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REVIEWS44 Africa46 Americas50 Europe57 Middle East58 Fusion63 DVDs64 Books67 Classical & Jazz68 World Cinema70 Live Reviews

“Contemporary music can act as a portal to take you back

in time. Start with funk and you’re soon exploring the

roots of urban blues”Mark Sampson reveals his pedagogic tendencies , p97

UPFRONT06 Top of the World CD09 What’s New14 Introducing...

La Mambanegra & Bargou 0816 Simon Says...17 Letters19 Spotlight:

António Zambujo20 Songlines Music Travel21 Songlines Encounters

Festival 2017

FEATURES22 Mokoomba

The Zimbabwean band’s long-awaited return

28 Bollywood Brass Band & Jyotsna Srikanth Karnatic connections

32 Warsaw Village Band Polish pagan folk-punk

36 Debashish Bhattacharya A Hawaiian affair

38 Beyond the Beat Preview of an exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall

REGULARS72 My World:

Peter Frankopan75 Postcard from

Jerusalem76 Beginner’s Guide:

Orchestra Baobab78 Festival Pass:

Cappadox Festival81 Dispatch from

Namibia83 Quickfire85 My Instrument:

Jayme Stone87 Gig Guide 97 Soapbox98 Essential Ten:

Zimbabwean Albums

Link Reuben

Isabel PintoPozitif

StreetCollodionA

rt/Michal Sitkiew

icz, Pawel Sokolow

ski

71 Live Reviews Sauti za Busara

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