Record producer Joe Boyd recorded his new album with a group of southern Albanian singers and musicians. It's a record of polyphonic Albanian music that reminds him of his rock 'n' roll youth.

This is music way beyond the set-list, a spontaneous reaction from a band which has just delivered an immensely moving performance on stage, received with great emotion by an audience of exiles from ...

Polyphony, often used to describe a type of composition in early European music, is also practiced in other parts of the world, not only for aesthetic enjoyment but also to strengthen a society's ...