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Different Trains 1947 is the closing performance of the Transcender Festival, happening at the Barbican Centre from September 28th to October 1st, bringing “ecstatic and devotional music from around the world”. Taking inspiration from Steve Reich’s Different Trains, an audiovisual piece documenting train journeys in the US and Europe at...
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On Thursday, August 17th, three musical legends come together to create something beautiful at Camden’s Jazz Cafe. Arguably the most recognisable name of the three is Shabaka Hutchings, one of Britain’s most prolific saxophonists who you might know from his work with Sons of Kemet, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Comet...
Join M.I.A. at the iconic Southbank Centre from 8-19 June for this year’s Meltdown Festival, which she has carefully curated for your aural and visual pleasure! This year is the 24th edition of the Meltdown Festival, which features a different, respected musician at the helm each year, showcasing their influences...
Highlight of the 2016 edition of the London International Arts Festival (LIAF), and one of the most popular and expressive MCs of the UK music scene, Soom T recently brought her urban sound, provocative lyrics, resolute character and Indian background to London’s Rich Mix, for an incendiary gig. We had...
With six albums and a nomination for the Mercury Prize on her resumé, Susheela Raman, British-Indian musician, raised between Australia and London, has been captivating audiences around the world with her mesmerising voice and powerful performances since 2001. Ahead of her performance on 1st February at the Roundhouse in London,...
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Once upon a time, in a world no larger than a big ball, political music was often not as artistically ambitious as visual art or poetry. It made for great music by names like Bob Dylan or Jose Afonso instead of graffiti names like SAMO, composing and performing art pretty...
Earlier in September, the UK’s electrifying Bollywood Brass Band released their latest album, Carnatic Connections, which is an exciting collaboration with violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, that ventures away from Northern Bollywood and downwards into South Indian film music. A couple of weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with the band’s...
Ok, so they probably haven’t reinvented the Bollywood imaginary… actually, how can you possibly think about reinventing it? But they surely gave it a twist, transporting the characteristic Indian style under Big Ben. Bollywood Brass Band are something more than a tribute band or devoted interpreters of a tradition: they...
When it was founded sixteen years ago, Club To Club aimed to be an electronic music festival – the electronic music festival Italy still didn’t have. Today, it has dropped the ‘electronic’ label, broadened its musical scope, widened its geographical horizon and chosen to describe itself as an ‘International Festival...
We interviewed them, reviewed, previewed and also included one of their songs in our monthly compilation… and no, they don’t pay us. Jokes apart, we simply love their sound, attitude and inclusive and internationalist credo harboured in their music. For this reason, we will also be at Rich Mix on...