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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 […]...
It’s just gone midnight in Brixton, and Ana Lua Caiano is standing behind the merchandise desk at Hootananny, having just signed the last copies of her debut LP, Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado. She glows with post-show adrenaline, still half inside the world she’s just built on stage. Earlier in the evening, the Swiss-Guatemalan artist Baby Volcano had opened the double-bill — part of this year’s La Linea Festival — with a high-voltage set full of theatrical energy and bilingual intensity. […]...
Each spring, for five brisk days, Tallinn Music Week turns the Estonian capital into a magnet of international cultural exchange and musical cross-pollination. Amid the shifting line-up of genre-defying performances and industry gatherings, Hanover’s Malikì World Orchestra slot in seamlessly. Their music follows its own internal logic. Built on movement, collaboration and the understanding that cultural dialogue is not a backdrop to creativity but its core, Malikì’s sound speaks many languages, often at once. Their invitation to perform on the […]...
Now in its fourth year, Brick Lane Jazz Festival has quickly become a key fixture in the London jazz calendar. What started as a grassroots effort to platform homegrown talent in and around East London has grown into a vital annual meeting point for some of the most forward-thinking artists in the UK and beyond. The festival remains proudly independent, and its model—multi-venue, walkable, affordable—feels deliberately inclusive. It’s built on the principle that jazz, in all its forms, belongs in […]...
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