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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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Malkit Singh: rise and resilience of a bhangra icon
Ahead of a career-spanning WOMEX showcase, DJ Ritu catches up with Malkit Singh MBE to discuss his journey to becoming the best-selling bhangra artist of all-time and how he remains relevant
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Yiddishkeit Futures
The klezmer revival began in the US half a century ago. Musicians from marginalised communities delved deeper into klezmer’s European roots while adopting contemporary, open-minded approaches to play the music. Celeste Cantor-Stephens speaks to three musicians whose work carries on traditions of ‘klezmer’ in different ways, asking if the klezmer revival is experiencing a new wave, or whether that initial revival ever really stopped
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Artists to Look Out for at WOMAD 2024
Heading to WOMAD this year? The Malmesbury-set festival is back again on July 25-28 and there are plenty of artists in the line-up that we've featured in Songlines previously, as well as many that we really should.
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Q&A: Flock
As Flock release their second album, Flock II, we probe the group's creative process
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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
The Rough Guide to World Music
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
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New Regency Orchestra: Fiesta Time!
Since forming in 2021, New Regency Orchestra have ignited Latin big band fever in London. With a debut album now out, Izzy Felton speaks to the group’s founder Lex Blondin
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Roots Round-Up (David Brunelle, Jordan Wax, Pawlo Humeniuk and more)
Featuring new releases from Lara Wong and Melón Jiménez, Lily Talmers and more
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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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Field of Research: Eastern European Organ Music
Organist Gail Archer evaluates the influences, improvisations and ecclesiastical economy of Eastern Europe’s organ music
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The great musical genres of the 20th and 21st centuries
The music of the world has been constantly shaped by its wider contexts – from politics to economics and social movements. Here Chris Moss selects the most important genres to have been born across the last 100-plus years
