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Festival Review: SQUARE aims for creativity and collaboration on Braga debut
For its debut festival, SQUARE takes artists, delegates and locals on a merry dance across four Portuguese cities
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Take Note: Chimano
The singer-songwriter talks to Erin Cobby about life and music after taking a break from Kenya’s biggest Afropop band
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“I’m an African woman in charge of how I express myself” | Juanita Euka
The charismatic Congolese singer, and niece of the late rumba king Franco, speaks with Jane Cornwell about her long-awaited solo debut, Mabanzo
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The 4 Corners and Centre of Nyboma’s Universe
The legend of Congolese rumba picks a selection of albums and songs that shaped him and continue to be his inspiration, decades into his highly influential career
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Jamaica
Jamaica is a serious contender for the title ‘loudest island in the world’. On any night, and especially at weekends, it shakes to the musical vibrations of thousands of sound systems
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Spotlight: Eric Bibb
Paul Slade speaks to the American bluesman about the joy of living away from the US and how he’s finally found the funk
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EMEL interview: “I’m not interested in that inherited feeling where women are rivals anymore”
EMEL’s latest album sees her work with a completely female team to make one of the most unapologetically forthright and adventurous albums of the year
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Introducing... Leenalchi
South Korean ensemble Leenalchi are wowing the world with their fresh, body-moving take on pansori. Christopher Conder hears all about it
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Llais 2024, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, October 12-13
Voices from Bulgaria, India and Ireland light up the latest edition of one of Wales’ most vocal festivals.
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Dispatch from: Naples, Italy
Ciro De Rosa drops by Auditorium Novecento in the heart of the old city, where Neapolitan popular music’s legacy continues to resonate
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The 4 Corners and Centre of Carlos Dafé’s Universe
A pivotal figure in the evolution of Black Brazilian music, the Rio-born soul singer talks through the works that have defined his sound
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Jamaica
Jamaica is a serious contender for the title ‘loudest island in the world’. On any night, and especially at weekends, it shakes to the musical vibrations of thousands of sound systems
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Walden Festival, Leopold Park, Belgium, July 16
Le Trio Joubran and Mari Kalkun enchant at this scenic Brussels festival, blessed with an open musical agenda
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The Best New Albums from Around the World (June 2023)
Tracks from Tuulikki Bartosik, Entoto Band, Samaïa, Adriana Calcanhotto and more...
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Lágrima Ríos: recovering the lost Paris sessions of an Afro-Latin tango icon
Serendipity brings to light a historic recording from Lágrima Ríos, one of few Afro-Latin singers to find fame in tango
