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Dispatch from Puducherry, India
Daniel Spicer heads to the Bay of Bengal in search of Carnatic music’s “true voice of the Indian soul”
Daniel Spicer heads to the Bay of Bengal in search of Carnatic music’s “true voice of the Indian soul”
Erin Cobby traces the roots of a new UK dub track back to Mississippi penitentiaries, Civil Rights movements and outlaw country ballads
Trailblazing Finnish violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto talks to musician Merlyn Driver about folk song, family, ‘The Lark Ascending’ and his surprise appearance on Countryfile
Leeds-based fiddle-player and composer talks about his work with Anglo-Irish trio The Weaving, post-rock, obsessing over ‘the Boss’ and the intangibility of instrumental music
Ghanaian guitarist and bandleader who fused traditional highlife with funk and Afrobeat in the 1970s, then found global recognition decades later and continued to be a tour de force
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to a classically trained pianist whose music is faster, louder and more transcendent than anything else out there
Erin Cobby picks out ten tales of takedowns, betrayal and settling scores
Steve Martin & Alison Brown – The bluegrass friendship that keeps on giving
Yasmine Hamdan – Lebanese artist prepares for tour following her acclaimed album
Imarhan – Algerian desert rockers on pushing their soul to its limits
Slow J & Dino d'Santiago – Portuguese stars explore fado's African roots
Bebel Gilberto – The making of electro-bossa classic Tanto Tempo
Mighty Sparrow – Calypso legend gets the Beginner's Guide treatment
Lubomyr Melnyk – Ukrainian pianist on his transcendent piano style
Yousuf Nassem – Preserving Kashmir's Dard-Shin oral traditions
AI in Music – The ethics, legalities and potential creativity
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