The Keen brothers (Henry and Oliver) have a special affinity for music. It’s well known that family members have tight...
Everyone knows a ‘Dame Blanche’, but only a few of us are lucky enough to know one who’s an electrifying...
We grew fonder and fonder of Transparent Water, the fourhanded album released by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita in February,...
Ariwo‘s eponymous EP may only be four tracks long, but the length of the tracks gives it more of an...
Contemporary Cuban music is currently enjoying a high profile with exciting, forward-looking releases from Dayme Arocena and Gilles Peterson’s Havana...
Transparent Water, a meeting between Cuban jazz pianist Omar Sosa and versatile Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita, is a delightful...
As soon as you arrived at The O2 you started to feel as though you were in a world-class Latin...
Australian beatmaker and DJ, Jake Savona’s latest album Havana Meets Kingston seeks to unite two powerful and distinct musical islands...
This year, we only got a glimpse of the music bonanza offered by the Womad UK weekend. Our stay in...
Event Review: Manana//Cuba – A Night of Afro-Cuban Collaborations @ Barbican (London, 26th May 2017)
That euphoric swelling an artist feels when they connect with their audience is what rumba musicians describe as ‘Manana’. The...
The concept behind the AfroCubism collaboration is to celebrate and unite some of Mali and Cuba’s hottest musicians and to...
Caribbean societies are often subject to a certain gaze, in search of exotica. The cultural region’s best musicians are those...