Mosaiques Festival, a festival of world culture in an ever-changing format, returns to London this October with its offerings spread over two days: two evening performances, showcasing three acts each, including one free afternoon of entertainment, all in the familiar setting of Bethnal Green’s Rich Mix.
The festival is founded on ideas of openness, multiculturalism and tolerance, themes that come through strongly in this year’s programme. The afro-funk rhythms of Vaudou Game close the first night of music, preceded by Turkish folk-fusion collective, The Odd Beats and “uncategorisable” international folk group Kefaya.
Saturday afternoon, alongside literary and film offerings, then begins with a free set of Laura Cahen’s smooth melodies, whilst the evening sees Afro Pop singer-songwriter Yasmin Kadi and the Algerian-fusion ‘El Mordjane duo’ followed by Parisian electronic duet Acid Arab. Advance tickets can be bought for each day separately or for the entire festival, and under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
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This rare treat transitions between Middle Eastern jazz and folk, blending modern dub sounds with traditional sounds from tablas, dolaks and damburas. Each song being led by the powerful vocals of Elaha Soroor, the album is a journey through Afghanistan and beyond. Kefaya got much praise after their first album,…
Artists: Elaha Soroor , Kefaya
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Artists: Vaudou Game
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Artists: Kefaya
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Artists: Kefaya
Womex is something more than an exhibition: it’s more intense and bonding. That’s probably why, for the second time in the last three years, it happened in Santiago de Compostela. More than 2000 “peregrinos de la musica” (music pilgrims), as Paul Bräuer (Piranha’s Director of Communications) aptly defined them, gathered…
Artists: Acid Arab , Bareto , Calypso Rose , Il Nuovo Bella Ciao , Nomade Orquestra
The second day of Mosaïques Festival, a ‘Festival of World Culture’ based at Rich Mix since 2014 and organised by Arts Canteen and Bureau Export, kicked off on a rainy Saturday night with the catchy Afro-pop rhythms of Yasmin Kadi. Kadi, who fled to the UK at 11 years old…
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Vaudou Game’s Kidayu is a sophomore album of a second coming of vaudou funk, a genre of orchestral music that was popular in West Africa during the 1960s and 70s. Its ten songs signify proudly and loudly as James Brown meant for funk to, inviting its listeners to feel and…
Artists: Vaudou Game
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