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World Music Matters - Electric Vocuhila: the French quartet with taste, and talent, for African rhythms from 2020-09-18T19:26:03
Electric Vocuhila combine the spirit of free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman with driving urban guitar rhythms like tsapiky from Madagascar or Congolese sebene. They masterfully sew them together ...
Electric Vocuhila: the French quartet with taste, and talent, for African rhythms from 2020-09-18T19:26:03
Electric Vocuhila combine the spirit of free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman with driving urban guitar rhythms like tsapiky from Madagascar or Congolese sebene. They masterfully sew them together ...
World Music Matters - Cult 1984 album 'Sons of Ethiopia' enchants new audiences in 2020 from 2020-09-08T15:58:19
Admas, a quartet of young Ethiopian musicians living in exile in Washington DC, had a ball recording an album of synth-heavy, funked up versions of Ethiopian classics. 'Sons of Ethiopia ' was ...
Cult 1984 album 'Sons of Ethiopia' enchants new audiences in 2020 from 2020-09-08T15:58:19
Admas, a quartet of young Ethiopian musicians living in exile in Washington DC, had a ball recording an album of synth-heavy, funked up versions of Ethiopian classics. 'Sons of Ethiopia ' was ...
World Music Matters - Ennio Morricone: a tribute to the late maestro from 2020-07-11T09:36:01
Italian composer Ennio Morricone was famed for his film scores but his work straddled jazz, pop, psychedelia as well as the avant-garde, influencing bands as diverse as Air and Metallica.
Ennio Morricone: a tribute to the late maestro from 2020-07-11T09:36:01
Italian composer Ennio Morricone was famed for his film scores but his work straddled jazz, pop, psychedelia as well as the avant-garde, influencing bands as diverse as Air and Metallica.
World Music Matters - Hachalu Hundessa: the Oromo singer who helped transform politics in Ethiopia from 2020-07-04T01:44:28
"Everyday I walk in this city, I know I walk alongside death," singer Hachalu Hundessa said just days before he was shot dead in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on 28 June. We hear how the 3...
Hachalu Hundessa: the Oromo singer who helped transform politics in Ethiopia from 2020-07-04T01:44:28
"Everyday I walk in this city, I know I walk alongside death," singer Hachalu Hundessa said just days before he was shot dead in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on 28 June. We hear how the 3...
World Music Matters - 'Black Lives Matter', and songs are showing it's a fact from 2020-06-26T21:54:33
Inspiring speeches are great, but a song can travel and connect people like nothing else. After the tragic death of George Floyd, musicians are helping to bring issues of police violence and s...
'Black Lives Matter', and songs are showing it's a fact from 2020-06-26T21:54:33
Inspiring speeches are great, but a song can travel and connect people like nothing else. After the tragic death of George Floyd, musicians are helping to bring issues of police violence and s...
World Music Matters - Ariana Vafadari breathes life into Anahita, Persian goddess of water from 2020-06-19T18:12:04
After exploring Zoroastrian chants on her 2016 album “Gathas, songs my father taught me”, mezzo soprano Ariana Vafadari puts femininity to the fore with the heart-wrenching “Anahita”, inspired...
Ariana Vafadari breathes life into Anahita, Persian goddess of water from 2020-06-19T18:12:04
After exploring Zoroastrian chants on her 2016 album “Gathas, songs my father taught me”, mezzo soprano Ariana Vafadari puts femininity to the fore with the heart-wrenching “Anahita”, inspired...
World Music Matters - The Eddy: a love letter to jazz in modern, multicultural Paris from 2020-06-12T18:07:37
There are big names in The Eddy, a Netflix series about a struggling jazz club in Paris. But the real star is jazz. And since coronavirus is depriving us of the thrill of live music, the jazz ...
The Eddy: a love letter to jazz in modern, multicultural Paris from 2020-06-12T18:07:37
There are big names in The Eddy, a Netflix series about a struggling jazz club in Paris. But the real star is jazz. And since coronavirus is depriving us of the thrill of live music, the jazz ...
World Music Matters - Mugogo!: electronic music from the coast of Kenya from 2020-06-06T12:26:54
When Swiss beatmaker FlexFab was doing a set in the coastal town of Kilifi, Kenya, a young Kenyan rapper Ziller Bas grabbed the mike and delivered his "Swengflow". The chemistry was immediate ...
Mugogo!: electronic music from the coast of Kenya from 2020-06-06T12:26:54
When Swiss beatmaker FlexFab was doing a set in the coastal town of Kilifi, Kenya, a young Kenyan rapper Ziller Bas grabbed the mike and delivered his "Swengflow". The chemistry was immediate ...
World Music Matters - Touki: how West Africa's kora found kindred spirit in the banjo from 2020-05-31T12:43:53
When musicians Amadou Diagne and Cory Seznec had a chance encounter in a bar in Bath in 2007, they knew one day they would record together. Thirteen years later, after many "touki" (journeys),...
Touki: how West Africa's kora found kindred spirit in the banjo from 2020-05-31T12:43:53
When musicians Amadou Diagne and Cory Seznec had a chance encounter in a bar in Bath in 2007, they knew one day they would record together. Thirteen years later, after many "touki" (journeys),...
World Music Matters - Chadian band Pulo NDJ creates sounds out of its Lomé lockdown from 2020-05-22T13:16:12
When N'Djamena-based electro band Pulo NDJ found themselves stranded in Abuja with no chance of returning to Chad because of the coronavirus, they made their way to Lomé, set up a home studio ...
Chadian band Pulo NDJ creates sounds out of its Lomé lockdown from 2020-05-22T13:16:12
When N'Djamena-based electro band Pulo NDJ found themselves stranded in Abuja with no chance of returning to Chad because of the coronavirus, they made their way to Lomé, set up a home studio ...
World Music Matters - Djibouti's Groupe RTD make international 'Dancing Devils' album debut from 2020-05-18T13:14:03
Djibouti is better known as a strategic outpost than a hotbed of music but Groupe RTD, the country's national radio band, are one of its best kept secrets. By day they play at official ceremon...
Djibouti's Groupe RTD make international 'Dancing Devils' album debut from 2020-05-18T13:14:03
Djibouti is better known as a strategic outpost than a hotbed of music but Groupe RTD, the country's national radio band, are one of its best kept secrets. By day they play at official ceremon...
World Music Matters - Sarah McCoy sings, and lives, the blues from 2020-03-17T17:32:10
Sarah McCoy is undoubtedly one of the most exuberant and talented singer-songwriters around, unafraid to bear her heart and soul in her music. "Honesty is important," says the 35-year old Amer...
Sarah McCoy sings, and lives, the blues from 2020-03-17T17:32:10
Sarah McCoy is undoubtedly one of the most exuberant and talented singer-songwriters around, unafraid to bear her heart and soul in her music. "Honesty is important," says the 35-year old Amer...
World Music Matters - Olgha Nk: a strong voice lamenting the pain of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis from 2020-03-05T22:45:43
Olga "Olgha" Nkweti is a singer-songwriter from the English-speaking part of Cameroon. She began singing professionally aged just 17 and has made a name crafting covers of popular songs into P...
Olgha Nk: a strong voice lamenting the pain of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis from 2020-03-05T22:45:43
Olga "Olgha" Nkweti is a singer-songwriter from the English-speaking part of Cameroon. She began singing professionally aged just 17 and has made a name crafting covers of popular songs into P...
Seb el Zin: hardcore with a soft centre from 2020-02-29T22:33:23
Seb el Zin founded the surrealist rock band Ithak in 2005 and it somehow manages to straddle hardcore, metal, psychedelia and traditional Turkish music with equal ease. He talks to us about wh...
World Music Matters - Seb el Zin: hardcore with a soft centre from 2020-02-29T22:33:23
Seb el Zin founded the surrealist rock band Ithak in 2005 and it somehow manages to straddle hardcore, metal, psychedelia and traditional Turkish music with equal ease. He talks to us about wh...
Piers Faccini: the organic farmer of the music world from 2020-02-07T22:47:31
Singer-songwriter Piers Faccini's latest opus is a four-track EP Hear My Voice. And what an original voice it is. He chats to us about his artisan approach to making nourishing music, doing it...
World Music Matters - Piers Faccini: the organic farmer of the music world from 2020-02-07T22:47:31
Singer-songwriter Piers Faccini's latest opus is a four-track EP Hear My Voice. And what an original voice it is. He chats to us about his artisan approach to making nourishing music, doing it...
The many voices, and opinions, of ALA.NI from 2020-01-24T19:35:24
"Some tracks have 300 different layers of vocals and most of them are me," says Ala.ni about her new album Acca. The London-born, Paris-based singer with a rare four-octave range beguiles us w...
World Music Matters - The many voices, and opinions, of ALA.NI from 2020-01-24T19:35:24
"Some tracks have 300 different layers of vocals and most of them are me," says Ala.ni about her new album Acca. The London-born, Paris-based singer with a rare four-octave range beguiles us w...
Asa unpicks many faces of love on new album Lucid from 2020-01-17T21:54:57
On her latest album Lucid, Nigerian singer-songwriter Asa explores the many colours of love: warm, dark, brilliant, somber, the joy, the longing, the wanting. But also the violence that can se...
World Music Matters - Asa unpicks many faces of love on new album Lucid from 2020-01-17T21:54:57
On her latest album Lucid, Nigerian singer-songwriter Asa explores the many colours of love: warm, dark, brilliant, somber, the joy, the longing, the wanting. But also the violence that can se...
La Mòssa: five women, one voice from 2020-01-10T18:38:09
La Mòssa are a five-piece band of female vocalists who excel at polyphonic chant. They've just released their debut album A Mòssa and talk to us about reinterpreting folksongs they love in a f...
World Music Matters - La Mòssa: five women, one voice from 2020-01-10T18:38:09
La Mòssa are a five-piece band of female vocalists who excel at polyphonic chant. They've just released their debut album A Mòssa and talk to us about reinterpreting folksongs they love in a f...
Sona Jobarteh: Changing the tradition of kora playing to ensure its survival from 2019-12-07T01:06:39
Sona Jobarteh comes from a long West African tradition of Griots and kora players from Mali and The Gambia. She's become one of the rare women in the world to master the 21-string instrument w...
World Music Matters - Sona Jobarteh: Changing the tradition of kora playing to ensure its survival from 2019-12-07T01:06:39
Sona Jobarteh comes from a long West African tradition of Griots and kora players from Mali and The Gambia. She's become one of the rare women in the world to master the 21-string instrument w...
World Music Matters - Emmanuel ? Djob: a soul man from Cameroon from 2019-11-29T22:39:18
Emmanuel ? Djob started out singing gospel in his native Cameroon and is building a successful blues-soul career in France. He heads up the six-piece AfroSoul Gang, but it’s performing alone w...
Emmanuel ? Djob: a soul man from Cameroon from 2019-11-29T21:39:18
Emmanuel ? Djob started out singing gospel in his native Cameroon and is building a successful blues-soul career in France. He heads up the six-piece AfroSoul Gang, but it’s performing alone w...
Klezmer, funk and hip hop unite against racism and intolerance in Trump’s America from 2019-11-22T19:33:18
A decade after their acclaimed album Tweet Tweet, Abraham Inc. return with Together We Stand, using their eclectic mix of klezmer, funk and hip hop to show that different religions, ages, sexe...
World Music Matters - Klezmer, funk and hip hop unite against racism and intolerance in Trump’s America from 2019-11-22T19:33:18
A decade after their acclaimed album Tweet Tweet, Abraham Inc. return with Together We Stand, using their eclectic mix of klezmer, funk and hip hop to show that different religions, ages, sexe...
Nick Gold: "I feel privileged and lucky to produce music with these people" from 2019-11-01T23:19:30
Nick Gold has been at the helm of World Circuit Records for close to three decades. The label has produced some of the best world music around: Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Touré, Oumou ...
World Music Matters - Nick Gold: "I feel privileged and lucky to produce music with these people" from 2019-11-01T23:19:30
Nick Gold has been at the helm of World Circuit Records for close to three decades. The label has produced some of the best world music around: Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Touré, Oumou ...
Raashan Ahmad: bringing light into the darkness from 2019-10-18T09:35:08
Raashan Ahmad is an American DJ, MC and hip hop artist with a big heart and a sharp mind. A thought-provoking rapper whose latest album The Sun explores joy and pain, hope and despair: the los...
World Music Matters - Raashan Ahmad: bringing light into the darkness from 2019-10-18T09:35:08
Raashan Ahmad is an American DJ, MC and hip hop artist with a big heart and a sharp mind. A thought-provoking rapper whose latest album The Sun explores joy and pain, hope and despair: the los...
Ghana's Pat Thomas still living the highlife from 2019-10-11T20:02:53
Dubbed "the golden voice of West Africa" Pat Thomas embodied the glory days of Ghanaian highlife in the 60s and 70s alongside the great Ebo Taylor. The music fell out of fashion in the 80s but...
World Music Matters - Ghana's Pat Thomas still living the highlife from 2019-10-11T20:02:53
Dubbed "the golden voice of West Africa" Pat Thomas embodied the glory days of Ghanaian highlife in the 60s and 70s alongside the great Ebo Taylor. The music fell out of fashion in the 80s but...