The best night’s jazz in many a year at the Barbican
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A night of contrasts, propelled by the power of soukous
Continue reading Nsimba Foggis & Taxi Pata Pata – The Tabernacle (Live Review)
For ten years now Cheikh Lo’s music has been one of the delights of West Africa, even if his last two albums have not hit the heights of his 1990′s debut, Ne La Thiass. Jamm represents a return to form for the Senegalese songster.
Any guitarist will tell you the theory is OK but it’s all down to practice so celebrated jazz guitarist Ritenour (aka Captain Fingers) gets to pick 20 (twenty!) world class guitarist mates to join him as they get to grips with Lee Ritenour’s 6 String Theory.
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With album launch at Big Chill House on 28th August with M3NSA (named as one of BBC’s Top 50 Ghanaians!), it’s about time Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch.
Begin at the end, so they say, and the end for Lobi came suddenly and out of the blue. He died in June at 49. Like Habib Koite is, Lobi was a people’s musician. Friendly and down to earth, Lobi was well known to hustlers and music fans alike in clubs like the Djembe in Bamako. A short time before his death, he grabbed half an opportunity to record an album and here it is
Why The World Ends?…The latest title from Soundway Records features 32 electrifying and funk laden grooves from the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war.
Continue reading V/A – The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia In 1970s Nigeria
“The late, great Charlie Gillett had a passion for music”, Mark Coles, BBC World Service, June 2010.
Continue reading V/A – Sound of the World Presents: Anywhere On This Road
We love both previous editions of Next Stop…Soweto as both are totally brilliant and so different whilst the third in the series is just as good, if not the best of the lot!
After a couple of years of releasing super funky 7s, Skyline Recordings team up with the Delicious Digital production boys for their first and ever so timely compilation album called Football & Funk – get in there my son!
Next Stop… Soweto 2, sub-titled “Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves From The Townships 1969-1976″ is the second of a three part series by Strut’s finest in the underground sound of South Africa in the 60s and 70s.
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En anglais this translates as No One Knows About Persian Cats and the film by Bahman Ghobadi won a special jury prize at Cannes Film Festival last year and this is the equally good soundtrack with the film on release later this week.
