Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...
Sharon Katz taught herself to play the guitar when she was 11 and went on to use music as a tool for good — first in her native South Africa, and later around the world. “I was attracted to the ...
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The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...