The ka drum holds the centre of gwo ka practice in Guadeloupe: one player leads, the circle answers, and the...
Interviews
During the power cuts that hit Kinshasa in the 2000s, kerosene sellers walked the streets with fuel for people’s storm...
Six years into Zenobia, Isam Elias needed another way to keep working. The practical reality of touring an electronic duo...
When James Allen travelled to Kenya with his in-laws for their 50th anniversary, he was not expecting to have his...
In 2021, Andrea Cota pressed record on a portable recorder somewhere on Lake Titicaca, among the floating reed islands of...
A few days before Başka Bahar / Another Spring came out, Umut Adan was speaking to us from Istanbul about...
Yeison Landero still plays cumbia in the same way he learnt it as a child in San Jacinto, a small...
Roberta Gulisano‘s songs begin in Sicilian dialect and in the daily life of a small town in the province of...
Alum Alu formed in Riga, Latvia in 2020, when borders slammed shut and movement gave way to whatever could be...
Estonian bagpipes looped through effects processors, layered over acid basslines generated by Roland TB-303 clones. That is the sound at...
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...