CONTENTS

76 Kayhan Kalhor

30 Anneli Drecker

H R S h i r m o h a m m a d i

B e r n a r d

B e n a n t

32 Inna de Yard

UPFRONT 06 Top of the World CD 09 What’s New 15 Songlines

Encounters Festival 16 Introducing...

Ifriqiyya Electrique & Vigüela 18 Simon Says... 19 Letters 21 Spotlight: Rio Mira

FEATURES 24 Alsarah

The Sudanese singer asks what is ‘home’? 30 Justin Adams

The guitarist teams up with Anneli Drecker 32 Inna de Yard

The acoustic return of the roots reggae collective 36 World Music on the Radio Exploring the role of radio in world music 40 Ian Brennan

An interview with the intrepid producer

“Dancing to salsa is utterly, miserably, truly awful, as spectacle and as experience and even as memory. And that’s as kind as it’s going to get...” Chris Moss doesn’t dance around the subject of salsa, p97

REVIEWS 48 Africa 50 Americas 54 Europe 59 Middle East 60 Fusion 64 Books 65 DVDs 67 Classical & Jazz 68 World Cinema 70 Live Reviews

REGULARS 72 My World:

Jude Kelly 75 Postcard from

Thailand 76 Beginner’s Guide to

Kayhan Kalhor 78 Festival Pass:

Lotus World Music & Arts Festival 81 Dispatch from Peru 83 Quickfire 85 My Instrument:

Mutsumi Aragaki 87 Gig Guide 94 Overseas Festivals 97 Soapbox 98 Essential Ten:

Roots Reggae Albums

40 Tanzania Albinism Collective

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