And so here is my first monthly edition of round ups, or to be more precise a summary, of the...
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Relieved of the El Fog veil, Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone maestro Masayoshi Fujita strips away the minimal, static clicking, electronica for...
Contumacious counter-culture polymath, Julian Cope, isn’t one to dwell on his own past efforts. Not so much a progressive journey,...
Described as an “emotional discovery of melancholic rarities from the modern and traditional world of Latin music”, the latest volume...
A melding of exploratory minds, the three-parts Teutonic to one-part Brit, Cyclopean collaboration already looks good on paper; pitting as...
“There are over 90% Muslims in Mali, but our form of Islam here has nothing to do with a radical...
Lying east of Madagascar, the volcanic sprung island network of Mauritius basks, remote, in the Indian Ocean. Though not the...
Forever synonymous as both a founding patriarch and leading vehement voice in Afrobeat, Fela Kuti the legend transcends the musical...
And so music’s most brooding, crooning, enigmatic soul reached his 70th year this week (9th January). We celebrate the patriarch...
January 19th @ Lift Party, Top floor, 244 – 254 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9DA. Metamono Live...
With a vociferous alto saxophone, pecking, clarion call introduction Rudresh Mahanthappa sets in motion the very first strains of a...
Many happy returns to the great white duke and inter-changing metamorphosis dame, who reached the grand age of...
In his recent psychoanalytical ‘Retromania’ tome, the very much admired and noted music writer/critic Simon Reynolds discusses our modern preoccupation...
Overshadowed by its over-bearing neighbour Brazil – both economically and culturally – Colombia is however in an ascendancy of its...
From the self-professed “specialists in commercial suicide” Audio Antihero label comes a hearty dose of plaintive Christmas ‘uncheer’ from two...