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Real World music featured on BBC Two’s Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan embarks on a journey across Africa, soundtracked by music from Real World.

Les Amazones d’Afrique announce European summer tour

The African female musical collective will perform new music with a new line-up

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook album Night Song to get a vinyl release

The 1996 Grammy-nominated album has never been available on vinyl before

Society of Sound: WOMAD 2018

Within the eclectic musical landscape that already marks WOMAD out as a champion of music and culture from around world, there is a corner of the Charlton Park site that still managed to carve out its own distinctive contribution to the musical palette; a new stage dedicated to experimental sounds....

The Breath announce new music and share ‘Only Stories’

Only Stories (Let The Cards Fall Revisited) features acoustic performances from Real World Studios.

Society of Sound statement

It’s ten years since the formation of Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound - a monthly place to liste...

9Bach announces acoustic EP ‘Noeth’, shares ‘Llyn Du’

9Bach announce forthcoming acoustic EP, debut album re-issue and PRS For Music project.

Ayub Ogada, 1956-2019

One of Kenya's most loved musicians, Ayub Ogada, has died at the age of 63.

Society of Sound: Szun Waves

Sometimes in improvised music there can be a distance between listener and players, a sense you’re sitting back and admiring their interplay and abstraction – but with Szun Waves’ second album New Hymn to Freedom, the January 2019 release on Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound, you’re right in...

The Gloaming announce new album and share two tracks

The band's third album will be released on 22 February, ahead of their European and US tours.

Bokanté share new video from Real World duo session

Michael League and Malika Tirolien strip things back with a duo session in The Big Room.