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Obituary: Hasan Saltık (1964-2021)

The founder of Turkey’s Kalan Müzik imprint remembered

Daymé Arocena: “I am letting people see inside me with the music”

The young Cuban singer Daymé Arocena has had a rapid rise to fame. She tells Jane Cornwell about her journey so far and her tribute to Santería’s female orishas

Rapa Nui: Keys to the Island

Charis McGowan visits Rapa Nui to find out how the arrival of the isolated island’s first piano led to a music school and a re-energised approach to learning about the island’s traditions

Cerys Hafana: “The sea is going up in flames, the angels are raining down from the heavens”

Cerys Hafana talks to Russ Slater about the uniqueness of her triple harp and its bridging of the historical, the profound and the personal

Video premiere: ‘Hada Jil’ by Aziza Brahim

The Saharawi singer moves into electronic sounds with her new video set in the desert

Watch: Classical meets Cuban son with Classico Latino

Classico Latino release new video of ‘Amor Verdadero’ featuring Omar Puente from their new album Havana Classic

Orquesta Akokán: “If you went to a music industry person with this idea, some marketing asshole in New York… forget it”

A new Cuban big band are making waves. All the more surprising for the fact that Orquesta Akokán are a collaboration of first-class Cuban and American musicians. Kim Burton tells their story so far

Sir David Attenborough reveals his musical inspirations

The legendary broadcaster revisits the sounds of his early career on a recent BBC programme that reveals a little-known side to the beloved naturalist – that of a world music collector. He shares his favourite tracks with producer Julian May

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Songlines Best Albums of 2017

Songlines’ editors Jo Frost and Simon Broughton select their favourite albums of 2017

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Meeting Muireann Bradley

Paul Slade speaks to a young Irish guitarist Muireann Bradley, who is infatuated with Reverend Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotten and John Fahey and whose debut album was one of the sleeper hits of 2023

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Rough Guide to World Music: Mali

Few African countries have contributed so many important artists to the World Music market: Salif Keita, Toumani Diabaté, Habib Koité, Kandia Kouyaté, Oumou Sangaré and the late Ali Farka Touré being but a few

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The Beatles in India

Nigel Williamson explores The Beatles and India, a new film lifting the lid on the Fab Four’s journey east and the impact that Indian music and culture had on the group’s own sound and legacy