Thursday, October 31, 2024
50 Global Guitar Greats
50 guitarists who have made an impact outside of the usual rock’n’roll axis of axes
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
Seckou Keita: “My mum and aunties were griot singers… there was no escaping it!”
After the pandemic forced Seckou Keita to think about concepts of home, he responded with his most adventurous album to date
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Mdou Moctar: Niger's desert rock resistance
Mdou Moctar has had a great year, with a new album and worldwide tour positioning him as a new breed of African guitar hero… but he’s not alone. Bombino and Etran de l’Aïr are two other electric guitar-heavy bands who are establishing Niger as the capital of ‘desert rock’
Thursday, October 31, 2024
A Conversation with Christy Moore: “These nights I feel like I’m just starting. I’ve never had such large and responsive audiences”
Emma Rycroft speaks to one of Ireland’s most influential folk singers, Christy Moore, about protest songs, family and why he still loves performing
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Gaelynn Lea: “If a venue doesn’t have a ramp for the stage, I’m playing on the floor”
Ian Brennan speaks to Gaelynn Lea, a musician and disability advocate from America’s heartland, about her 21st-century folk music
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Marc Ribot: A Beginner's Guide
The US guitarist talks to Daniel Spicer about his artificially enhanced Cuban troupe, learning under Haiti’s Frantz Casseus, playing to Susana Baca’s dance moves and why he prefers Caetano Veloso on record
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Essential 10 When Jazz Goes Latin Albums
Giant of Latin jazz, pianist Eddie Palmieri dismissed ‘jazz Latin’ as simply jazz with added congas. Here, Mark Sampson picks out some of his favourite Latin-flavoured recordings by jazz artists who dared to add that dancing drum
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Manu Chao Acoustic: Return of the Vanishing Man
Manu Chao makes a triumphant London comeback with a manic acoustic performance at Brixton 02 Academy
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Making Tracks at London’s Grand Junction
Global musicians unite at London’s Grand Junction on October 3 for a night of impromptu artistic alliances
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Chromesthesia: the Colour of Sound
Acclaimed British-Egyptian academic Dr Hannah Elsisi discusses an ambitious new project surveying the sonic and sensory rituals surrounding African migration
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Introducing... ganavya
Erin Cobby speaks to the singer and multi-instrumentalist influenced by ancient Hindu fables, community spirit and the philosophy of Alice Coltrane
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Festival reviews - Tlalli & ¡Globalquerque!
Catalina Maria Johnson visits festivals in the US and Canada bringing global and ancestral music to a new audience
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Take Note: MOMO.
The nomadic Brazilian has taken inspiration from his daughter and current headquarters in London to make the most percussive album of his career. “I privileged the spontaneity of the grooves,” he tells Mark Sampson
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Book Preview: Athos: Echoes from the Holy Mountain
A new multimedia project explores the traditions and music of the monastic residents of Mount Athos in Greece, where little has changed over centuries
Thursday, October 31, 2024
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
