This week’s GondwanaSound Album of the Week is Mansana Blues from Diabel Cissokho and Ramon Goose, two young creatives bringing their own traditions together, seamlessly.…
GondwanaSound Album of the Week: Mansana Blues from Diabel Cissokho
Author: Jill Turner
Jill Turner contributes to Songlines Magazine, World Music Central and is on the fRoots critics albums of the year panel. Her radio show GondwanaSound broadcasts on Sheffield Live! 93.2FM to the fourth largest city in the UK and is carried on both Radio Groovalizacion and African Internet Radio.
GondwanaSound’s Album of the Week: Wona Baba Maraire by Tendai Maraire
The Album of the Week at GondwanaSound radio show is “Wona Baba Maraire” from a Seattle based Zimbabwean, Tendai Maraire. Whether it was writing hip…
GondwanaSound’s Album of the Week: Rangarang
The Album of the Week at GondwanaSound radio show is Rangarang, a two CD compilation of forgotten jewels from prerevolutionary Iran on the Vampisoul Label.…
Annual World Music Gathering Musiport Festival 2011 Returns to UK
All roads lead to Bridlington Spa this week as we gear up for the annual Musiport Festival, which will take place November 4-6, 2011. Musiport…
Tori Ensemble at WOMAD Charlton Park
It was midday on Sunday, the third day of the WOMAD festival at Charlton Park and after a big Saturday night, there was already quite…
Album of the week: The Magical Light of Saba from the Light of Saba Band
Welcome to another GondwanaSound round the world music adventure fasten your seatbelts and prepare for contrasting sounds as we travel to Jamaica, India, Sarawak, Senegal…
Rockin’ Bhangra
Kissmet Trippin’ the life fantastic! Silks, turbans, tablas and electric guitars. With roots in the Punjab, “Trippin’ the life fantastic!” is possibly the perfect rock…
GondwanaSound Report, November 23rd, 2010
In the week when Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in Burma, Ireland came to the brink of Bankruptcy and a Royal…
The GondwanaSound Report, October 16
Musicport World Music festival is round the corner taking place from 22nd – 24th October in Bridlington. Angelique Kidjo apologized for having to pull out,…
Intelligent Revolution
Tiken Jah Fakoly African Revolution (Wrasse Records, 2010) Leaving behind, his rifle bearing band of brothers who accompanied him on his last album, the African,…