Boiler Room and Total Refreshment Centre are uniting at the Barbican Centre on Saturday to tell the story of London’s current jazz scene as it still evolves. Together with thirty local musicians, they will be narrating the untold tale of the rise of the cross-cultural sound of blended Caribbean, reggae,...
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The blues music of the Sahara Desert in Northern Africa has slowly emerged as a popular music genre globally; bands like Terakaft hold the flagpole for the guitar-led cyclical trance style. Having branched off the original Tinariwen collective, Terakaft have released seven albums of Tuareg rebel rock. The Tuaregs live...
Someone once said to me that, whenever they hear ‘SOAS’ in the same sentence as music, they always know to expect weird and funky tunes from around the globe. This is what we can expect from the SOAS Musician Series, which is curated to highlight the different musicians and diverse...
Yasiin Bey, better known by his former performer name Mos Def, is a fundamental pillar of classic hip-hop. Yasiin has been featured on countless records and has produced four studio albums, the latest of these is his 2009 album The Ecstatic, which he will give a full live rendition during...
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An Argentine group who stood out from their peers with their proud feminist stance, Fémina consists of Clara Trucco, Sofia Trucco (both of whom are sisters) and Clara Miglioli. The latter two are the founding members, who originally channelled their American hip-hop influences, but once Clara Trucco joined, they began...
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
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Dr Strangedub (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dub the Bomb) is possibly one of the most inventive albums to date. Each track is an enthusiastic cacophony of global traditions and contemporary fusions without being reduced by genre boundaries or five-minute clichés. Dr Strangedub was a long time...
Radio broadcasting has always been one of the great innovators in the media, especially when it comes to music and the introduction of new sounds to a new audience. For the past 20 years or so, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction has been bringing us sounds and musical flavours of...
Midori Takada and Lafawndah blur the lines between live music performance and devotional ritualistic theatre. The two experimental artists from Japan and London have come together to showcase Ceremonial Blue, a stage production which is built around their 2018 EP Le Renard Bleu. As Takada plays out with handbells, antique...
Drop the curtain on your March with a Balkan, East European and Middle Eastern sound ingestion. On Sunday 31st, Tashkezar will set the Hootananny stage for a luscious feast of tasty notes caught from the Adriatic Sea to the Euphrates. Tunes of the Turkish, Greek, Balkan and Arabic traditions will...
