Global Artists

If you want to know the roots of Banco de Gaia's music, go back to the British hippie space-rock band Hawkwind. "I saw them on television in 1971," said Toby Marks, the man who is Banco de Gaia, ...

Bassist Yossi Fine had an idea. In his head he heard sounds that fused tribal African music with hip-hop beats, Jamaican dub techniques and dance floor-friendly basslines. "I always felt that ...

Hip-hop has become the international musical currency. From Greenland to Goa, Pakistan to Peru, the rap and rhythm have become the defining sounds of a generation. And the way musicians around the ...

He loves soul singer Al Green and Indian music. He's played Motown in bands and busked for change in Northern India with the street singers Bauls of Bengal. For Jai Uttal, it's just music, whether ...

In joy there can also be sadness - quite literally in the case of Anglo-Asian band Joi. Formed in the mid-80s by brothers Farook and Haroon Shamsher, it was literally torn in two when Haroon died of ...

It's all about roots, really. If you don't know where you come from, and explore that, then you're pretty much just drifting into the future. Natacha Atlas, who's recorded with Jah Wobble and been a ...

There's a case to be made for Red Hot + Riot: A Tribute to the Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti being one of the year's best albums. Not only does it bubble with Afrobeat, it also brings together ...

It's a hard decision for a band to change its name, especially with two albums already to their name, and a good reputation. But that's exactly what the Ali Khan Band did. After five years of ...

The State of Bengal is more than a territory in India. State of Bengal is also a band that emerged from Britain's burgeoning Asian Underground scene, the brainchild of Sam Zaman, and their Visual ...

"Fed Ex was probably our biggest collaborator," laughed producer Bill Laswell about his newest recording venture, Tala Matrix. The maverick American corralled Indian and Ango-Indian percussionists - ...

Transglobal Underground are probably the godfathers of world fusion. A mighty claim, but largely true, dating back to their first single, "Templehead," which set the course for the genre known as ...