African Beats is the product of Charlie’s life-long love of - and a career in - the communicative nature of rhythm, of its role at the root of all music and its evolution through the history of dance music. African Beats explores the subtleties and complexities of dance rhythms generated from the analogue side by talking drum and from the electronic side by digital beats.

To help him on his journey Charlie has joined forces with the Paris based Nigerian Chief Udoh Essiet, broken beats champion Mark de Clive-Lowe, one of the leading figures of the British jazz scene Dave Okumu and one of the country’s most in-demand Afro-beat drummers Richard Olatunde.

Charlie Dark African Beats brings together this line-ups wealth of experiences; connecting jazz and dance music back to their African roots, re-interpreting traditional music with modern technologies, contrasting human against machine, analogue against digital.

Tour Dates:
Friday 7th March Turner Sims Concert Hall Southampton
Saturday 8th March The Shed North Yorkshire
Sunday 9th March The Contact Theatre Manchester
Tuesday 11th March The Jam House Birmingham
Wednesday 12th March The Wardrobe Leeds
Thursday 13th March Cargo London
Friday 14th March The Zodiac Oxford