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In 2016, MANANA became Cuba’s first international electronic music festival, pairing contemporary club producers with Afro-Cuban folkloric musicians in Santiago de Cuba over two weeks of residency and performance. A decade on, the original team reunites for a one-off Bank Holiday takeover hosted by Jaminaround. The event takes place at the Cranborne Earthouse, a 250-capacity reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse at the Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset. Lit by fire and lamplight, it seats audiences on wooden benches beneath an earth […]...
Every Bandcamp Friday matters. Some matter more than others… This Friday, more than thirty-five independent record labels are turning theirs into a lifeline for Lebanon, a country where a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on 16 April but means very little on the ground. The Israeli military offensive that began in March has displaced over 1.2 million people, and strikes and exchanges of fire have continued throughout the truce, the IDF’s own chief of staff said this week that there […]...
Halfway through Wednesday’s set, Marlon Williams sent the Yarra Benders offstage and sat down at the piano alone. What followed was ‘Kāhore He Manu E‘, the tender Māori-language ballad that features Lorde on record, stripped to just his voice and the keys. He filled both parts himself. The room didn’t need anything else. That moment was the centre of a night London’s Kiwi expat community had been waiting for, and they weren’t the only ones. Williams is a singer-songwriter from […]...
Congolese-British collective KDN (Kongo Dia Ntotila) have been quiet for a while. That ends on Saturday 23rd May when they return to their Dalston stronghold, The Jago, to premiere their upcoming album, Moving Fire, in its entirety: front to back, months before it’s out. Led by the Kinshasa-born bassist Mulele Matondo and jazz guitarist John Kelly, the ensemble fuses the intricate sebene patterns that power DRC dance music into the heart of London jazz and dares both sides to keep up. […]...
Marseille was voting, the far right was closing in, and Babel Music XP moved through a city with all of that already in the air. This year’s edition ran from 19 to 21 March, with the mayoral runoff due the next day, so the festival never felt detached from the week around it. Marseille did not feel like a neutral host either. Posters, canvassing, impromptu sit-ins and demos, pettier but heated bar talks: the public mood had politics in it, and […]...
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