Preview: WF10 – 10 Years of Wormfood @ Electric Brixton (London; 13th January 2018)
Wormfood is an events company that sets out to align London domiciled African music with the dance floor energy of club nights. Set up in 2007, they have injected energy into many UK festivals and London’s wide array of world music venues.
Saxophonist and composer Shabaka Hutchings will indulge us with his headline act, which fuses cosmic imagery whilst allowing the atmosphere to twist and turn with his improvisational Afrobeat jazz sounds. All of the acts will have you channelling tunnels through crowds, and twisting and turning in time to the compulsive syncopated rhythms.
In the words of Wormfood: “We’re all going to be worm food someday, so we might as well wriggle while we can!”
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