They re Calling Me Home. We also reveal the nominations for the
Songlines Music Awards 2021. Other features include an interview with folk singer-songwriter and activist
Peggy Seeger, who shares stories about her remarkable life and career;
Piers Faccini reveals his borderless approach to music-making; a Beginner’s Guide to Argentinian accordion player
Chango Spasiuk, plus all the latest news, online streamed concert reviews, CD, book and world cinema reviews.
This month s exclusive 15-track
Top of the World album (available as a CD and download) includes
Frente Cumbiero,
Best New Albums – May 2021 (Ballaké Sissoko, Peggy Seeger, Piers Faccini, Jon Boden)
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Regional Latin music on the rise: Colombian genres
In part 2 of Chartmetric’s exploration of Latin music’s regional rise, we dive into how global music streaming platforms are fueling the rise in popularity of genres like Vallenato, Colombian Popular Music, Cumbia, and Champeta throughout the world.
Guest post by
Francisco Toscano of Chartmetric
Colombian stars Paola Jara and Jessi Uribe are part of Colombia’s movement, as its regional music goes international.
As we explored in Part 1 of this series about Mexico, the explosion of digital platforms has not only propelled the careers of mainstream Pop and Hip-Hop acts, but it has also helped to bring the world’s regional Latin music genres into the limelight. Latin America, being such a big market economically, culturally, and geographically, has countless regional Latin music genres to offer; and the possibility of any of them crossing over to regional success is real. One country in particular has managed to become an
Strummer Meets Landero: A Musical Bridge Between Colombian Cumbia and London Punk
This year s
International Clash Day celebrates a whole conceptual and musical work by the British band, but will specifically echo words uttered by Joe Strummer in 1976 that continue to resonate today, and will undoubtedly continue to do so tomorrow:
“We’re anti-fascist, we’re anti-violence, we’re anti-racist, and we’re pro-creative. We’re against ignorance.”
The fine-tuning between The Clash s explicitly anti-fascist ideology and future Latin American punk artists feels natural. It can be heard in the several references to Latin America in lyrics such as Washington bullets , their entire
Thursday, January 28, 2021 Songlines #165 (March 2021) is out now! A Beginner s Guide to Ballaké Sissoko; Pakistan s vocal master Ustad Saami dials up devotion through a dying art; the music industry s response to COVID-19; Electric Jalaba s homage to Gnawa music and more in the latest issue of Songlines
The March 2021 issue (#165) of
Songlines is now on sale. This issue’s cover star is
Ballaké Sissoko, the Malian master of
kora collaboration who has a new album coming out in April. Other features include a look at the music industry s response to the impact of COVID-19 around the world; an interview with singer
Ustad Saami from Pakistan; an overview of the current
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