Features
Khiyo: Bengali Tribute
Khiyo talk to Jo Frost about the impact of Bangladesh’s rich musical traditions and that country’s poetry on their long-awaited second album, Bondona
Search results for
Features
Experiencing Rencontres de Chants Polyphoniques de Calvi
Erin Cobby travels to Corsica to experience Rencontres de Chants Polyphoniques de Calvi, a festival that brings people together through its celebration of the human voice
Features
Gallery: The Ukrainians
Len Liggins, lead singer and fiddle player for The Ukrainians, shares photos and reminiscences from the band’s 40-year career. Photos courtesy of Len Liggins
Features
Anoushka Shankar’s most daring chapter yet: “I feel like I'm in my power”
Thirty years in, the sitarist is releasing one of the most daring albums of her career, and she’s doing it on her own terms. Russ Slater Johnson heralds a return to the light…
Features
Manu Chao's Clandestino appeared at the cross-fade of the millennium and sounded perfect – a radical masterpiece
Peter Culshaw reminisces on his time biographing the elusive Manu Chao as his classic solo album, Clandestino, is re-released 20 years on
Features
Eliza Carthy's News of the Whirl (April 2024)
Eliza contemplates what is gained, lost and remains the same as the UK looks to ratify its culture through UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
Features
Q&A: Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee
From Messiaen in a crypt to a queer Moby-Dick, Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee discuss creativity, friendship and their adventurous new duo album ahead of a London launch party
Features
Joe Boyd's New Book Reveals the West's Fascination with Music from Around the World
Decades in the making, the new book from influential US producer Joe Boyd is the definitive history of how non-Western music became popular across the world
Features
A guide to the music of Morocco's Jebala mountains
The Jebala mountains of northern Morocco are the source of many musical riches, with plenty of beguiling artists there to be discovered
Features
The Rough Guide to World Music: Bangladesh
One of the subcontinent’s richest and most fertile grounds for folk, film, devotional and classical music
The Rough Guide to World Music
The Music of Bangladesh: A Rough Guide
One of the subcontinent’s richest and most fertile grounds for folk, film, devotional and classical music
Features
Wu Man: Silk String Stories
Widely considered the world’s leading pipa player, Wu Man tells Simon Broughton about new works excavating the history of her beloved instrument
Features
The Rough Guide to World Music: Korea
The Korean musical identity can be traced to the fifth century, and has been well documented since the fifteenth century, as Rob Provine and Keith Howard reveal
Features
Nazar: “Angolans could take over the world of pop music if we truly wanted to”
Manchester-based producer Nazar looks back to his conflict-afflicted upbringing in Angola and picks out some audio plums from the debris
News
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
