Halfway through Wednesday’s set, Marlon Williams sent the Yarra Benders offstage and sat down at the piano alone. What followed...
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Congolese-British collective KDN (Kongo Dia Ntotila) have been quiet for a while. That ends on Saturday 23rd May when they...
Marseille was voting, the far right was closing in, and Babel Music XP moved through a city with all of that...
Every April, Tallinn becomes a place where the question “what is music for?” gets asked in a hotel conference room...
By the time La Linea Festival closes in London on Wednesday 6th May, someone will have danced through La Yegros’...
Andes Collective & Secret Gem lands at Fox & Firkin in Lewisham on Friday with Secret Gem Session Vol. 2,...
In 2021, Andrea Cota pressed record on a portable recorder somewhere on Lake Titicaca, among the floating reed islands of...
A few days before Başka Bahar / Another Spring came out, Umut Adan was speaking to us from Istanbul about...
On Friday 27 February, friends, family and musicians who shared bands, long journeys and late rehearsals with guitarist and percussionist...
Thirty-one bands. Twenty-five countries. Three nights where Mongolian throat-singing, Congolese electro-punk and Occitan polyphonic percussion share the same city programme....
Yeison Landero still plays cumbia in the same way he learnt it as a child in San Jacinto, a small...
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...
Roberta Gulisano‘s songs begin in Sicilian dialect and in the daily life of a small town in the province of...
Alum Alu formed in Riga, Latvia in 2020, when borders slammed shut and movement gave way to whatever could be...
Estonian bagpipes looped through effects processors, layered over acid basslines generated by Roland TB-303 clones. That is the sound at...
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What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow carries a time-shifting pull, placing traditional bluegrass back in the hands of...
Ciranda Elétrica lands at Brixtonia Lounge on Saturday 22 November, turning 35 Brixton Station Road into a North Brazilian and...
Nusantara Beat didn’t form around a manifesto. It began with a shared sense of curiosity: six musicians in Amsterdam reaching...
Being used to seeing João Selva with the usual traces of touring life, we noticed straight away that WOMEX in...
In a sure tonic for the winter blues Oumou Sangaré graces the stage of The Queen Elizabeth Hall this November...
