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UPFRONT 06 Top of the World 08 What’s New 13 Songlines Encounters
Festival 2023 14 Introducing…
Shovel Dance Collective and Su-a Lee 17 Spotlight:
Lisa O’Neill 18 Simon Says 19 Letters
FEATURES 20 Ali Farka Touré
Remembering the Malian maestro 26 Hack-Poets Guild
A trio reviving history’s darkest ballads 30 Baaba Maal
Senegal’s finest returns with long-awaited new album 34 Polobi
A glimpse of the reclusive gwo ka legend 36 Taiwan
Uncovering the island’s aboriginal music
REVIEWS 42 Africa 46 Americas 50 Europe 56 Asia 58 Middle East 60 Fusion 64 Classical & Jazz 65 Live Reviews
“[Stella Chiweshe] heard the voices of her ancestors
in her ear, telling her the only remedy to the pain in her chest was to play the
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instrument [the mbira]” Read Nigel Williamson’s obituary of pioneering
Zimbabwean musician Stella Chiweshe, p12
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REGULARS 66 My World:
Tom Cox 68 Beginner’s Guide to
Gal Costa 70 Festival Pass:
Budapest Ritmo 73 Postcard from
Thailand 74 Dispatch from
Angola 75 Quickfire 77 My Instrument:
Maija Kauhanen and her kantele 78 Gig Guide 81 Soapbox 82 Essential 10:
African Guitar Albums
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