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Review: Freshlyground @ the Jazz Cafe
Tweet this. They may not be that well known in the UK but South African septet Freshlyground are popular enough to fill out Jazz Cafe. Toes were much trodden on in the sweaty, hip-shaking main floor of the Camden venue. Most world music fans will know the band through Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), […]
Preview: Shostakovich – Orango (prologue) / Philharmonia Orchestra
May 6, 2013
Tweet this. By Rob Edgar “Shostakovich wrote this prologue, probably played it through but then somebody somewhere said ‘we don’t think so’, and on that it stopped,” Gerard McBurney, a leading expert on the enigmatic Soviet composer, tells me. “There’s no scholarly proof as to why this happened but my guess is that a moment […]
Preview: Pioneers Of Electronic Music Festival
February 14, 2013
Tweet this. This on Londonist today… Composer Gabriel Prokofiev, founder of the classical club series Nonclassical, is presenting an ambitious electronic music festival in East London in March. Running from 6 to 17 March, the event wraps together performances, film screenings, talks and workshops at venues including The Macbeth in Hoxton, the Hackney Picturehouse, Rio […]
Review: Carlos Núñez, Philip Pickett & Musicians of the Globe @ QEH
February 2, 2013
“Here we have two monsters,” said Carlos Núñez, introducing a pair of bagpipes (including his signature Galician gaita) towards the end of the first set with new collaborator Philip Pickett last night. But until the three rounds of encores, when proceedings erupted into foot-stamping delirium, Núñez played his monsters only briefly and at a volume […]
London stars in new Sam Lee music video
January 30, 2013
From Londonist today… Sam Lee, has released a new music video ahead of this evening’s BBC Folk Awards. The Mercury Award-nominated singer (who you can hear speaking on Londonist Out Loud here) is up for three gongs at the Glasgow ceremony. London-born Lee, who is also a live music promoter and folk song collector, is filmed […]
Preview: The Rest Is Noise Festival @ Southbank Centre
January 16, 2013
One of the most ambitious ever feats of arts programming in London launches this Saturday. The Rest Is Noise festival (TRIN), inspired by New Yorker writer Alex Ross’s seminal book, will chart the music of the 20th century. Starting with Richard Strauss (the book opens with the premiere of Salome) and finishing somewhere around John […]
News: Two sparkling classical trailers for 2013
January 15, 2013
Two savvy London arts organisations, the Royal Opera House and Aurora Orchestra, have trailers out promoting their wares in 2013. Both will have taken chunks out their marketing budgets to produce this level of video content, but in a crowded market, orchestras and opera houses need to stand out from the crowd. 1. Covent Garden’s […]
Album reviews: Bassekou Kouyate – Jama Ko; Ballaké Sissoko – At Peace
January 7, 2013
In new releases, two giants of Malian music react very differently to the ongoing crisis in their country: war and Islamic extremism in the north and military coups in the south. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Jama Ko Out Here Records **** With this third international album Bassekou Kouyate reaffirms his status as a bona […]
News: Wilton’s Music Hall fundraising boost on Bing
December 28, 2012
This just in today — I scribbled up for Londonist.com: The ongoing campaign to raise the money needed to keep alive London’s oldest surviving music hall received a boost today when the search engine Bing gave over its UK homepage to support Wilton’s Music Hall. The Tower Hamlets venue, which opened in 1858, launched a capital […]
Preview: Top London Christmas Concerts 2012
December 4, 2012
This post was written for Londonist.com. Forget the Oxford Street lights and nauseating John Lewis ad, the Christmas season really starts when churches and venues start filling up for carol concerts and Christmas gigs. Arts venues pitch in with Advent events, creating Christmas music programmes from the traditions of classical, jazz and folk music. Here are 10 […]
Review: London Jazz Festival round-up
November 20, 2012
Phew, what a busy last couple of weeks. I attended London Jazz Festival gigs seven days in a row in aid of a review round-up of events outside the main arts centres for The Arts Desk (read here). Schlepping across London was occasionally wearing but in the main it was a privilege to see the […]
Album review: Laura Jurd – Landing Ground (Chaos)
November 8, 2012
Review by Sam Leak. Landing Ground is a bold debut album from trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd. It has garnered some very high praise from some of the most prominent figures on the UK Jazz scene and shows Jurd to be a composer with a fantastic technical facility, a great depth of knowledge, and intriguing and […]
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