Event Review: WOMAD Festival @ Charlton Park (Malmesbury, Wiltshire; Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st July 2022)

After a 3 year wait, and returning on its 40th anniversary, to say there was anticipation around Womad ’22 would be a vast understatement. The line-up played it safe in some respects, with old favourites looming large; but there were bright spots of new musical energy, hungrily met by pent-up…

Artists: Al-Qasar , Alostmen , Bab L’Bluz , Bcuc , Comorian , Electric Jalaba , Fantastic Negrito , Folknery , Fulu Miziki Kolektiv , Gwenifer Raymond , K.o.g. , Osibisa , Peter Gabriel , Simo Lagnawi , Son Rompe Pera , The Mauskovic Dance Band , Yazz Ahmed

Event Preview: WOMAD Festival @ Charlton Park (Malmesbury, Wiltshire; Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st July 2022)

A world of music, arts and dance awaits at the world’s festival this year. Charlton Park will once again be visited by artists and performers from round the globe, for an extra special celebration in honour of the festival’s 40th birthday. Six stages will host over 150 acts across the…

Artists: Abel Selaocoe , Angelique Kidjo , Bab L’Bluz , Barmer Boys , Electric Jalaba , Fantastic Negrito , Fatoumata Diawara , Fulu Miziki , Gilberto Gil , Greentea Peng , Joji Hirota , Kae Tempest , Nihiloxica , Nitin Sawhney , Pauline Black , Son Rompe Pera , Taxi Kebab , The Flaming Lips , The Mauskovic Dance Band

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #516 – Top 21 of 2021

It’s the first week of the year so time to treat you to the best albums of 2021. A global trip that will take you from Colombian Pacific tot a refugee camp in the desert, from adrenaline fuelled jazz to the Beastie Boys making cumbia in the Congo. Ethiogrooves, Latin…

Artists: Ancient Astronauts , Azmari , Bejuco , Cumbiasound , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Echoes of Zoo , Electric Jalaba , Gaspar Z'África , Jallanzo , Jumbo System , Kasai Allstars , Khalab , Lee Fry , Luka Afrobeat Orquesta , M'berra Ensemble , Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble , Oghene Kologbo , Ogun Afrobeat , Oliver Nayoka , Olumo Soundz , Rumble , The Anthronauts , The Selenites Band , Vito-Lalinga

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #490 – Transformation & Cure

Pancada Motor: Transformação e Cura is the 7th album by DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar from São Paulo (Brazil), a breed of Brazilian field recordings made between 2007 and 2019 and recordings with traditional and modern musicians during trips around the world. Calling for “Transformation and Cure”: the…

Artists: Addis Black Mamba , Basokin , Bejuco , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Electric Jalaba , Jumbo System , Kasai Allstars , La Fuerza Mayor , Las Cuatro Monedas , Loopcinico , Los Kings , Montparnasse Musique , Zafîf

Playlist: London Remixed Virtual Festival 2021 (Online; Friday 26th & Saturday 27th March 2021)

This might be one of the rare – actually extremely rare – occasions when you can forget to damn the lockdowns and Covid-19 regulations and instead bless the fact that you’re going to spend another weekend at home, possibly staring at a screen and having to turn your living room/bedroom…

Artists: Amrit Kaur , Bcuc , Bobby Friction Fake News Orchestra , Brass Rave Unit , Buffo's Wake , Chris Tofu , Dana Immanuel , Dengue Dengue Dengue , El Leopardo , Electric Jalaba , Eternal Taal , Frente Cumbiero , Full Tilt Collective , Ghetto Funk Allstars , Horsepowar , K.o.g. , Khanvict , La Perla , Ngaio , Panther Panther , Prabh Deep , Shia Rak , Telukah

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #489 – Afro-Colombian Take-Over

Plenty of Afro-Colombian music on Radio Mukambo this week. Starting with the marimba and percussion driven Batea, debut album by Bejuco, a powerful band rooted in the Colombian Pacific with a fresh and contemporary feeling. We also listen to a new single by Abelardo Carbono x Meridian Brothers and a…

Artists: Abelardo Carbono , Bejuco , Dj Kobayashi , DJ Tudo , Eek A Mouse , Electric Jalaba , Gabacho Maroc , Gansan , Irie Ites , Mario y sus Diamantes , NOMÅGIK , Shiran , Sir Jean and NMB Afrobeat Experience , Son Palenque

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #488 – Grabbed by the Groove

“El Hal” is the feeling that comes when playing music, forgetting where you are. The feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove. A title that says it all about the third album from the London/Moroccan collective Electric Jalaba around Moroccan-born singer and guimbri player Simo…

Artists: Bejuco , David Cairol , Echoes of Zoo , Eek A Mouse , Electric Jalaba , Kady Diarra , La Fuerza Mayor , Osayomore Joseph And The Creative Seven , Punta Diamante , Son Palenque