The EFG London Jazz Festival will once again deliver a range of music that crosses continents, genres and generations. Its listings will spread across the entire city and it’s remarkable that so much can be fitted into just one week. All this makes it impossible to review the whole festival...
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It’s that party time of year again: tastemakers have their eyes on the city as London gets glammed up to show off its best talent for the EFG London Jazz Festival. Camilla George is one of the emerging musicians attracting the attention of the music world, who are taking an...
It doesn’t happen every day that we have the opportunity to enjoy sounds coming from Korea. Luckily, once a year, Serious and the Korean Cultural Centre fill venues like Southbank Centre, Kings Place and Rich Mix with East Asian notes, offering to London the K-Music Festival. During seven shows scattered...
DakhaBrakha means ‘give/take’ in the old Ukrainian language. And it’s true, we see a real ‘give and take’ with the band’s influences – taking Ukrainian folk music and putting their own unique and theatrical spin on it. Often accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, their music...
Are you ready for a full-immersion in K-sounds? For the fifth year in a row, Serious and the Korean Cultural Centre are bringing to London the K-music Festival with its full supply of East Asian notes. Check out our playlist and have a sneak peek and listen to what you can enjoy...
I interviewed Yazz Ahmed; the established face of contemporary fusion jazz. Since releasing her debut album in 2011 (Finding My Way Home), Yazz Ahmed has been conquering the scene with her original blend of Arabian maqam scales played on a unique quarter-toned flugelhorn. As well as this, Yazz’s long list...
Yazz Ahmed, who is of both Bahraini and British origin, has been credited with changing the face of UK contemporary jazz with her original mix of incredible compositions, which fuse her Arabian musical culture with global jazz, all through immense skill on trumpet and flugelhorn, playing both in an almost...
Les Amazones d’Afrique represent the most powerful, fearless and bold female voices in all of West Africa; named a super-group, this group hosts multiple virtuosic musicians, each with majorly successful careers. In 2017 the group came together to release their debut République Amazone, a staple of modern-day feminism at its...
An opportunity to experience the history of global folklore intertwined with the soul of nature sounds. Sam Lee is one of Europe’s pioneers in this regard, confirmed by his most recent album The Fade in Time. Lee’s ethos extends and challenges the borders of what is folklore. Including Lee’s field...
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...
What Colour Is Jazz? @ Chats Palace (London; Saturday 23rd February 2019)
Gipsydelica @ Hootananny (Sunday 24th February) - FREE ENTRY -