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For the forthcoming month of June one of the most alluring music events of the year will take place once again at Jazz Café. It is a chance to see two incredible acts entwining threads of music legacies; incomparable groove and afro-funk perfectionism are the forces opening the doors on...
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Alongside Fela Kuti and Africa ‘70, Ali Farka Touré and Angélique Kidjo, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo are one of West Africa’s most cherished and ground-breaking acts. The afro-funk outfit, who formed fifty years ago in Benin, will play their first ever Manchester show at Band on the Wall on 21st June. The...
21/06/2018 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Orchestre Poly-Rythmo live at Band on the Wall Band On The Wall, Manchester
15/06/2018 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO + MINYANTA Jazz Cafe, London
When you talk with Samy Ben Redjeb, future and past become synonyms and mingle with each other. The founder of the German label, Analog Africa, has brought vintage sounds coming from all over the African Continent to the present and set free their cutting-edge characters. That’s why, when you ask him...
Originally formed in 1966 in the coastal town of Cotonou, Orchestre Poly Rythmo became one of Benin’s finest exports and, consequently, a flagbearer for African music. With their exuberant brand of afro-funk and party fuelled soukous, their sound and their on-stage energy defy their advancing years. Thanks in no small...
For over 40 years, Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou have been producing their own indomitable brand of voodoo-infused Afro-beat, heavily tinged with highlife and soukous accents. Having disbanded sometime in the mid-eighties, like many other long lost doyens of tribal African dance music, they were rediscovered in the early part...
What Colour Is Jazz? @ Chats Palace (London; Saturday 23rd February 2019)
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