When rock and electronic sounds reinvigorate (Fuel) an already hot-blooded and passionate style like flamenco (Fandango), the outcome can only...
Interviews
“When you decide what you play you also decide what kind of life you lead.” Hélène Labarrière N’Diale is...
We’re backstage at WOMAD 2016 drinking mint tea with Kel Assouf, a group of musicians who describe themselves as playing...
The Grit Orchestra was an unusual treat for the WOMAD 2016 audience on the Open Air stage on Friday afternoon....
If baile funk has invaded Europe and become a thing on the Old Continent too, you need to look at...
I recently spoke via email with Franketienne about Haitian music through an intermediary, his wife Marie-Andree. Franketienne is Haiti’s greatest...
On 13th June Italy played its first match of the European Championship 2016 against Belgium. The football was the perfect...
One of the most exciting names on the UK music scene is also one of its most indefinable and difficult...
How does one successfully blend the sounds and instruments of several cultures in order to produce something new? It’s a...
Uganda, in east Africa, is also known as ‘The Pearl of Africa’. The three day Nyege Nyege festival, this year...
Please don’t call him the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the accordion’ and don’t try to associate his name with the one...
The South-Korean music scene is much more lively and diverse than one might think. There is much more to it...