Blending hip-hop, jazz and funk styles with the iconic sounds of New Orleans brass, bring your big brash boogie boots to Rich Mix next week, the Hot 8 Brass Band are in town. Formed by Bennie Pete, Jerome Jones, and Harry Cook in 1995, The Hot 8 not only merged two earlier bands – the Looney Tunes...
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Sons of Kemet are bringing jazz to another level broadening its horizons even further. The London-based quartet, which started to play together in 2011, represents a step-forward for the genre. They indeed decided not simply to add some New Orleans dixie-fragrance, the “post” prefix and unpredictability to their double-drums, sax and tuba...
Soundway Records, which was named by The Guardian as ‘One of the 10 British Labels Defining the Sound of 2014’, will host its first large-scale London party in four years on May 20th. It promises an extensive and diverse line-up with genres ranging from jazz-rock to ‘space funk’, from psychedelic...
There’s a lot going on with Moh! Kouyate. First, his impressive musical history: born in Conakry in Guinea and now based in Paris, the young guitarist has worked with artists Ba Cissoko, Corey Harris and Fatoumata Diawara. Then, whilst remaining engaged with the traditional Mandingo music of West Africa, he...
The exuberant ten-day Alchemy Festival returns to Southbank for its seventh year! Celebrating the historical and cultural ties between the UK and India, it offers an impressive array of activities, from both classical and contemporary performances, workshops, exhibitions and its mouth-watering food market. Its music programme features artists from the...
Next weekend, The Forge will go full Argentinian! In fact, on the 21st and 22nd of May, the Camden venue will host some fine South American musicians and some of the most popular aspects of their music tradition. Guillermo Rozenthuler, Franco Luciani, Cecilia Suarez-Paz, Duettango and Minino Garay will display...
One of the UK’s wildest independent festivals, the BoomTown Fair, is bringing its extravaganza to London this coming Saturday. The event is part of the BoomTown Gatherings, a series of warm-up parties across the UK ahead of the festival that will take place in August in the county of Hampshire....
Since their formation in 2012, Malian band, Songhoy Blues have found themselves very much on the rise. Following a highly successful 2015 marked by their debut album Music in Exile, they will be returning to London on 21st May at the Roundhouse. As a celebration of music ‘from Mali and...
After their sold out show at Scala last year, globally acclaimed Balkan Beat Box returns to London! The New York-based band will perform at the Islington Assembly Hall on 30th April 2016, as the penultimate stop for their European tour this year. With their origins as a blend between the Balkan brass tradition...
Focus Organisation Africa are no strangers to hosting some of the finest names within the afro roots London scene. Having recently invited soukous legend Kanda Bongo Man to grace London’s Rich Mix, as well as Diabel Cissokho, Focus welcome Reggae Roots and African Music to Lewisham’s Fox and Firkin. Sengalese songwriter,...
