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Ciranda Elétrica lands at Brixtonia Lounge on Saturday 22 November, turning 35 Brixton Station Road into a North Brazilian and cumbia soundclash from 8PM till late. The name reaches back to ciranda, a circle dance and song tradition from Brazil’s north eastern coast, where hand drums, caixas and shakers drive a shared step and call and response vocals keep everyone moving in the same loop. In Brixton that spirit becomes a tight, low ceiling room, a floor that packs in […]...
Nusantara Beat didn’t form around a manifesto. It began with a shared sense of curiosity: six musicians in Amsterdam reaching for half-remembered melodies, family songs, and traces of Indonesian heritage, determined to turn them into something alive. The band took shape during lockdown, but its story runs deeper: into Dutch-Indonesian homes where cassette tapes, family recordings, and quiet rituals carried sounds from another place, shaping identity long before anyone spoke about it. We met the group twice this year — […]...
Being used to seeing João Selva with the usual traces of touring life, we noticed straight away that WOMEX in Tampere showed a different side of him. Inside Tampere Hall, in the middle of the early afternoon rush, surrounded by musicians carrying pre-show eagerness and nerves, meeting participants moving between appointments, conference panellists and attendees, interviewers and interviewees, he was wearing mentor clothes, seated at one of the speed-meeting tables and speaking with a young artist who had booked time […]...
In a sure tonic for the winter blues Oumou Sangaré graces the stage of The Queen Elizabeth Hall this November in a one off show curated by the Aga Khan Music Awards and EFG London Jazz Festival. With symphonic support from The BBC Concert Orchestra, expect exquisite vocals and pentatonic perfection from Malian musical royalty. Opening the gig are the finalists of this year’s awards which fittingly celebrate the preservation and revitalisation of musical heritage – something Oumou has been […]...
Twenty years on, it feels right to call Movimientos family. What began in 2005 as a small gathering of friends sharing Latin rhythms in London has grown into one of the city’s most vital cultural lifelines: a movement that’s carried the stories, struggles and celebrations of Latin America across dance floors, stages and generations. On Saturday 8 November, at Hackney Bridge, the crew marks two decades of community, solidarity and unstoppable rhythm with the kind of night only they can […]...
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