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What Next for Brazil?

Bolsonaro’s election win and incendiary rhetoric have brought uncertainty and division to the country. Alex Robinson reports from Salvador where its deeply rooted Afro-Brazilian culture is under fire

“Capturing the experiences of wildness, loss, queerness, love, and mystery” | Introducing... Dani Larkin

The Irish folk artist talks to Jane Coyle about how living on the Armagh-Monaghan border has shaped both her life and her songwriting

Re:INCARNATION - the spirit of Lagos youth comes to the UK

Izzy Felton speaks to the team behind a new Nigerian music-and-dance production aiming to showcase the energy of contemporary Lagos

Festival Pass: Taiwan World Music Festival

Simon Broughton previews a festival bringing the world to Taipei, and allowing its traditions, cuisine and Indigenous arts to shine in the process

Sawhney’s Immigrant songs to be released via Sony Music Masterworks

Songlines’ October 2019 cover star and last year’s winner of the magazine’s World Pioneer award, Nitin Sawhney, is set to release his new album, Immigrants, later this year via Sony Music Masterworks

Islandman Release EP and Prepare for UK Tour

The UK beckons for this Turkish electronic trio, whose new EP caps off a fine year.

Obituary: Rise Kagona (1960-2024)

The joyous, spiralling guitar playing of Rise Kagona helped to make the jit jive of the Bhundu Boys one of the glories of the 1980s world music boom.

All of these albums received a maximum of five stars when reviewed in the 2020 issues of Songlines. Featuring Sam Lee, Shirley Collins, Will Pound, Sam Sweeney, Hamish Napier, Trio Tekke, Rura, and many more

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The Rough Guide to World Music: Iran

Laudan Nooshin reports on the revival of Iranian classical music since 1979 and Simon Broughton takes the pulse of the folk and pop scenes

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Sevdalini's plaintive sevdah parables enchant at Swedish self-catering summit

Nostalgia and longing suffuse an impassioned night of bewitching Bosnian blues at Malmö's Viktoria Teatern

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My World: Ben Edge

The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson