It can be considered a miracle if and how little more than 500 thousand souls have been able to safeguard...
This month’s playlist is a bit different from the ones you’re used you to: no style or genre introduction. Instead, we...
Kenya is rich in musical history, from the much loved taarab through to caracha and more recently cumulating reggae and...
Rasin music is Haitian Vodou music (drums and bells forming traditional rhythms, accompanied by traditional lyrics sung in service to...
Apologies to anyone thinking this might be the case, but no, the original Ethio-jazz architect is not Mulatu Astatke. The...
Derived from the Afrikaans word ‘kwai’ literally translating to angry, kwaito is the heavy, house music pumping out of modern...
In 1970s New York salsa emerged, conquering the world in just a few decades. Caribbean migrants (mainly Puerto Rican, Dominican...
Originating in Ghana but with roots also placed firmly in Nigeria, Highlife music has had a major impact on modern...
It’s less than a month until the most exciting world music event of the British Summer: Womad UK 2016. To help...
Deriving from the French term, ‘secousse’ literally meaning ‘to shake’, Soukous music has a simple aim, to make the people...
This ticket is for a trip back in time, to the roots of one of the most popular upbeat music...
“Patchanka is the wild sound, for proud souls and lonely hounds”, this was the refrain of the patchanka’s style manifesto...