with Pedro Ben: “The idea was to put Mozambican music on the map, to show that it existed”
Fifty years on from Mozambique’s independence, one of the country’s leading singers tells the story of a legendary album. Richard Gray finds out about making music in a free Mozambique…
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El Gato Negro Unleashes His Inner Tiger
French singer lets the cat out of the bag about his forthcoming full-length release, Tigre Qui Pleure
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Lady Maisery
The English folk trio Lady Maisery are known for their gorgeous harmonies and for blurring the space between tradition and innovation
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Sir David Attenborough in the December issue of Songlines Magazine
The nation's favourite natural scientist discusses his recently-rediscovered musical field recordings from 1954-63 in the latest issue of Songlines Magazine
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Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids to release new album ‘Afro Futuristic Dreams’ in September
Cosmic jazz collective release first single, a 13-minute journey through spiritual jazz, Afrobeat and choral music, from upcoming new album
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Cumbia Legends Manzanita y Su Conjunto Embark on Their First UK Tour
The legendary group who paved the way for Peruvian cumbia in the 1960s have set off on their month long tour of the UK this week
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Obituary: Rise Kagona (1960-2024)
The joyous, spiralling guitar playing of Rise Kagona helped to make the jit jive of the Bhundu Boys one of the glories of the 1980s world music boom.
Live reviews
Tales of bloody murder and trans-Carpathian travails captivate at Ethno Port
Mateusz Dobrowolski dives into the international programme on offer at the risk-taking Poznań festival
Live reviews
The Sharon Shannon Trio at Cottingham Civic Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, Feb 10, 2023
Irish accordionist teams up with acoustic strings duo to put the squeeze on gamut of folk styles
