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Tamikrest
Song of the Day: A stirring, evocative song of defiance and resistance to the repression of northern Mali people by the acclaimed Saharan rock band, from their upcoming sixth album, Assikel, out on 15 May via Glitterbeat Records
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Chris Brain
Song of the Day: A beautiful Nick Drake-reminiscent new folk number with intricate finger-picking by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, and the title track heralding his new album Red Sun Rising, out 1 May via Big Sun Records
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Madra Salach’s EP It's a Hell of an Age
Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music
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Ye Vagabonds
Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January
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Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right (EP) - out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: This beautiful title track from the new EP by the Irish folk singer-songwriter from Cavan is a powerful original about man-made, greed-motivated unnatural disasters, joining with five other poignant numbers, including a new version of The Bleak Midwinter, out now on Rough Trade
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Anish Kumar - Everything Blooms Around Her
Song of the Day: Infectious, interweaving dance music with a south Asian flavour (sourcing India singer Aruna Lama’s beautiful folk song Hera na Hera and sampled vocals from a cover by Bakemono Gurung) put together by the DJ electronic musician who has simultaneously studying veterinary medicine at Cambridge University
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Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Song of the Day: A slice of punchy Balkan brass fun by Toronto’s Canadian collective band, featuring fiery Ukrainian and Spanish rap against floating traditional Ukrainian polyphonic vocals in what is also the title track of their latest album
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Lankum: Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat (Photo by Richard Dumas)
Song of the Day: Giving an old number new life, the acclaimed Irish folk band herald their forthcoming Live In Dublin album with a fabulous version of the traditional 19th-century song by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool from Ireland
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Afla Sackey taking it easy …
Song of the Day: A fantastically vibrant, uplifting new single from the Ghanaian vocalist and djembe drummer and his band Afrik Bawantu, blending traditional music, Afrobeat grooves and funk in a song about dealing with life’s daily trials and tribulations
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Mdou Moctar
Song of the Day: Building to a powerful guitar crescendo, a stirring new desert blues and rock single about cultural identity by the Nigerian Tuareg musician and band return with a title meaning “brother or comrade”
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Dorothy Carter’s recently reissued album Waillee Waillee
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
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Katy J Pearson’s Wicker Man EP
Song of the Day: Covering a folk tune both beautiful and oddly disturbing, the Bristol singer-songwriter is joined by collaborators with this fertility rite song from The Wicker Man (1973) from a new EP with other songs from the cult British horror film
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Me Lost Me’s forthcoming album, RPG
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s marine life-inspired music by Cosmo Sheldrake, further stimulus about the natural world comes from the string and drone style of Newcastle-upon-Tyne experimental folk artist Jayne Dent from the forthcoming album RPG
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Caroline Polachek
Song of the Day: From her interim EP Welcome To My Island, a sprightly Spanish flamenco-influenced and sunnily beautiful love song by the American singer-songwriter, her voice soaring and warbling, bird-like, in the chorus
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Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
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Imarhan collaborate again with Gruff Rhys on a short EP
Song of the Day: After the Algerian Tuareg quintet’s gorgeous album Aboogi released in January this year included a collaboration on the song Adar Newlon, Welsh artist Rhys teams up again with another beautiful, delicate track of subtle guitar licks and gentle vocals
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Up and Away with Σtella
Song of the Day: Stylish, uplifting retro pop by the artist from Athens, combining 60s pop with Greek influences with oodles of charm and in this song created with artist and producer Tom Calvert (aka Redinho) and the title track from the album out on Sub Pop
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Arooj Aftab
Song of the Day: An exquisite new song about sudden memory of an absent friend, by the Grammy Award-winning US-base sublime Pakistani singer and composer, best known for the song Mohabbat, joined here by the famous British-Indian-American Indian sitar player
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Liraz’s second album, Zan.
Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions
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Song of the Day: An entrancing cinematic, instrumental fusion of electronica and traditional Spanish folk guitar music by the Brussels based artist with Bolivian heritage, taken from the EP Pocualeíto
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