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Articles about Music, ordered by date. 
Music reviews
Records from General Paolino featuring Mama Celina and Quercus.
Celebrating Subversion
Music by The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow (Fuse Records CF 099 2CD).
Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador
Music by Graveola (Mais Um Discos CD MAIS013)
'We call it life'
'Riots have been nearly happening all my life,' poet-rapper Speech Debelle tells Louise Gray.
Viscera
The new album by Norwegian artist Jenny Hval is astonishing - as much about poetry and story-telling as performance, says Louise Gray.
Japanese Dub
The latest album from Jah Wobble and the Nippon Dub Ensemble.
Genuine Negro Jig
Hoe-down fiddles, the rhythmic rattle of spoons and kazoos with some banjos marking time, and you could be – where? A fictive Appalachian town? Some 1930s travelling music show?
Empire and Love
Folk music, as Empire and Love shows so well, is a music that has a grounding in both past and present, both populist and political.
Ali & Toumani
An intimate album with the space for real spontaneity
Tsikaya: Músicos do Interior
Assembled under the artistic directorship of Victor Gama, Tsikaya is a superb example of how music is rooted in the society it comes from.
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