// INTERVIEWS
Boy from Niterói
When Daniel Ruiz joined the Cubango samba school in Niterói it changed his life. And his new electronic samba project Sambasupercollider may be about to rearrange your atoms too. Mondomix met him in Rio: You are based in Niterói, across the bridge from...
Tassili
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...
Galaxies Not Ghettos
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...
Protest in HD
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,...
East Harlem, Santa Fé...
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...
Chico & Rita
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...
100 Years of Peruvian Music
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...
Black Heart
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...
Great Music, Safe Sex
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...
Luo – London links
“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...
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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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