Earlier in September, the UK’s electrifying Bollywood Brass Band released their latest album, Carnatic Connections, which is an exciting collaboration with violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, that ventures away from Northern Bollywood and downwards into South Indian film music. A couple of weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with the band’s...
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Ok, so they probably haven’t reinvented the Bollywood imaginary… actually, how can you possibly think about reinventing it? But they surely gave it a twist, transporting the characteristic Indian style under Big Ben. Bollywood Brass Band are something more than a tribute band or devoted interpreters of a tradition: they...
When it was founded sixteen years ago, Club To Club aimed to be an electronic music festival – the electronic music festival Italy still didn’t have. Today, it has dropped the ‘electronic’ label, broadened its musical scope, widened its geographical horizon and chosen to describe itself as an ‘International Festival...
We interviewed them, reviewed, previewed and also included one of their songs in our monthly compilation… and no, they don’t pay us. Jokes apart, we simply love their sound, attitude and inclusive and internationalist credo harboured in their music. For this reason, we will also be at Rich Mix on...
12 hours of enriching music, engaging dances and diverse traditions. Next Sunday, from noon to midnight, Open the Gate and Rich Mix will give life to a music marathon hosting musicians coming from Japan to Trinidad, India to Brazil and playing all sorts of styles from reggae to enka, hip-hop...
Kefaya is a concept which goes far beyond the Egyptian word meaning “enough”. If you followed the events during the Egyptian revolution of 2011, you already know that it is also the name of the protest movement which went on to spark the revolutionary fire, but Kefaya was there before...
Club To Club used to be known by music lovers, insiders and the press as the best electronic festival in Italy. Now at its sixteenth edition, it has earned the praises of international giants such as The New York Times, Electronic Beats, Pitchfork and Resident Advisor, the latter calling it...
Every autumn since 2012, the London International Arts Festival (LIAF) does its best to offer audiences a different perspective of the contemporary London cultural scene. And every autumn since 2012 it succeeds. Since we like to support our claims with facts, just have a look at the Festival calendar, paying...
