There are some intense and unique cultural expressions that are too complex to describe if you haven’t experienced them first-hand....
Interviews
Tomorrow, the 2017 edition of Southbank Meltdown festival curated by M.I.A. will get under way with Scottish hip-hop trio Young...
Tamikrest always play pretty cool, eclectic music, with intricate layers of artistry. They blend rock and native music, native that...
Formed in London in 1971, from a varied collection of Caribbean musicians, Cymande have blazed a funk-drenched trail and spread...
The 19th May 2017 saw the release of Mogoya (check our review), Grammy award-winning Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré’s seventh album. Her...
She rarely visits and performs in London, but when she does, she’s always keen to bring the Caribbean sun and...
Before learning to walk and talk, Luzmira Zerpa was already singing… well, maybe that’s not literally what happened, but since...
Among the dozens of bands that claim to play some unclassifiable music, Melt Yourself Down are probably one of the...
Mokoomba are the biggest band in Zimbabwe, achieving global recognition, with their breakthrough album Rising Tide. Five years on, with...
K.O.G & the Zongo Brigade is Afro-fusion in the truest sense of the word: “you can call us Afrofusionists! Think...
There is a time proven bond between music and reincarnation, of birth and rebirth, and of historical ancestry (Aztec soldiers,...
King Ayisoba, as his name states, is the king of Ghanaian music. He plays his sacred kologo, a two-stringed wooden...