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Music Planet

Music: World

The best roots-based music from across the world.

The best roots-based music from across the world - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent, classic tracks and new releases.

Music Planet: Baloji in session

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Baloji in session

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Lopa Kothari with rapper Baloji, a Road Trip to Bulgaria and a mixtape from Meklit.

Lopa Kothari presents a studio session from Belgian Congolese rapper Baloji, plus a Mixtape by Ethio-Jazz singer Meklit and Eugenia Georgieva takes us on a Road Trip to Bulgaria.

Lopa Kothari presents a studio session from musician, poet and film director Baloji, singer Eugenia Georgieva takes us on a Road Trip to Bulgaria, Ethio-Jazz singer songwriter Meklit gifts us an all female African Diaspora Mixtape, and this week's Classic Artist is Grenadan-born Trinidadian calypso master The Mighty Sparrow. Also in the show are some rare retro sounds from Paris in the 80s from a new compilation called Nouvelle Ambiance, new music from Turkey's Gaye Su Akyol, Kora maestro Dawda Jobarteh and Tuvan legends Huun Huur Tu.  

Born in Democratic Republic of the Congo and growing up in Belgium Baloji creates music that is a glorious mixture of traditional African rhythms and electronic hip-hop and funk. His third album '137 Avenue Kaniama', named after the street in Lubumbashi where he met his estranged mother after 25 years apart, draws on the musical heritage of the 1970s, an era when Afro-American artists were inspired by African music and vice versa, and explores a range of concerns and struggles both personal and communal. 

Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new release, and every week a bespoke Road Trip from a different corner of the globe, taking us to the heart of its music and culture. Plus special guest Mixtapes and gems from the BBC archives. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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