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UPFRONT 5 Welcome 6 Top of the World CD 7 My World – Alexei Sayle 8 Gallery – David Owen 10 News 14 Obituaries 15 Comrade Fatso 17 Detour/Where in the World? 18 Letters 19 Songlines Music Travel 20 Grooves – Lopa Kothari, Jah
Wobble & Mourad Mazouz 21 Songlines Chart 23 Songlines Music Awards
Alexei Sayle
Detour – Paraguay
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Miriam Makeba
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REGULARS 46 Sounding Out Delhi 48 Beginner’s Guide to
“Miles Davis was his own man; he was the Roy Keane of trumpet players”
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Miriam Makeba 50 Savannah Music Festival 52 Postcard from Tibet 57 Subscribe 89 On The Road – Listings 92 Back Issues 94 You Should Have Been There... 96 Backpage... from Armenia
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Jah Wobble
JAN / FEB09
COMPETITIONS 7 Win Alexei Sayle’s latest book 11 Win African Soul Rebels tickets 12 Win Geoffrey Gurrumul’s album 18 Win £50 in Play.com vouchers 21 Win CDs & vouchers with Borders 23 Win tickets to WOMAD 2009
with Songlines Music Awards 25 Win the ten albums of the year 29 Win tickets to see Amadou &
Mariam in London 38 Win tickets to see Estrella
Morente at London’s Flamenco Festival at Sadler’s Wells 55 Win ten Mr Bongo CDs 85 Win the No 1 Ladies’ Detective
REVIEWS
62 The Americas & The Caribbean 85DVDs & World Cinema
87Books
66Europe 76Middle
East 60Africa
Agency DVD 94 Win Trilok Gurtu concert tickets
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Songlines Music Awards
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75Asia
79 Australasia & Pacific
80Fusion
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Hunters’ whistles, metal scrapers and braying donkeys
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