09/12/2020 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Side Partition - presented by Tuned In London and London International Arts Festival Stanley Halls, London
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Electronic music has always been a soft target for the purists. To use an ex-colleague (jazz guitarist, quelle surprise)’s metaphor, the fundamental difference between a handcrafted armchair and a cheap mass-produced imitation is the latter’s lack of the most universal characteristic known as ‘human element’. Or a human error –...
A bit of jazz, tastes of psychedelia, crumbs of folk, spoken word snippets, traces of dub, and drops of blues, all enhanced by the charming sound of the sitar, electronic arrangements and her smooth voice: Shama Rahman’s music is an eclectic and well-tuned harmony of styles and influences, moving from...

Preview: Kefaya & Elaha Soroor + The Scorpios @ The Jazz Cafe (London; Wednesday 12th February 2020)
We first met Kefaya back in 2015, and we grew fonder and fonder of the London-based band thanks to their full-bodied sound blending Mediterranean and South Asian spicy flavours with elegant and jazzy arrangements. Still, when they released, together with Elaha Soroor, Songs of Our Mothers in September last year,...