Page was one of the founding fathers of the dub global music scene who played a mix of global fusion, dub reggae, afrobeat ...

THE last time that I heard the late Mike Westbrook play piano was in September 2023 when he played a duet with his long-time ...

For almost three decades, the T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo band was cranking out hit after hit in West Africa. Its members were ...

to formal techno. Specifically, it’s like an update of Plastikman’s stark, relentless early-Nineties minimalism, but filtered through three decades of musical developments since. These tunes also seem ...

Benin is little known for its influence on African popular music. It is better known as the home of vodun, an ancient religion native to West Africa and the root of the syncretic religion voodoo found ...

Depuis 2007, Analog Africa, mené par Samy Ben Redjeb, sort de l’ombre des pépites musicales qui viennent d'Afrique, d'Amérique centrale et d'Amérique du sud. Antoine Dougbé est l'un des musiciens que ...

La salsa, célébrée aujourd’hui par Google pour le Mois du patrimoine hispanique américain, porte en elle une histoire profondément africaine qui mérite d’être racontée. Si cette musique est née dans ...

Listen to tracks by Dijon, Woody Guthrie, iLe and others. By Jon Pareles With “In Plain Sight,” Khalid dumps a cheating boyfriend and wonders how he didn’t see it coming. While the singer moves from ...

We’re celebrating the rich and colourful sounds of afro funk, with some of the most exciting live acts and DJs from across the genre. Headlining the night are Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou — the ...

For all that we’re living through desperate times, it can be sobering to consider the challenges facing creative people in eras and places by no means unimaginably distant from our own. Take, for ...

SPECIAL: In this special edition of the show, Global Village celebrates the birthday of October Featured Artist Celia Cruz. We’ll hear music from across the career of La Guarachera de Cuba and the ...

Le Poly-rythmo de Cotonou, l’un des premiers orchestres du Bénin et très populaire, en Afrique de l’Ouest, a perdu un de ses monuments, le guitariste et compositeur Gustave Bentho. Décédé le 19 ...