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Festival: Tropical Pressure
Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Porthtowan, July 10–13
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Liverpool all-female collective welcome Mr Bongo
Liverpool’s all-female nightlife collective SisBis have announced a seminal event headlined by Brighton’s Mr Bongo.
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Chris Ta’aloga Faiumu (1968–2025)
Founder of New Zealand band Fat Freddy’s Drop has passed away
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Label of Love: Rockadillo Records
Chris Wheatley delves into a label promoting the sounds of the Finnish underground
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Chromesthesia: the Colour of Sound
Acclaimed British-Egyptian academic Dr Hannah Elsisi discusses an ambitious new project surveying the sonic and sensory rituals surrounding African migration
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Exploring Malta's Resurgent Local Music Scene
In the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta sits between the European and Islamic worlds. That dual heritage is reflected in its Indigenous music, reports Simon Broughton, and it deserves to be better known
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Digging and Listening: A South African Perspective
South African researcher and DJ Atiyyah Khan unpacks the significance and difficulty of accessing and archiving music in Africa
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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
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Gallery – Songlines Music Awards 2018
Picture highlights from the 2018 Songlines Music Awards Ceremony
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The tower of Babel Med falls
"I sincerely hope that Babel Med – or some equivalent – will return in 2019"
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Liraz interview: “I refuse to be silenced like women in Iran, who see my videos and tell me ‘Thank you!’”
The Israeli-Iranian singer and actress Liraz talks to Jane Cornwell about rediscovering her Iranian roots, singing in Persian and the risks taken to fulfil her desire to record with fellow Iranian musicians
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WOMEX Coming to Manchester
WOMEX have announced that their 2024 edition will be turning Manchester into a haven of world music next October
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The Gurdjieff Ensemble's Sacred Movements
As Armenia’s The Gurdjieff Ensemble make their first visit to the UK for Songlines Encounters Festival, Simon Broughton talks to the group’s director about the enigmatic composer and mystic who inspired the ensemble
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Listen: Warsaw Village Band - 'What Have You Been Doing Kasia (El Búho remix)'
Get an exclusive first listen to tropical beat-maker El Búho's latest remix, taken from his forthcoming album Tributaries
