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The duo transport listeners to the country’s northern region on their first album in more than a decade
Drawing inspiration from Brazilian rhythms and an Anne Sexton poem, the track became a live favourite and was covered globally
A new album combines music from the country’s northern region with reggae and highlife
The Soweto band’s latest album includes trance-inflected polyrhythms and punning spoken word
The Tuareg band sing about military confrontations on tracks featuring producer Daniel Lanois
The kamancheh player and the kora player pair up for a fruitful east-west dialogue
He parlayed his fame into passionate advocacy for the US civil rights movement
A new compilation celebrates the Algerian band who drew on western influences from Jimi Hendrix to James Brown
The American has returned after illness with an album about love that also touches on political polarisation
The Senegalese singer hymns nature and progress on a new record
Kora, cello, sax and accordion combine in multiple genre-hopping combinations
A cache of previously unreleased songs recorded by the Malian master between 1991 and 2004
It formed part of the new South Africa’s national anthem and was adopted by revolutionaries elsewhere
The Haitian singer turns to universal themes of freedom and change in her latest release
Shimmering songs form a musical travelogue celebrating the landscape of Guadeloupe
The centrepiece of the album sees the guitarist stretching out across a 40-minute track
Songs from the composer/producer’s moody film soundtracks conjure a lonely atmosphere
With its brilliantly playful rhymes, Sportin’ Life’s sceptical song from Porgy and Bess has been covered and reinterpreted over the years
This six-CD box set traces the band’s Ship of Theseus years as original members were replaced
Our critic surveyed the globe to pick his top 10, taking in Colombia, Iran, South Africa and Mali
Recorded in Memphis, these traditional carols are reimagined with a rockabilly sound
Traditional instruments are back in the protean songs of the Turkish singer’s latest record
French-Algerian producer Nadjib Ben Bella and South African DJ Aero Manyelo are joined numerous vocalists and musicians on this buzzing debut
The English singer and her band’s wide-ranging set list was crowdsourced from Twitter
The rhetoric of South Africa’s liberation struggle echoes across the Johannesburg band’s latest album
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