There’s always a good reason to pick up the phone and have a chat with Seckou Keita. That’s why every couple of years, we feel the need to reach him to get an update on his countless projects and to “brace ourselves” for the ones to come. If you add...
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Everyone loves kora. As soon as some experienced fingertips juggle through the 21 strings of the West African instrument, you can’t help but close your eyes and dream (or daydream). On 18th August, in Camden, get ready to spend a few hours doing just that, when two remarkable kora players...
18/08/2019 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Seckou Keita + Jally Kebba Susso The Jazz Cafe, London
30/05/2019 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm AKA Trio (Antonio Forcione, Seckou Keita and Adriano Adewale) Kings Place, London
There are not many musical happenings which ooze summer from every pore like Campfire Club‘s heartening gigs. Organised by The Nest Collective, the most welcoming music series of the season is ready to build a few fire pits around South and East London and call together hundreds of folks, world...
01/06/2018 - 29/09/2018 7:00 pm - 6:30 pm Campfire Club 2018
12:00 am Campfire Club 2018
We grew fonder and fonder of Transparent Water, the fourhanded album released by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita in February, blending together Caribbean and West African traditions with musical spices coming from all over the world. So, after having reviewed the album, interviewed Seckou Keita and previewed the ongoing UK...
There’s no doubt that Senegalese and Cuban music are threaded together, being intertwined by an entangled knot that goes back generations. There’s no better evidence of this than in the two countries’ music. It’s not by chance that one of the best albums released in 2017 is Transparent Water: a...
