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In recent decades, the music of the Gnawa has transitioned from a repertoire of ritualistic trance-inducing songs – performed exclusively for the adherents of its night-long healing ceremonies – to a more profane yet equally transfixing professional type of music, played on festival stages and in venues the world over. Due not...
Tag Archives: North African
‘Berlin, the city where everything works’, said no Berliner ever. Having witnessed the world-famous German technology out of action and run through the crowded Gneisenaustrasse U-Bahn exit (the one not closed due to construction), we scraped through the front doors of Passionskirche and found empty seats. Ironically enough, around here...
3MA are somewhat a pan-African power group formed of Ballaké Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi and Rajery in which they interweave three different musical traditions, each ancient, from various parts of Africa. Ballaké Sissoko represents Mali by playing the traditional West African harp – the kora – of which the playing...
Starting off at Rich Mix on Thursday the 5th of March, with the new expression of the Arab Sound, AWAN Festival will enlighten the London’s March nights with a calendar of outstanding gigs, performances, shows and workshops fully focussed on Arabic women artists and their work. If you are a...
We are excited to host a new monthly section on Rhythm Passport curated by the nice people, travellers by heart and music lovers at Hit The Road Music Studio. In 2018, they hit the road from Poland to Morocco on their “magic bus”, a fully equipped caravan with professional studio recording...
Our “end-of-the-year” lists are not a way to rule what has been good or bad in the previous 365 music days. In fact, since we are music lovers at heart, we love to share and support the albums we like, that hold particular meanings to us or have been more...
An exciting new regular evening is debuting on the global music scene this November in the reasonably new and quirky music venue, The Post Bar – a two-minute walk from Seven Sisters. The philanthropic event aims to highlight the ongoing issues surrounding migrants and refugees, and raises money for charities...
Grammy Award winning, yes, but more than that; Tinariwen represent a music so powerful and so passionate, that it’s managed to reach all corners of the globe, from a previously unvisited (by the West) musical landscape that is the Sahara Desert in North Africa. Blues, funk and rock, ongoing trans-like...
Preview: Alsarah and the Nubatones / Juliana Yazbeck @ ULU Live London (London: Friday 25th October)
On 25th October, MARSM UK will present a night of elegant vibes and honeyed grooves. After all, that’s what happens when you programme a line-up with two acts playing quality Middle Eastern and North African influenced notes. Alsarah & the Nubatones and Juliana Yazbeck’s music is easy to dance to but...
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...