Music

The name of Margaret Thatcher is humming loudly over the broadband connections these days…

CDs that didn't quite make a full review, but are still worthy of a mention.…

Starting where founding father of afrobeat Fela Kuti left off, this album features energetic tracks of sweaty inventiveness.…

For all its ancient antecedents, Siwan is a very modern album and a joyous meditation for that…

‘We’ll only stop playing when we have the last despot hanging from our guitar strings.’ Louise Gray on a brave artist who’s staying put in Zim and making musical ‘food for freedom fighters’.…

Congo’s amazing disabled rhythm-maestros Staff Benda Bilili…

Pashm’s band – a judicious mixture of Greek, Jewish and Balkan musicians – belt along with brass, baglamas, woodwind and lyres at their disposal.…

Made in tandem with the Albanian accordionist / composer Dasho Kurti, the 11 songs on Deserted Villages offer a broad palate, and not all of it mournful.…

Certainly some of these songs may have once been heard over fields and cradles rather than concert halls, but their translation from private to public music is a beautiful one.…

New instrumental album by *Hector Zazou* and *Swara*…