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How Astor Piazzolla transformed tango
Chris Moss assesses the intrepid composer’s impact on music – and why his legacy, 100 years on since the great man’s birth, remains a challenge for contemporary tangueros
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How to hope in an empty city: Joseph Tawadros
Join oud maestro Joseph Tawadros behind the scenes during the recording sessions for his forthcoming new full-length, Hope in an Empty City
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How The Watersons recorded a landmark in English folk music
In a bedroom in Camden, one Sunday in January 1965, The Watersons recorded a landmark in English folk music whose reenactment of ritual and magic still sounds thrilling 60 years later
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How Glastonbury is rethinking Indigenous and traditional music
Erin Cobby reports from this year’s Glastonbury Festival, where programmers are working to integrate diverse global voices into the line-up
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How Totó La Momposina became the Queen of Cumbia
Totó La Momposina reflects on her journey from a small Colombian village to the international stage
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How Wesli is rewriting tradition by combining ancient and modern sounds
Philip Sweeney traces Wesli’s journey from the slums of Haiti through Cuba, Canada and Paris in search of an alternative Haitian music that is neither pop nor traditional
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Welcome to Brazylia: how Polish music took root in southern Brazil
Magda Tejchma reports from Brazil where she finds Polish immigrants and their descendants playing the polkas, waltzes and obereks of their ancestors, deep in the Brazilian hinterlands. Photos by Piotr Baczewski
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Fireside Stories: how a Harlesden record shop helped create a reggae classic
Cleon Roberts remembers the story of a soulful reggae hit that went head-to-head with Madonna in the charts
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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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“How am I going to be a legend?”: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at 50
Rossella Pinto, one of the original members of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, and her son Mauro Durante, their current bandleader, reflect on the group’s 50-year history of preserving and promoting the popular pizzica music of southern Italy
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Sahra Halgan interview: “I want to show the world how strong our country’s women are”
On returning to her native Somaliland, Sahra Halgan reflects on a voyage of struggle, activism and discovery, marked by a chance encounter with an unlikely French musical family and a drive for positive change
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The Joy: “You can hear how we poured our hearts into the songs”
The Joy started their a capella singing in a small classroom in rural South Africa; now they’re set to release their eponymous full-length album
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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
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How Iberi's new album was inspired by the food, wine and glorious musical harmonies of Georgia
The Georgian male vocal group Iberi celebrate the country’s predilection for feasting with their new album. Simon Broughton gets a taste from the choir’s leader Buba Murgulia
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Gilberto Gil: “We wanted to question how Brazilian society was constituted – the ethnic make-up of Brazil”
Gilberto Gil speaks to Alex Robinson about the 60s tropicália movement and how he has tried to bridge the gaps in Brazil’s class-ridden society
