Gilles Peterson has become synonymous with the continued revelation of the latest talents that fuse non-traditional jazz with musical influences from across the world.  This explains why his twelfth annual worldwide awards sold out quickly and why many consider him an ambassador for world music, bringing new global concepts back…

Womex is something more than an exhibition: it’s more intense and bonding. That’s probably why, for the second time in the last three years, it happened in Santiago de Compostela. More than 2000 “peregrinos de la musica” (music pilgrims), as Paul Bräuer (Piranha’s Director of Communications) aptly defined them, gathered…

The second day of Mosaïques Festival, a ‘Festival of World Culture’ based at Rich Mix since 2014 and organised by Arts Canteen and Bureau Export, kicked off on a rainy Saturday night with the catchy Afro-pop rhythms of Yasmin Kadi. Kadi, who fled to the UK at 11 years old…