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Every April, Tallinn becomes a place where the question “what is music for?” gets asked in a hotel conference room at 10am and answered on a warehouse stage at 2am. Tallinn Music Week does not separate those two moments. The festival has been running since 2009 on the understanding that the industry panels and the live stages need each other, that you cannot talk about creative survival in the abstract when a Kinshasa band is three streets away playing instruments […]...
By the time La Linea Festival closes in London on Wednesday 6th May, someone will have danced through La Yegros’ nu-cumbia at Fox & Firkin in Lewisham until 3AM, someone else will have sat in pin-drop silence at Union Chapel as Silvana Estrada holds the room, another crowd will have caught Renata Flores bringing Quechua and Andean reference points into trap and pop at The Jazz Cafe, and a room full of children will have learned bullerengue call-and-response in the […]...
Andes Collective & Secret Gem lands at Fox & Firkin in Lewisham on Friday with Secret Gem Session Vol. 2, drawing together three singer-songwriters with roots in Spain and Latin America for a bill that moves across R&B, cumbia, Latin pop and reggaetón. The three sets lean in different directions. Miss Blanche, a Spanish-Swiss singer-songwriter based in London, brings bilingual R&B shaped by jazz, funk and hip-hop; British-Latina artist JSCA writes about migration and identity in Spanglish, her songs moving between […]...
In 2021, Andrea Cota pressed record on a portable recorder somewhere on Lake Titicaca, among the floating reed islands of the Uros people. Then he flew back to Rome, dropped the files into a folder, and left them there for four years. He was not waiting for inspiration. He just was not ready. At first, the recordings belonged to the trip. Later, they started to carry something more personal. Cota had first travelled to the Andes almost twenty years earlier, […]...
A few days before Başka Bahar / Another Spring came out, Umut Adan was speaking to us from Istanbul about a record that had already lived several lives before reaching the public. It had travelled through five years of work, across rooms in Istanbul, Turin and Brussels, through rehearsals, tours, production sessions and long stretches of selection, until the idea behind it finally held. What emerges now on Six Degrees Records is an album built as a collective, political project […]...
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