// INTERVIEWS
Boy from Niterói
Sambasupercollider (Brazil)24/10/2011
Tassili
Tinariwen (Mali)
Touareg music’s biggest stars Tinariwen are back with a new album. Tassili is a stripped-back, acoustic gem that echoes their early days. We talk to the band’s bassist Eyadou Ag Leche. Why did you leave Mali to record this new...
07/09/2011
Galaxies Not Ghettos
United Vibrations (United Kingdom)
On Saturday 6 August a local protest following the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham was the trigger for an intense wave of urban rioting across London and other major UK cities. Looting broke out on an unprecedented scale and continued for 5...
19/08/2011
Protest in HD
Calle 13 (Puerto Rico)
Ever since their debut hit ‘Querido FBI’ (protesting the 2005 assassination of a Puerto Rican independence leader), Calle 13 have channelled an urgent call for social change into their urban street sound. Hugely popular across the Americas,...
20/07/2011
East Harlem, Santa Fé...
Beirut (United States)
With a new album out this summer and a worldwide tour under way, we catch up with Beirut’s Zach Condon, the homebody with a wandering spirit. Do you remember the moment when you first starting playing music? Zach Condon: Vaguely. I do remember...
13/07/2011
Chico & Rita
Fernando Trueba (Spain)
Set in Havana in 1948, the animated film Chico & Rita is a love story powered by jazz. We talk to director Fernando Trueba and artist and designer Javier Mariscal. Your film Chico & Rita is inspired by the life of the pianist Bebo Valdés. Why did you...
13/07/2011
100 Years of Peruvian Music
Montes y Manrique (Peru)
Gérard Borras, researcher and lecturer on Latin American culture at the University of Rennes, has spent decades studying Peruvian syncretic culture. His deep love of criollo music led him to unearth some classics of the genre – the first ever...
06/07/2011
Black Heart
Mike Nicol (South Africa)
Back in the early 90s I came across a book vividly entitled A Good Looking Corpse. A compelling read, the book dealt with “Jazz and Gangsters, Hope and Defiance in the townships of South Africa”. It focussed on the very excellent Drum...
18/05/2011
Great Music, Safe Sex
Red Hot (United States)
Red Hot is a New York not-for-profit production company which has been “fighting AIDS through popular culture” for over 20 years. Having generated over $10 million through charity CDs and events, Red Hot donates direct to organisations all...
06/05/2011
Luo – London links
Owiny Sigoma Band (Kenya, United Kingdom)
“What I heard when I first played Owiny Sigoma Band on the radio was a phat, wayward dance record with African leanings and it just felt completely right,” explains Radio 1 DJ and Brownswood label owner Gilles Peterson, who jumped at the...
04/05/2011
Breakin' Convention
Jonzi D (United Kingdom)
The name of the upcoming Sadler’s Wells dance festival is both a memorable pun and acknowledges that substantively, it’s breaking the conventions of both genres of performance art it has adopted. Breakin’ Convention is hip hop...
27/04/2011
Les blogs
Mondomix
Puglia Sounds
It will be the window of Puglia Sounds in France and in all Europe. This blog will show all the i...
AFRO by SOUL
Africa is the future and the future is now…as the prophecy unfolds Eric Soul is as always ahead o...
The Center for Black Music
The Center for Black Music in Salvador, Bahia, and the International Exhibition of Black Music in...
Charlie Gillett
Charlie Gillett was one of the UK's leading World Music journalists. For years he presented a wee...
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