Songlines

Songlines is the definitive magazine for world music – music that has its roots in all parts of the globe, from Mali to Mexico, India to Iraq. Whether this music is defined as traditional, contemporary, folk or fusion, Songlines is the only publication to truly represent and embrace it. However, Songlines is not just about music, but about how the music fits into the landscape; it’s about politics, history and identity, and the artists who incite change through their music. Through its extensive articles and reviews, Songlines is your essential guide to an extraordinary world of music and culture, whether you are starting on your journey of discovery or are already a seasoned fan.

STILL MOVING • Justin Adams and Mauro Durante, managed to get together to make an intense and intimate record "Still Moving”.

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CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE INCLUDE

TOP OF THE WORLD • On your free CD – the editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in this issue

Afghanistan silenced • Views, news and events from around the world

West African special hits the shelves

The world comes to Canada

Accolades for Aynur and Global Music Match

Roman cups runneth over

OBITUARIES

FOLK FOCUS • What’s happening in the folk world

SPOTLIGHT EarthPercent • A new charity is seeking to enlist the music industry in an eco-sustaining enterprise. Russ Slater speaks to Adam Callan, director of EarthPercent

Dongyang Gozupa • The Korean group are turning the power trio on its head, using tropes of their national music to make genre-splicing sounds, as Jim Hickson reports

Melisande [electrotrad] • Mark Sampson meets the Québécois group’s core duo to discuss their captivating blend of French-Canadian trad and club-friendly electronics

SIMON SAYS… • While in Germany, Simon Broughton catches up with the klezmer clarinettist Giora Feidman before his concert at Görlitz Synagogue

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THE MUSIC OF WEST AFRICA

MAMA PERU • For five decades Susana Baca has been performing plangent protest songs in the name of South America’s marginalised peoples, the poor and the planet. On the eve of the release of her latest album, Palabras Urgentes, the Afro-Peruvian diva talks to Chris Moss

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Music & the Climate Crisis • Before the world’s leaders convene in Glasgow for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, Chris Moss introduces some of the global artists who are committed to tackling the impending ecological catastrophe

Messages from Mother Earth • From Indigenous rap to eco-electronica, Latin American musicians, producers and DJs are transposing trancey birdsong and deep forest vibes into the heart of the city. Chris Moss reports

Pipeline Blues • North America’s First Nations artists are on the frontline, fighting against the exploitation of natural resources in the land of their ancestors. Marc Fournier speaks to some of the artists leading the charge against global ruination

Deep Freeze Dynamic • Simon Broughton offers both paws and thaws for thought as he explores the animal spirits of the Northern Sámi and the frozen depths of Terje Isungset’s Arctic Ice Music project, which arrives in the UK next month

Weathering the Storm • Bangladesh has been one of the hardest hit countries when it comes to climate change, suffering devastating floods and extreme weather. Nazmus Chowdhury traces the folksongs that tell the story

Sea Change • Jane Cornwell speaks to producers Tim Cole and BaoBao Chen from the Small Island Big Song project, whose latest release focuses on sustainability...