Broken beats and brass accents start playing in anticipation of the return of Gilles Peterson’s annual Worldwide Awards. A venerable scout for the tastiest emerging global music, label and radio owner Peterson never fails to satisfy the palettes of the ticketed audience with a mix of his best picks of...
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Still cerebrating how to celebrate the last night of 2018 and the first morning of 2019? We are here to help with a selection of some of the best NYE parties happening in London and the rest of UK. Whether you’re willing to spend the 31st December dancing, revelling in...
An evening hosted by Flying Lotus and his consequent record label: Brainfeeder. The event is said to be a brand new 3D experience alongside Flying Lotus’s live electronic composition and producing. That wasn’t big enough for Lotus, so they added the best variety from the label’s own: experimental funk jazz...
Lisbon has a new summer festival exploding onto its already happening music and creative scene, adding to the vibrant and unique energy that the city of seven hills and stunning views already has. The team from Soundcrash are bringing a multitude of global talent for a weekend of good music...
The sun is shining as people from all corners of the globe – including artists from six continents and fifty countries – come together for this year’s eclectic celebration of world music and dance culture. Families, friends and couples of all ages erect tents, blow up mattresses and boil water...
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Colours rise from dark contours as a London jazz renaissance takes form. Feeling both early and late, We Out Here captures the tones of this evolving shape. Tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings directs the way, bringing together a collection of his most in-demand friends on the new-jazz scene. Familiar names such...
In 2017 the British jazz scene started taking centre stage and 2018 is likely to see the genre become the rising star of contemporary music with a long-awaited hip-pumping invasion. Brownswood Recordings have brought together their hotly tipped acts from a three-day recording session which produced We Out Here. The...
Relentlessly spinning; never still. Gilles Peterson always has one eye on the future: a taste-making muso of the highest form with an ear for the best new beats and sounds. Every year he hosts the annual Worldwide Awards which celebrates the best in underground music. He’ll be back at Koko in...
Savvy and oozing self-deprecating charm, Zara McFarlane is one of Gilles Peterson’s freshest jazz vocalists who has been signed with Brownswood Recordings since 2011. She has released two albums, won ‘Best Jazz Act’ at the MOBOs and is shortly due to publish her third release on 26th September. The latest...
Six days and six gigs to understand the present and foresee the future of global music. That’s what will happen between the 15th and 20th of May at Rich Mix, when Serious will take charge of the venue’s main space and present the 2017 edition of Serious Space Shoreditch. Throughout...
