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Playlist: One World Duets
A Songlines playlist for Apple Music, with range of Western artists coming together with world music's brightest to create an exciting variety of new sounds.
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Playlist: One World Duets
A Songlines playlist for Apple Music, with range of Western artists coming together with world music's brightest to create an exciting variety of new sounds.
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Review: WOMAD 2018 – Saturday
Superb female vocalists and ceilidh-style dancing were the highlights of Saturday's WOMAD line-up
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Terry Riley interview: “Every decade of my life has had a different focus”
The pioneering minimalist composer talks about the Indian music that captured his imagination and his tutelage under Pandit Pran Nath
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Cambridge Folk Festival 2024: First Names Revealed
Robert Plant’s Saving Grace and an exclusive Transatlantic Sessions showcase among the early highlights for this summer’s iteration of the celebrated music summit, which marks its 60th anniversary this year
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Best Albums 2020: Americas
All of these albums received a maximum of five stars when reviewed in the 2020 issues of Songlines. Featuring Sam Amidon, DJ Dolores, Roberto Fonseca, Ibrahim Ferrer, Leela Gilday, Lido Pimienta and many more
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Dispatch From Belo Horizonte, Brazil
A vibrant arts and hip-hop scene is happening in the Minas Gerais city. Songlines spoke to those who have been instrumental in its boom
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Songlines #160 (August/September 2020) is out now!
Kurdish singer talks about living in exile and her former life in Turkey, we share our favourite festival memories in support of live music, a Beginner's Guide to Rajery and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
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Listen to ‘Ayoka’, the first single from Dobet Gnahoré’s upcoming new album
Dobet Gnahoré unveils her 2024 album, Zouzou, with an upbeat Afropop gem
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Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) release single ahead of WOMAD
Brotherhood is the key for the first single from the Surinamese siblings’ new album
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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Songlines #154 (January/February 2020) is now on sale!
The music industry’s response to the climate crisis, Colombian harp stars, a look back over 2019 and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
Artists
Julie Fowlis
Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis is Gaelic music's brightest star
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Nitin Sawhney interview: “Beyond Skin was about the paradox of how we perceive nationality and religion”
The composer, producer and musical polymath Nitin Sawhney is revisiting his acclaimed Beyond Skin album 20 years after its release. He talks politics and music with Nigel Williamson
