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Yeison Landero still plays cumbia in the same way he learnt it as a child in San Jacinto, a small town in Colombia’s Montes de María where the diatonic accordion became central to local dance music. His grandfather Andrés Landero listened to the gaita ensembles and drum groups of the region and began adapting their repertoire. He took their rhythms, their melodies and their song structures and rewrote them for accordion. The result became known as cumbia de acordeón, and […]...
Event Preview: Brick Lane Jazz Festival 2026 (London; Thursday 23rd April to Sunday 26th April 2026)
Brick Lane Jazz Festival returns for its fifth edition across 12 stages in Brick Lane and Shoreditch, keeping the walkable format that lets you move between the Old Truman Brewery, Village Underground, Ninety One Living Room, Rich Mix and 93 Feet East in minutes. New for 2026 is a daytime conference programme running through the centre of the weekend, adding focused talks, workshops and mentoring sessions to a festival that has grown from four venues in 2022 into a 12-space […]...
Roberta Gulisano‘s songs begin in Sicilian dialect and in the daily life of a small town in the province of Enna, where folk tales, village poetry and family memories still shape how people speak to one another. Her latest EP A Ccu Apparteni?, released in 2024 by Mhodí Music Company, takes that local world and rewrites it from the vantage point of a migrant who has spent nine years in England, asking what remains when a person carries one culture […]...
Alum Alu formed in Riga, Latvia in 2020, when borders slammed shut and movement gave way to whatever could be built locally. The first edition of Riga Music Week offered a neat marker of how far they have travelled since then. On the festival’s cold, wet November opening night they set alight the Outdoor Folk stage, driving Hungarian Romani tunes and Balkan folk songs through Latvian lyrics at near-punk speed until a crowd that had arrived hunched in raincoats and […]...
AMARI is a young archipelago of rural artist residencies that has recently emerged in the Mediterranean Sea: Meraki Testa Dell’Acqua near Noto in Sicily, The Open Nest in Vavla, Cyprus, and Stonefish on Vis Island, Croatia. Co-founded in 2025 by a working group driven by Mark Dieler, Lefteris Moumtzis, Yves Taquet, Liese Kignma and Lena Ingwersen, the network first took shape among creatives and practitioners from Cyprus, Croatia, Italy, Tunisia, Palestine, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Latvia, the UK and Greece. […]...
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