Estonian bagpipes looped through effects processors, layered over acid basslines generated by Roland TB-303 clones. That is the sound at...
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What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow carries a time-shifting pull, placing traditional bluegrass back in the hands of...
Ciranda Elétrica lands at Brixtonia Lounge on Saturday 22 November, turning 35 Brixton Station Road into a North Brazilian and...
Nusantara Beat didn’t form around a manifesto. It began with a shared sense of curiosity: six musicians in Amsterdam reaching...
Being used to seeing João Selva with the usual traces of touring life, we noticed straight away that WOMEX in...
In a sure tonic for the winter blues Oumou Sangaré graces the stage of The Queen Elizabeth Hall this November...
Twenty years on, it feels right to call Movimientos family. What began in 2005 as a small gathering of friends...
November in Riga arrives with that cold, blue light that hangs low over the Daugava. You walk through the centre,...
WOMEX opens tonight, and our Musical Road to WOMEX 2025 reaches its final stop: the city hosting it all. After...
With WOMEX opening just one day away, our Musical Road to WOMEX reaches Finland: its far north, where voice, silence,...
With WOMEX opening in just two days in Tampere, our Musical Road to WOMEX 2025 closes in both time and...
With WOMEX 2025 only days away, our Musical Road to WOMEX reaches one of its very last stops… And we’re...
Seven months after releasing their debut Ghoyoum, Toronto’s Kazdoura arrive at Oslo Hackney on Sunday 19 October with momentum built...
Bristol’s riotous seven-piece Ushti Baba return this weekend with the launch of their new album Flora, Fauna, Fight & Feast,...
With WOMEX just a week away, the sixth chapter of our Musical Road to WOMEX heads to Taranto with Yarákä,...
From 31 October to 2 November, East London’s Rich Mix hosts Vaak Festival, a three-day platform for contemporary art and...
With just two weeks to go until WOMEX opens in Tampere, our Musical Road series heads to Los Angeles to...
Event Preview: Cerys Hafana + Astra Forward @ St Matthias Church (London; Sunday, 12th October 2025)
On Sunday 12 October, St Matthias Church in Stoke Newington opens its Gothic arches to a very different kind of...
On Saturday 11 October, the garden of Fox & Firkin in Lewisham becomes a rallying ground for sound and solidarity....
Populous conjures landscapes from sound. That instinct was already present in Quipo (2002), the debut by Lecce-born producer Andrea Mangia...
