‘La Nena’ (little girl) is the nickname that she has carried around the world since adolescence. However, even though she still has a girlish air, Dominique ‘Dom’ Pinto moves around the music scene like a seasoned actress. Her experience is enviable, and she could easily be described as a ‘musician...
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Songhoy Blues are a music mystery: the more they become popular and people listen to their music, the more they defy any definition. There are those who say that the four musicians from Gao are the last true desert blues interpreters, then there are critics affirming that they sound psychedelic,...
Just a few weeks ahead of his 73rd birthday, the King Of Latin Soul, Joe Bataan, played a packed out Ronnie Scott’s, treating the patrons to a large portion of his back catalogue, ably supported by one of the UK’s leading funk and soul outfits, Push. From the highly funky...
They’re little more than twenty years old, released just one album and their career debuted only two years ago… But they’ve already turned the music world upside-down! Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz, better known as Ibeyi, will soon turn Koko, London and the U.K.upside-down too with their forthcoming tour, which will see...
If today we can talk about a Kinshasa sound and the Congolese capital is a driving force of the world music scene, a huge amount of merit goes to Coco (Ngambali) and Theo (Nsituvuidi). The two musicians, whom started playing together more than fifteen years ago in Staff Benda Bilili, are still...
A sense of community is a rare find in London – which is why Village Underground‘s monthly reggae residency with Channel One is always a pleasure. But their most recent show with digital dub pioneer Mad Professor was something to be particularly cherished. Despite the fact it was a Sunday...
Let us be a little dreamy and idealistic here…if the whole world would behave like Världens Band, we’d all live in a much better planet. The gig that we recently enjoyed at Rich Mix, which was also the baptism of Världens Band U.K. Tour, was indeed a smooth show of...
Few months ago, when we interviewed the legendary South African music regents Mahotella Queens after their gig at WOMAD, they revealed something to us. “We recently played in London with a band called Count Drachma: three white guys playing Zulu music. They were playing our music and they were white!...
It’s not every day that you witness one of the most famous libraries in the UK (and one of the most important cultural centres in London) being transformed into the Shrine, the mythical Lagos club from which the legendary figure of Fela Kuti emerged in the late 1970s – yet...
Playing their very own brand of Gypsy, Balkan Funk, Chavo, are back with a bang and a brand new record. Don’t Wake The Dead is out now on Batov Records and we caught up with the band at their recent album launch at Passing Clouds to talk about where they’ve...
