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Songlines Best Albums of 2017

Songlines’ editors Jo Frost and Simon Broughton select their favourite albums of 2017

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Víctor Jara: A Beginner's Guide

Nearly 50 years a¤er his death, Víctor Jara’s songs continue to inspire idealism across Latin America. Chris Moss recalls Chile’s pre-eminent protest singer

Daymé Arocena: “I am letting people see inside me with the music”

The young Cuban singer Daymé Arocena has had a rapid rise to fame. She tells Jane Cornwell about her journey so far and her tribute to Santería’s female orishas

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

Game For Laughs: YĪN YĪN Unleash 'Tokyo Disko' Single + Vid

Dutch doyens of exotic funk fusion preview the release of their latest album with offbeat quiz-time video romp

Le Vent du Nord: Beginner's Guide

Jo Frost takes a look at the impressive career of Le Vent du Nord, Québec’s finest musical ambassadors

The Best New Albums from Around the World (December 2024)

Featuring Justin Adams & Mauro Durante, Ekuka Morris Sirikiti, Afro Celt Sound System, MOMO. and more

“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

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