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Clicking image links to: World Tour #18 - Palestine & Israel Albums Playlist, 2026 Update Sun Never Sets On Music's never-ending World Tour returns to Palestine & Israel, as we supplement our May 2024 playlist of music from the war-torn land. I posted that playlist around 7 months after the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel, which killed around 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals. The Israeli response to this heinous act had been and continues to be brutal - around 3

To celebrate Radiohead's return to touring after a seven year absence (other than side projects) we present the video of their first show of their European Tour.

From all around the world, imagine a playlist of the most beautiful, angelic music. This is it! Click album covers below to open individually in Spotify or Click album covers above to open individually in Spotify or

SunNeverSetsOnMusic’s World Tour turns Stateside this month with a deep dive into USA Southern Soul - the living, breathing tradition that blends gospel, blues, R&B, funk, and country into something raw, resonant, and defiantly human. This music is forged in churches, juke joints, kitchen-table studios and front porches - a soul language passed from generation to generation and still evolving in the hands of today’s most urgent voices. The Southern United States, stretching f

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour heads south this month to South Africa, where we’ve uncovered a dazzling spectrum of forward-thinking albums spanning spiritual jazz, gqom, amapiano, post-punk, protest rap and traditional-inflected sonic experimentation. These artists are not only redefining South Africa’s soundscape but are also asserting its voice across global stages with urgency, soul and brilliance. Officially the Republic of South Africa, the nation occupies the souther

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour heads north this month to Norway, where we’ve uncovered a striking array of bold, genre-defying albums from artists working across experimental jazz, electronic minimalism, indigenous Sámi traditions, progressive pop, and more. Many of these musicians are expanding Norway’s rich musical heritage into new, internationally resonant territory. Officially known as the Kingdom of Norway, the country stretches over the western portion of the Scandin

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour visits Indonesia this month, where we were treated to a vast wealth of innovative sounds across many genres, including many artists whose work merges local and regional musical heritage with contemporary, international sounds. The Republic of Indonesia is spread across an archipelago that comprises over 17,000 islands - including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state an

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's World Tour returns to Australia this month, to capture the best albums released here in the second half of 2024. It's another impressive output to add to the many albums released in the first half of the year and captured in our World Tour #6 - Australia's Best New Albums (Jan - Jun '24). Highlights include albums by Allysha Joy, Ela Thompson, Emily Wurramara, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Necks, Paul Kelly and Parvyn but there are many many more too

If you thought German music was still cabaret and beer-halls, krautrock and EDM, think again! There's still some of that but there's a wider range of music coming out of Germany these days. (And it's not only from Berlin, which nearly half a century later still attracts musicians from all around the world seeking inspiration on the streets where Nico, Nina, Bowie, Eno, Iggy, U2, Nick Cave, Pixies, REM ... lived and loved and recorded). So, for the tenth instalment of our 2024

34 RECENT FLAMENCO ALBUMS - ESSENTIAL LISTENING LINK TO FLAMENCO ALBUMS WEBPAGE LINK TO SPOTIFY PLAYLIST Spain is surely one of the most musical places of them all and Flamenco is a cultural jewel of Spain. Originating in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the 18th century, flamenco emerged as a unique art form deeply influenced by the region's diverse cultural heritage, blending Romani, Moorish, Jewish, and Andalusian folk traditions. Over time, flamenco evolved into a globally c

SunNeverSetsOnMusic invites you to sample the magic of Tanjazz again this year - imagining the atmosphere inside the Palais des Institutions Italiennes - and between sessions, a great meal of seafood, pasta and pizza with a bottle of Terres Rouges at the Casa d'Italia. Tanjazz is the annual festival of Jazz in Morocco's northernmost city of Tangier. The lineup of performers goes to new high level this year as it brings the music of Northern Africa and Andalusian Spain togethe

This month we journey to Taiwan to capture the best music we could find from the past couple of years. Having lived in Taipei for a few years, we have great affection for this island of striking contrasts, whose diversity of cultures and environments is reflected in the music. Our playlist ranges from the serenity of Debby Wang's and Chien Chien Lu's vibraphonic jazz to the intense wall of sound of Dharma's death metal Buddhist chanting - with experimental, folk, soul and muc

As our 2024 World Tour of music continues, we're in Australia to capture the best albums released there in the first half of 2024. It's an impressive output, with more than 40 artists featured. Classy albums came from a few "household-names" - Peter Garrett, Crowded House and Jessica Mauboy - each incrementally refreshing their familiar brands. But the standouts, the most challenging and interesting new releases, came from less famous acts - Hiatus Kaiyote, The Dirty Three,

SunNeverSetsOnMusic's world tour of music continues to it's 5th destination, as we swing back to Morocco to check on some of the artists scheduled to appear at the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, which is held within the ancient walls of that mind-blowing city, in late May each year. The festival attracts established and emerging world class artists every year, who play to awed audiences whose musical experience is invariably broadened thanks to by the enlightened organis

This month's stopover on Sun Never Sets On Music's 2024 World Tour is to sample the music of Israel & Palestine, . May songs of peace be soon heard again across the Holy Land. Direct Link To Albums & Reviews Direct Link to Spotify Playlist Direct Link to YouTube Playlist

This month Sun Never Sets On Music visits Morocco, as we tour the globe in search of the best music worldwide. Morocco has a special place in SunNeverSetsOnMusic's heart - after all, we spent a few good years living there and we were enchanted by the architecture, the music, the culture and the wonderful people of this timeless land. For this month's playlist, we have collected our favourite music from some of the many musical streams that are heard in Morocco. Selections ran

It's February - the month of Carnival in Brazil! So Stage 2 of SunNeverSetsOnMusic's virtual world tour takes us to Brazil, as we continue our search of the best new music from around the world With its roots deep in indigenous heritage, overlaid by centuries of African and Portuguese influence, we find Samba (the pulse of Carnival!)and a vibrant new music scene that is thriving despite its relative linguistic and geographical isolation. Internationally, Brazilian music is pr

In 2024 SunNeverSetsOnMusic invites you on a virtual world tour in search of the best new music from around the world. Our first destination is Japan, where we find a new generation of Japanese artists who have embraced the century-old Japanese love of jazz and are bringing a fresh approach to everything they do - world-aware and ever-informed by their Japanese heritage. This vibrant, inter-connected music community, includes expatriate artists who have set up bases in Europe