This is quite the grab-bag of music reviews from North American artists, ranging from pop-leaning to super out-there experimental, but still all rooted in tradition
Featuring Wyn Oran, Innocent Hare, Tern, Hartwin and Lorraine Nash
Andrés Gualdrón delves into how African records, piracy and resistance shaped a Caribbean-Colombian sound
Serendipity brings to light a historic recording from Lágrima Ríos, one of few Afro-Latin singers to find fame in tango
Artists and labels from La Réunion select the albums that have helped this small, isolated island become a hotbed of musical creativity
Jane Cornwell discusses tango, travelling through music and climate activism with the English filmmaker who has lately turned singer-songwriter
Emma Rycroft talks to Alasdair Roberts, Màiri Morrison and Pete Johnston about a ballad that travelled from Scotland to Nova Scotia
The sun has finally arrived and the festival line-ups are coming in thick and fast, so here’s our guide to some of the best festivals showcasing global artists in the UK and around the world this summer
We check in with the Canadian singer-songwriter ahead of her first ever UK tour
Vincent Moon reveals a suite of ten films recorded in the contested independent state of Abkhazia, a sublime tropical land between Georgia and Russia
Utilising a panoply of pianos across the Yorkshire Dales and her grandfather’s reel-to-reel recorder, the lo-fi folk artist invites us to Come Into The Garden
Tensions are growing in Slovakia as the government takes culture under its control
The Belfast-based singer looks at the albums that formed his musical consciousness and remain integral to it
Over a hundred years since rebetiko arrived in Athens, one family of luthiers continue to build the instruments which defined the style
Guinea, Gnawa and gilded British beats collide in Marseille where a powerful new trio are arranging an amplified assault
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