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Artists’ new collaboration is partly themed around the osprey and uses jagged notes, bluesy slippages and silences
Two previous albums which show the diversity of the trumpeter’s work make a welcome reappearance in full
The South African group offers a deconstructed punk twist on old township music using drums, whistles and vocals
The Haitian-Canadian singer on the inspirations for her latest album and stage project
The Mexican band widen their horizons with imagery from Ancient Egypt and the Hispanic old world
The mix of atonal improvisation and medievalism is scrumped from the same orchard as 1970s prog-folk
The Canadian singer explores her Haitian heritage, exploring the Vodou loas, US occupation and importance of hats
60 years after her first concerts, the singer’s latest album features pointedly chosen songs and starkly contemporary lyrics
Album remixes and reimagines prayers and poetry: a mixture of serious and profane, of mystical and celebratory
Fela’s son and his band are in strong form, the needle-point rhythm guitar propelling the music over the drumming
Touareg guitar music now belongs decidedly to a younger generation includes
Engaging and fun, this is an excellent advertisement for the music from Ghana’s north
Performances of prayers and spiritual music, with sumptuous orchestration from Kareem Roustom
Housing evictions and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rumble below the surface of the band’s ‘ShamStep’ soundscape
The acoustic blues trio bring the saz into the dense guitar work and the yaybahar which adds a rhythmic base
French percussionist Gérald Toto, Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona and Congolese guitarist Lokua Kanza reunite
Peter Bellamy’s folk opera is interrupted by a new song about war escapees in this 40th anniversary recording
A collection of instrumental songs mostly inspired by Ghedi’s home territory in North Yorkshire
A mixture of traditional carols, the artist’s own compositions and modern cover versions
A collection of all six albums from the band’s heyday, with music recorded by the individual members
Curated by Erykah Badu, the songs showcase Afrobeat at its most dynamic
From rolling comic social history to digs at the country’s Establishment
Collection employs xylophone twinkles, drums skirling in a military-sounding tattoo and a knotty math-rock riff
A contrast in styles at this all-Norwegian EFG London Jazz Festival concert
Folk melodies float on a bed of acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, sansula — and birdsong