Essential 10
Malian Guitarists: The Essential 10
While guitarist Afel Bocoum steps out of Ali Farka Touré’s shadow and into the spotlight with his latest release Lindé, Nigel Williamson selects ten other excellent albums by Malian guitarists
While guitarist Afel Bocoum steps out of Ali Farka Touré’s shadow and into the spotlight with his latest release Lindé, Nigel Williamson selects ten other excellent albums by Malian guitarists
As their latest album attests, Nigerian duo The Cavemen are all about Love and Highlife. Erin Cobby speaks to the brothers about their rapid evolution to the top table
Malian singer Khaira Arby, known as the 'Nightingale of Timbuktu' died August 19. Andy Morgan pays tribute to her exceptional life and career.
Jim Hickson dives in, gets lost and just about stumbles out of the strange and intriguing world of the Boomtown festival
Embattled singer, Rokia Traoré, faces extradition hearing this Wednesday
Malian group Songhoy Blues have released a new video for their track, 'Worry', in the hope of spreading some positive vibes during these tumultuous times
Chris Moss talks to Tango Siempre’s Julian Rowlands about his chromatic ‘cuckoo clock’ and how he came to the bandoneón
Belgian trio Avalanche Kaito, led by Burkinabé griot Kaito Winse, have driven their post-punk assaults to combustible extremes on their latest album
Iconoclastic US folk duo announce their latest studio album alongside new single, ‘Empty Trainload of Sky’
Russ Slater Johnson hears from Garefowl’s Ewan Macdonald about his connections to the last British seabird made extinct and why he will soon be recording on the Scottish isle where the bird was killed
Les Amazones d’Afrique and Julian Marley are the first names announced for Africa Oyé, the UK's biggest live festival of African music and culture
The Afro Celt Sound System founder, initiator of The Imagined Village, record producer, composer, guitarist and birdsong enthusiast has passed away
Picture highlights from the 2018 Songlines Music Awards Ceremony
New albums from Hagai Bilitzky, Juni Habel, Bengt Berger, Moonlight Benjamin, Ali Farka Touré and Catriona Price
Moonlight Benjamin, the Songlines Music Awards 2020 nominees, Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela, London Bulgarian Choir, Juan Martín and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
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