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10 Essential Highlife Albums
Florence Adooni, Santrofi, Kay Slice, Ata Kak, Me & My Friends and Ireke select their favourite Ghanaian highlife releases
Florence Adooni, Santrofi, Kay Slice, Ata Kak, Me & My Friends and Ireke select their favourite Ghanaian highlife releases
Silvana Estrada, Buena Vista Social Club, Jorge Drexler, SONICO x Rovira, Essential 10 Highlife Releases, Charif Megarbane, Yiddish Glory, Constantinople, Cocanha and more
The Norwegian singer-songwriter shares the minimal, spooky and emotional beauty of five albums that have left a lasting impression on her own work
Jim Hickson on the London duo channelling Ethiopian tradition and contemporary cool into experimental pop gold
Erin Cobby talks to the duo defying French folk tropes with progressive Occitan song
'Through my music, with every note I play, I walk alongside the Iranian people'
Russell Higham visits Louisiana, home of the world-famous Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and Lafayette, where he finds a state proudly and positively celebrating its musical connections to the wider world
Silvana Estrada – In the house of Chavela Vargas – the Mexican singer on learning to sing through pain
Buena Vista Social Club – Thirty years on – unravelling why the album became such a cultural phenomenon
Jorge Drexler – The Uruguayan singer-songwriter on why he returned home for his latest album
SONICO – Why the Belgian ensemble are so crazy about tango innovator Eduardo Rovira
Charif Megarbane – Beginner's Guide to the Lebanese producer
Yiddish Glory – Another chapter in the project bringing wartime Jewish songs back to life
Vitor Araújo – Fireside Story from the Brazilian classical pianist
Mardi Gras Dispatch – A journey to Louisiana for the celebrations
Essential 10 Highlife – Ghanaian artists and highlife fans pick the essential releases
Al Di Meola’s My World – The guitarist opens up his musical world
'Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn' – Huw Marc Bennett explores the Welsh love song
Plus – Constantinople · La Muchacha · Cocanha · Horsehead Fiddle · Folk Album of the Year · Juni Habel · ZENA · Planet Ilunga · Eliza Carthy
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