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The Breath return to air new album and concert details
Manchester-based duo herald forthcoming long-player, Land of My Other, with preview track ‘Don’t Rush It’ and October live shows disclosure
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Joe Boyd's New Book Reveals the West's Fascination with Music from Around the World
Decades in the making, the new book from influential US producer Joe Boyd is the definitive history of how non-Western music became popular across the world
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Angélique Kidjo interview: “I wanted to be a ghost”
From Adam and Eve to empowering women across the world – there’s not much that Angélique Kidjo doesn’t have an opinion about. Jane Cornwell meets to the irrepressible singer
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Korea
The Korean musical identity can be traced to the fifth century, and has been well documented since the fifteenth century, as Rob Provine and Keith Howard reveal
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“Let the world know we are ready” | Gonora Sounds
Nigel Williamson speaks to the Zimbabwean family band’s guitar maestro-in-chief, Daniel Gonora, about his first international release
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Nazar: “Angolans could take over the world of pop music if we truly wanted to”
Manchester-based producer Nazar looks back to his conflict-afflicted upbringing in Angola and picks out some audio plums from the debris
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Bangladesh
One of the subcontinent’s richest and most fertile grounds for folk, film, devotional and classical music
The Rough Guide to World Music
The Music of Bangladesh: A Rough Guide
One of the subcontinent’s richest and most fertile grounds for folk, film, devotional and classical music
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Cimafunk interview: “You must never forget where you come from”
Jane Cornwell catches up with Cimafunk, the Cuban sensation taking the world by storm
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LASS interview: “It’s a cry from the heart to all young Africans that the future belongs to us”
The West African singer provides the inside track on prosperous musical encounters and the circuitous birth of his long-awaited debut album
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Zoë Modiga interview: South Africa’s new voice on language, identity and #BLM
A deft exploration of identity, Zoë Modiga’s latest album proves the South African is on the up. She speaks with Jane Cornwell about topics ranging from Black Lives Matter to the cultural importance of cattle in African society
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Songlines Presents... The Music of West Africa digital sampler
Take an exclusive look inside our special collector's edition on West African music
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The 4 Corners and Centre of Meridian Brothers’ Universe
Eblis Álvarez, the mastermind behind Colombia’s tropical revivalists Meridian Brothers chooses the albums that shaped him
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Playlist: Women of Hip-Hop
Spanning from Senegal to Guatemala, Libya to London, this global roster of female MCs continues in the footsteps of legends like MC Lyte and Lauryn Hill, helping to redefine women’s role in hip-hop.
