Fly Global Music

Clips of Youssou N'Dour, Rokia Traore, Solomon Burke, Oumou Sangare, Ethiopiques, and Roy Ayers among others all playing at this year's WOMAD in the UK.

Tony Allen, Afrobeat legend gives us the low down on his new album and the story of his time with Fela Kuti.

We are joined by Louise Gray, author of the No Nonsense Guide to World Music as we chew the fat on 'world music' and catch excerpts from Songlines Awards' winners.

Legendary African musician and inveterate border-crosser Baaba Maal talks about the tracks on his new album Television and the Africa he sees around him. We also hear excerpts from many of the tracks on this great album.

Ojos de Brujo (well four of the core group) discuss their new album Aocana (with lots of juicy excerpts) and their approach to making and performing music. The masters of rumba-jip-jop are back.

Mulatu Astatke became known to a wider public after his trademark Ethio-jazz was featured in the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers with Bill Murray. He has recently completed a new album with left-field jazz mavericks Heliocentrics and here he talks to Fly's editor Damian Rafferty about how he discovered his musical talent in the mid 1950s in North Wales of all places and progressed through the London bop scene and onto Berkeley and New York before bringing it back home to Ethiopia. We also get to hear excerpts of his amazing new album with the Heliocentrics.

The wonderful Jane Birkin talks candidly about her new album and people who inspired it including her siblings, children and of course Serge Gainsbourg.

Seun Kuti, son of the late, great Fela, isn't just carrying the musical torch, he is a thorn in the side of the government at home.|

Gilberto GIl is a Brazilian musical legend and co-creator of tropicalismo. He talks exclusively to Fly about leaving government, his time in prison and the latest album with its characteristically fresh and bold combination of sounds.