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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

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The May 2026 issue of Songlines, featuring Silvana Estrada, is out now!

Silvana Estrada, Buena Vista Social Club, Jorge Drexler, SONICO x Rovira, Essential 10 Highlife Releases, Charif Megarbane, Yiddish Glory, Constantinople, Cocanha and more

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The 4 Corners and Centre of Juni Habel’s Universe

The Norwegian singer-songwriter shares the minimal, spooky and emotional beauty of five albums that have left a lasting impression on her own work

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Introducing ... ZENA

Jim Hickson on the London duo channelling Ethiopian tradition and contemporary cool into experimental pop gold

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Cocanha champion Occitan culture with ‘Flame Folclòre’

Erin Cobby talks to the duo defying French folk tropes with progressive Occitan song

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Spotlight: Constantinople

'Through my music, with every note I play, I walk alongside the Iranian people'

Features

Dispatch: Mardi Gras in Louisiana

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

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Songlines - May 2026

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Inside the issue…

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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