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68 Live Reviews

CONTENTS

Mongolian Music Archive

D i m i t r i S t a s z e w s k i

B r a m L a m m e r s

Sauti Sol performing at the MTN Bushfire festival in Swaziland

B a r t e k

M u r a c k i

UPFRONT 06 Top of the World CD 09 What’s New 14 Introducing...

Ten Strings and a Goat Skin & Chouk Bwa Libète 16 Simon Says... 17 Letters 18 Songlines Music Travel 19 Spotlight:

The Grit Orchestra

FEATURES 20 Lura

The Cape Verdean singer talks about her heritage 26 Afro-Haitian

Experimental Orchestra Mixing Haitian voodoo chants with Afrobeat 28 Mercedes Peón

The Galician powerhouse 32 Breabach

The young Scottish band who are going places 36 Edward II

Breabach The young Scottish band who are going places Edward II Bringing 19th-century Mancunian penny broadsides to life

Bringing 19th-century Mancunian penny broadsides to life

REVIEWS 44 Africa 46 Americas 50 Europe 56 Middle East 57 Pacific 58 Fusion 65 Books 66 World Cinema 68 Live Reviews

“It’s a sad victory for prejudice and narrow-mindedness... Brexit

“It’s a sad victory for prejudice and narrow-mindedness... Brexit is totally contrary to everything is totally contrary to everything that Songlines stands for”

stands for”

Simon Broughton makes his views on Brexit very clear, p16

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REGULARS 74 My World:

Lee Hall 77 Postcard from

East Sussex 78 Beginner’s Guide:

Oumou Sangaré 81 Dispatch from

Essaouira, Morocco 83 Quickfire 85 My Instrument:

Quickfire 85 My Instrument:

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 87 Gig Guide 97 Soapbox 98 Essential Ten:

Festival bands

81 Dispatch from

Essaouira

K a r i m T i b a r i

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