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Introducing... Balimaya Project

The 16-piece are reclaiming Mande tradition and helping to educate their communities. Jane Cornwell catches up with bandleader Yahael Camara Onono

Obituary: Maurice El Médioni (1928-2024)

A key artist in the development of Algerian chaabi and rai music, Maurice El Médioni, the boogie-woogie maestro, has passed away

Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck shines in Dublin

Béla Fleck & his band of stalwart musicians impress in Ireland's capital

Fatoumata Diawara: “We have created something, a fusion, a music that I would say is totally new”

Fatoumata Diawara adds collaboration to the mix on an album of reconciliation and largesse. “It’s time for me to invite you… into my world,” she tells Lucy Hallam

Balinese gamelan: a complete guide to a unique world of sound

The Indonesian island of Bali resounds with the vibrant, often thunderous music of its gamelans – the ubiquitous percussion orchestras of bronze and bamboo. Andy Channing conjures up the magic of its many incarnations

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Speaker's Corner: MacDara Yeates on Joe Mulheron

Macdara Yeates pays tribute to one of Belfast’s most beloved singers, songwriters and cultural agitators, known for his generosity as much as his radical politics

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Meeting Asha Puthli: “I have a four-octave range from my classical training and I just went for it, this spaced-out singing”

Undeterred by expectations, Asha Puthli had a vision of uniting Indian classical music with jazz, heading to New York and getting a job singing with a free-jazz icon. It was the beginning of an adventurous, incendiary and unparalleled career

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A world of jazz and beyond at Poland's Jazztopad

As jazz festivals around the world start to embrace international sounds, Martin Longley got to grips with the eclectic line-up of the Jazztopad festival in Wrocław

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Amália Rodrigues: A Beginner's Guide

Pleasure, pain and poetry – the ‘Queen of Fado’ gave Portugal its soundtrack during a turbulent 20th century. Chris Moss looks back over Amália’s career

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Blick Bassy: “This generation must defy imported culture and design their own role models and paths”

Daniel Brown speaks to Cameroonian musician and writer Blick Bassy about breaking the silence on France’s colonialist treatment towards his country’s independence heroes

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Orchestra Baobab: A Beginner's Guide

Garth Cartwright marvels at the long-lasting appeal of the Senegalese band

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Sarod | Musical Instrument Guide (with Soumik Datta)

Soumik Datta reveals to Simon Broughton the secrets of his innovative, go-faster sarod

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Al-Qasar interview: “We live in a world of very complex identities, with multinational families and lots of migration”

French-American musician and producer Thomas Attar Bellier talks about his sizzling new psych-rock unit who are fusing North African trance and Middle Eastern melodies with elements of alternative rock

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50 Great Moments in World Music

We've noted 50 great moments from 7000BC to the present day – concerts and confrontations, collaborations and conspiracies – all of which have shaped the sounds we're listening to today