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  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Angélique Kidjo and Ibrahim Maalouf: Queen of Sheba — a musical battle of wits

    The singer and trumpeter have constructed a concept album around King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
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    A rich performance was bolstered by abundant musicians, dancers and audience members summoned to the stage

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
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    Joan Shelley: The Spur — songs of isolation and retreat

    The American musician has a singular vision as she returns with songs that reflect on lockdown and confinement

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
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    Singer Arooj Aftab: ‘I’m a digger — I like old recordings and old texts’

    Ahead of playing Glastonbury, the Pakistani musician talks about the deep roots of her hit album ‘Vulture Prince’

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    The widely covered song set the template for the singer’s output for the next decade

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
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    Cimarrón: La Recia — Colombian joropo music with a feminist twist

    The band returns as leader Ana Veydó celebrates women with gutsy, trilling singing

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
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    Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré returns to his roots in Les Racines

    The musician’s new album pays tribute to his father, a pioneer of desert blues

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    Congotronics International: Where’s the One? — magnificent chaos

    This collaborative album features recordings from a 2011 tour involving Congolese and western bands

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    Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita: Echo — Welsh harp meets Senegalese kora

    The duo reunite for their third album, supported by a string section

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
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    The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar evoke rituals in Dancing Under the Moon

    Wailing rhaitas meet edgy percussion as the Moroccan group draw on old musical traditions

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
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    Leyla McCalla: Breaking The Thermometer — an album of Haitian history and rhythms

    The singer weaves together traditional songs, her own compositions, interviews and radio broadcasts

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
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    Jasdeep Singh Degun modernises Indian classical music on Anomaly

    The British sitarist’s debut album audaciously mixes styles from the subcontinent

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
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    Oumou Sangaré celebrates regional and national pride in Timbuktu

    The Malian singer returns with sounds and themes deeply rooted in her country

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
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    San Francisco — Maxime le Forestier’s 1972 song became an anthem in France

    The singer set down his memories of the city in a track that has since been adapted for new audiences

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Jon Balke and Siwan’s Hafla captures love in 11th-century Al-Andalus

    The collective’s new album centres largely on poetry by an Umayyad princess and her lover

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
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    Pat Matshikiza and Kippie Moeketsi: Tshona! — a reissued masterpiece

    The 1975 album captures a collaboration between a South African jazz legend and an under-celebrated pianist

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
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    Beeswing — Richard Thompson’s song was inspired by two very free spirits

    The singer’s 1994 ballad — one of the highlights of his songbook — has sparked some fascinating cover versions

  • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
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    Ubunye exploit the great glories of Zulu harmony singing

    Keyboardist Dave Evans and singer Xolani Mbatha collaborate with others on a varied album

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
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    África Negra: Antologia Vol. 1 — riotous delights from São Tomé and Principe

    A collection of recordings from the island nation stretching from 1981 to 1996

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
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    El Khat make joyful clatter on Albat Alawi Op. 99

    Eyal El Wahab’s band continue their use of recycled materials as instruments in a new album of original compositions

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
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    Fatoumata Diawara: Maliba — songs inspired by the manuscripts of Timbuktu

    The Malian singer’s digital album forms the soundtrack to a Google Arts and Culture project

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
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    Soul Revivers’ On the Grove explores reggae links between London and Kingston

    This collaborative project from Nick Manasseh and David Hill brings UK and Jamaican musicians into rhythmic dialogue

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
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    Hurray for the Riff Raff croon, wail and wallow in Life on Earth

    The band’s new album both embraces and retreats from politics, with themes ranging from the natural world to detention camps

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
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    Grooving tribute from The Ano Nobo Quartet in The Strings Of São Domingos

    The sweet, fluid album celebrates a legend from Cape Verde

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
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    Rokia Koné and Jacknife Lee salute the ancient empires of Mali in Bamanan

    This collaboration between the Irish producer and Malian singer references epic poetry and fabled heroes

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