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‘I felt caught between cultures’: Mongolian musician Enji on her beguiling, border-crossing music
G rowing up in the icy Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, singing was as natural as speech for Enkhjargal Erkhembayar. “Every day after my...
Apr 29
Dub against Dystopia | Interview with Joe Armon-Jones
Joe Armon-Jones is thinking about the end of music. On his latest, third album as bandleader, the 32-year-old pianist is imagining a...
Apr 25
Global Music Column – April
Negros Tou Moria – Mavri Ellada A s far-right political parties have risen in Greece in recent years, young artists from Athens’ migrant...
Apr 14
Lonnie Holley: “My legacy is showing people how to get over the hurdles”
“All my life, I’ve been on an adventure – I’ve experienced the trials and tribulations of what it means to be human,” Lonnie Holley says....
Apr 10
Recipes from an Iranian prison: ‘If there is one book that shows the power of words, it’s this one’
“Women are second-class citizens in Iran and in prison they are oppressed even more,” Maziar Bahari says. The Iranian journalist and...
Apr 10
When we lose parents and grandparents, it’s up to us to continue their stories
Before I knew who I was, I knew I was an immigrant. As long as I can remember, before I had a solid sense of self, passions, even...
Apr 10
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali are reigniting a centuries-old musical tradition
In the 28 years since the death of qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , the centuries-old Sufi devotional music tradition has...
Apr 10
‘New artists need to take up the mantle now’: inside the west London scene that pioneered British Muslim hip-hop
Among the bustling market stalls in 1980s Shepherd’s Bush in west London, there was a small group of teenage boys breakdancing and...
Apr 10
‘It’s nice to be morally dubious’: Cheaters star Joshua McGuire on the hit show and his new role – as a rhino
F or the past five weeks, Joshua McGuire has been in a whitewashed room in north London pretending to be a rhinoceros. The 37-year-old...
Mar 24
Global Music Column – March
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Yarın Yoksa S ince the 1960s, Turkish groups have honed a distinct blend of Anatolian folk and...
Mar 24
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