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London-based singer and composer Noga Ritter returns to the stage on Friday 20 June with a special live performance at the Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club. The concert marks her first UK date following a three-month trip to Brazil, where she toured and recorded new material. The set will feature unreleased songs inspired by those travels, alongside tracks from her 2023 debut album Ima. Ritter’s music blends Middle Eastern melodies with jazz harmony, West African rhythms, and improvisation. Her performances often […]...
Suffolk’s Waveney Valley may be best known for its rolling landscapes, historic market towns and coastal quiet, but a bold new music series is bringing fresh sounds to its rural heartlands. Launching in June 2025 and running until autumn 2026, Sonic Wave is a forward-thinking programme of live events set across two key venues—The Cut in Halesworth and The Fisher Theatre in Bungay—showcasing a rich spectrum of genre-defying music. From global folk fusions and cinematic electronica to Afro-jazz, activist glitch […]...
The sixth iteration of Cross The Tracks was a soaring spectacle that united genre-blending stalwarts with rising stars of soul, funk, and jazz. A jam-packed Brockwell Park played host to shimmying bodies, brilliant basslines, and ever-intriguing grooves. Though rich in tempo shifts, the event barely missed a beat. And as with all great day fests, momentum built as we went. California outfit The Sinseers treated a jovial pocket of early arrivers to soul-tinged reggae, combining falsetto, whistles, and brooding baritone […]...
The cover of Femi Kuti’s excellent new album Journey Through Life is a collage assembled from photos of Femi, his family, and his steadfast band, The Positive Force. A reflective record, and his first self-produced (a success), it’s personal and political, fiery and fatherly, having been written and recorded while Femi’s daughter faced health problems. Fittingly recorded at the family’s own Legacy Plus Studios, Journey Through Life stays true to the afrobeat blueprint of Femi’s father, but whereas Fela’s tunes […]...
Marseille was restless that evening. A storm had rolled in over the Mediterranean; the kind of late-winter weather that barrels through the heart of the city in gusts of wind and sideways rain, sending flyers skittering down Le Panier’s narrow alleys and rattling its shutters. A few kilometres away, at Dock des Suds, Babel Music XP was making final preparations for the second night of showcases. The tempest outside only amplified the energy within, where global rhythms met local defiance […]...
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