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Preview: Music Across Italy Weekender (Saturday Line-Up)

Have a weekend in Italy on us! Take Saturday and Sunday off, join us on Facebook and discover the new sounds coming from the Italian music scene. From 10AM on Saturday 30th of May till 11PM on Sunday the 31st (British Summer Time), in partnership with Turin-based eclectic label Salgari...

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Preview: Music Across Italy (Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st May 2020)

Have a weekend in Italy on us! Take Saturday and Sunday off, join us on Facebook and discover the new sounds coming from the Italian music scene. From 3PM on Saturday 30th of May till 11PM on Sunday the 31st (British Summer Time), in partnership with Turin-based eclectic label Salgari...

26 May
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Album Review

Album Review: Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice [World Circuit Records; March 2020]

With the very recent passing of Tony Allen, this set of recordings has special significance. He and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela had been planning on making a record together for years and in 2010 this finally was about to become a reality. Producer Nick Gold got the two titans...

21 May
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Preview: Global Afrobeat e-Fest (Saturday 23rd May 2020)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, afrobeat’s rise in global popularity in the past decade has unavoidable. But the genre, with a rich history based on instrumental figures such as Fela Kuti, Tony Allen and Oghene Kologbo dating back to the late 60s, is more than a commercial fad....

21 May
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Interview

Interview: Los Bitchos – Fried Chicken with a Side of Cumbia (May 2020)

Los Bitchos are five hilarious, humble and super friendly ladies that form the UK’s best-known instrumental cumbia-inspired psychedelic rock band. Maybe the UK’s only band of the kind because it’s unique. And they said I could join their band! I’m just looking for a new Latin instrument to learn quickly...

16 May
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Article Articles

Article: How to Improve the Violin Tone (May 2020)

While the violin is considered as one of the most common musical instruments being played, they sometimes leave a bad review because of its sharp and grating-like sound. Aside from checking out good quality violins and properly maintaining it, there are other ways to improve your violin tone. Here are...

16 May
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News

News: Sounds and Colours – 10 Years Anniversary Compilation

In times when culture and music online magazines’ lifespan is shorter than the one of a fly, to enjoy for 10 years the words, sounds, pictures and videos of a reference like Sounds and Colours is a real blessing. Since 2010, the Latin-American focussed website has guided us (and arguably...

15 May
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Album Review

Album Review: Satori Vs. Dr Echo – Dub Defender Sessions [Anicca Records; May 2020]

Back in 2005 reggae enthusiast and experimental artist Steven Jess Borth II founded Satori. Soon after the band’s debut album, Savor Every Moment came out, Borth began collaborating with sound engineer and fellow Californian, Justin De Hart (aka Dr. Echo). Borth is currently based in Denmark while De Hart resides...

14 May
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Album Review: Koichi Sakai feat. Afla Sackey – Wono LP [Olindo Records; March 2020]

Moved by the love for both electronic and West-African music, Koichi Sakai joins forces with Ghana-born percussionist Afla Sackey in a synth infused, hip-wriggling psych take on West-African flavours. Wono is a seven track LP spanning from acid inspired slow house, to meditative kora-based tracks. Reminiscent of the psychedelic atmosphere of...

11 May
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Album Review: The Colours That Rise – Grey Doubt [Rhythm Section INTL; May 2020]

If ever there was one cultural movement that pushed back the frontiers of black identity, it was Afrofuturism. Inspiring generations of musicians to come up with ingenious, edifying narratives, it gave us Drexciya – an advanced underwater civilization built by the offspring of African women thrown off the slave ships...

11 May
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Album Review: The Sorcerers – In Search of The Lost City of The Monkey God [ATA Records; January 2020]

Jazz music has a long and fruitful relationship with the world of cinematography. Since the advent of sound-on-film, enterprising directors have recruited from a pantheon of jazz virtuosos to provide fittingly atmospheric scores for iconic feature films. From the timeless works of Duke Ellington and Henri Mancini to John Coltrane...

11 May
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Album Review

Album Review: Tamikrest – Tamotaït [Glitterbeat Records; March 2020]

Tamikrest is one of the familiar names to gain international success from the Northern areas of the Sahara desert, spanning Mali to Algeria and more. The centuries old nomadic inhabitants of this unforgiving land are the Tuareg, or (Kel) Tamasheq – such as Tamikrest, and they are a displaced people,...

4 May
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Album review: Various – Léve Léve Sao Tomé & Principe Sounds 70s-80s [Les Disques Bongo Joe; January 2020]

Swiss-based label Les Disques Bongo Joe releases another superbly chosen compilation of African sounds. This time, thanks to the expertise and work of DJ Tom B, they take us to the islands of Sao Tomé and Principe, former Portuguese colonies located off the west coast of Africa. According to the...

26 Apr
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Album Review: Simo Lagnawi & Gnawa London – Africa Soyo [February 2020]

In recent decades, the music of the Gnawa has transitioned from a repertoire of ritualistic trance-inducing songs – performed exclusively for the adherents of its night-long healing ceremonies – to a more profane yet equally transfixing professional type of music, played on festival stages and in venues the world over. Due not...

26 Apr
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8.5

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Album Review: The Leonard Simpson Duo – LSD [Jakarta Records; January 2020]

Take one long-time, respected Detroit hip hop rapper (Guilty Simpson) and mix with one awarding-winning producer and multi-instrumentalist from New Zealand (Leonard Charles), and what do you get? The Leonard Simpson Duo who, with a convenient acronym, have synthesised LSD (released on 31st January 2020 on Jakarta Records). The pair...

26 Apr
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Preview: Jamie Rodigan @ October Gallery (Instagram; Friday 24th April 2020)

Contemporary art and music can often go hand-in-hand, and with lockdown presenting a great abundance of live online shows to keep us engaged, why not keep that fire burning too? October Gallery, home of international contemporary art in central London, will be hosting a live interview between its curator, Dee...

22 Apr
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Album Review

Album Review: Derek Gripper – A Year of Swimming [New Cape Records; April 2020]

In keeping with the traditional, classical style guitar techniques, Derek Gripper, once again, respectfully represents the quintessence of a traditional West African kora. Derek utilises his classically trained handiwork in favour of this tradition, of which the album delivers generously. The rhythmical complexities and soulful embellishments akin to the West...

11 Apr
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Album Review: Conjunto Papa Upa – Libre Para Amar [Names You Can Trust; March 2020]

Add some much needed colour to your life with the debut album from Conjunto Papa Upa. Based in Amsterdam, they have gained a reputation in their scene for their vibrant sound. Released on 20th March 2020 through the New York indie label Names You Can Trust, Libre Para Amar is...

11 Apr
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Album Review: Spoek Mathambo – Tales From The Lost Cities [TEKA Records; February 2020]

‘Remember back when good rap was just a cool dance hit / Even though it wasn’t saying shit’, Paris spat on his militant debut The Devil Made Me Do It. Released only three months before Rodney King’s assault, it made an accurate prediction about the future of hip-hop. Try looking...

11 Apr
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Album Review: Jah 9 – Note to Self [VP Records; March 2020]

Janine Cunningham, better known as Jah9, has had a meteoric rise since her first album – New Name – came out in 2013. On Note to Self, her newly-released fourth album, she co-produces the entire project and stamps her authority all over it. Indeed, she has described this new body...

11 Apr
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Preview: Music Across Italy Weekender (Saturday Line-Up)

Preview: Music Across Italy (Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st May 2020)

Album Review: Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice [World Circuit Records; March 2020]

Preview: Global Afrobeat e-Fest (Saturday 23rd May 2020)

Interview: Los Bitchos – Fried Chicken with a Side of Cumbia (May 2020)

Article: How to Improve the Violin Tone (May 2020)

News: Sounds and Colours – 10 Years Anniversary Compilation

Album Review: Satori Vs. Dr Echo – Dub Defender Sessions [Anicca Records; May 2020]

Album Review: Koichi Sakai feat. Afla Sackey – Wono LP [Olindo Records; March 2020]

Album Review: The Colours That Rise – Grey Doubt [Rhythm Section INTL; May 2020]

Album Review: The Sorcerers – In Search of The Lost City of The Monkey God [ATA Records; January 2020]

Album Review: Tamikrest – Tamotaït [Glitterbeat Records; March 2020]

Album review: Various – Léve Léve Sao Tomé & Principe Sounds 70s-80s [Les Disques Bongo Joe; January 2020]

Album Review: Simo Lagnawi & Gnawa London – Africa Soyo [February 2020]

Album Review: The Leonard Simpson Duo – LSD [Jakarta Records; January 2020]

Preview: Jamie Rodigan @ October Gallery (Instagram; Friday 24th April 2020)

Album Review: Derek Gripper – A Year of Swimming [New Cape Records; April 2020]

Album Review: Conjunto Papa Upa – Libre Para Amar [Names You Can Trust; March 2020]

Album Review: Spoek Mathambo – Tales From The Lost Cities [TEKA Records; February 2020]

Album Review: Jah 9 – Note to Self [VP Records; March 2020]

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