Here we are again; ready to jump on board the beautiful ‘Dutch Master’ with our swimmies, flip-flops, swimsuit and party mood. The Tropicalista Thames Boat Party is just about to make its way upstream of the Thames for the second year in row. From Tower Bridge dock and back, it...
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We know that it’s too easy, almost predictable to recommend a Fat Freddy’s Drop gig. Every time the loud, larger than life New Zealand band visits London, they create such hype that you know about it at least a month in advance. But, we can’t get enough of their sound....
Formed in London in 1971, from a varied collection of Caribbean musicians, Cymande have blazed a funk-drenched trail and spread their message of peace and togetherness ever since. After a number of years in which their members devoted their energy to other projects, the band are back on the road,...
We know that, when it comes to music, the people at Focus Organization love to do things good and proper, but this time they went the whole hog. They wanted to pay homage to African and African diaspora musical traditions, all (or most) of them. Since that wouldn’t be possible...
This is enriching music, of sheer quality and what’s more, given the scale of the event in which it will be played, will preserve all its cosiness and genuine intimacy. If you’re looking for an evening to titillate your cultural curiosity and give aromatic flavour to your week, mark down...
You can strip them of their cables, pedals and stage costumes, but you can’t extinguish their innate psychedelic flame. As a matter of fact, despite part of their equipment never reaching London, after being lost at the airport, Baba Zula set Chelsea’s Under the Bridge on fire during their latest...
Instead of foreseeing the future, we asked them to retrace their music past and recall their influences. On the eve of their new EP (Speak to My Soul) launch at Battersea Arts Centre part of Borderless festival, Soothsayers compiled for us a playlist illustrating the roots and development of their sound. “Jazz, reggae,...
Last year, the first edition of Borderless festival, closed the London summer season in style with an amazing line-up throughout a two-month span. 2017 promises to be much the same. Even if it will all happen in Spring and will be less broad considering the number or shows (from 14 to...
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Reggae was born as an attempt at offering a mass of people tired of pretending to be a rational, liberal, colonial society, a new direction for feeling and human relations and it provided the cement for a new socios (partnership.) Inna de Yard (inside of the yard,) made of reggae...
These legends of the African music scene have now been touring extensively since their formation 15 years ago, spreading their socio-political message through a heady blend of roots reggae, fused with funky soukous. Having escaped their war-torn country, fleeing to neighbouring Guinea, Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars have gone from strength...
