As part of David Byrne’s ‘Meltdown’ festival, one of flamenco’s leading lights, Estrella Morente, opened her concert standing solo on an atmospherically lit stage. Within minutes her gypsy-esque voice, plaintiff and emotive had the audience gripped. Morente’s heritage is drenched with Flamenco gold. Her grandfather was the guitarist Montoyita, and...
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Hailing from Guinea, West Africa, master kora player N’Faly Kouyate took to Camden’s Jazz Café stage last night. Reminiscent of a prize-fighter and resplendent in a white robe he gave the audience a highly energised set of his own brand of fusion, a style he refers to as Afrotronix. Like...
In the dark and dingy environment of Islington’s Electrowerkz Mali’s ngoni master Bassekou Kouyaté and his family band Ngoni Ba took to the stage to dazzle the audience with their dexterity and musical traditions. For the uninitiated, the Ngoni is the African precursor of the banjo and guitar dating back...
Last night at Union Chapel I was introduced to the sound of Jorge Drexler. How I had managed to go so long without hearing the name, let alone his music, will remain a mystery. Drexler, a Uruguayan troubadour with bags of charisma, sensitively fuses together a concoction of traditional Uruguayan...
