For anyone who doesn’t know his name, Gilles Peterson could be described as the Christopher Colombus of New World music. He is a DJ and broadcaster who has continually dedicated his career to the exploration and discovery of unearthed music from distant corners of the world’s underground scene. Ego-free and...
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This month’s playlist is a bit different from the ones you’re used you to: no style or genre introduction. Instead, we chose to celebrate 2016 and wanted to do it in “our way”. We picked some of the best tunes we have listened to throughout the year and asked our contributors to...
Womex is something more than an exhibition: it’s more intense and bonding. That’s probably why, for the second time in the last three years, it happened in Santiago de Compostela. More than 2000 “peregrinos de la musica” (music pilgrims), as Paul Bräuer (Piranha’s Director of Communications) aptly defined them, gathered...
The second day of Mosaïques Festival, a ‘Festival of World Culture’ based at Rich Mix since 2014 and organised by Arts Canteen and Bureau Export, kicked off on a rainy Saturday night with the catchy Afro-pop rhythms of Yasmin Kadi. Kadi, who fled to the UK at 11 years old...
Mosaiques Festival, a festival of world culture in an ever-changing format, returns to London this October with its offerings spread over two days: two evening performances, showcasing three acts each, including one free afternoon of entertainment, all in the familiar setting of Bethnal Green’s Rich Mix. The festival is founded...
Rich Mix will let your ears wander the world world this Autumn, thanks to a two-month-long festival. From the 1st of September starting with the only London based pizzica band Amaraterra to the 9th of November with Chango Spasiuk, the “new hero of Argentinian chamamé”, the Shoreditch venue will host an...
