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Andy Kershaw tours the UK
Posted on January 8th, 2012 in World Music by Songlines.
Following hard on the heels of the release of his new autobiography, No Off Switch, the livewire radio DJ is now bringing his tales to a town near you for a series of anecdotal evenings in the vein of that other irrepressible one-off, Howard Marks.
The Adventures of Andy Kershaw: An Evening with the Legendary Broadcaster and Foreign Correspondent runs from January 14 until March 21, and is sure to be an unmissable and revelatory delight for all those who have benefited from Kershaw’s expansive tastes in the world of music.
With 31 dates already confirmed and more possible dates to come, it is a rock’n’roll style marathon, of which Songlines – with its long association with Kershaw – is proud to be the media partner.
London International Festival of Exploratory Music 2011
Posted on October 24th, 2011 in World Music by Songlines.
The London International Festival of Exploratory Music (LIFEM) 2011 spans four venues from October 29-November 7, offering the most adventurous of musical spirits an epic trek around the four corners of the world.
This year’s festival is arrayed between the shiny new Kings Place, eclectic arts venue Rich Mix and uber-trendy Café OTO in north London and Wandsworth’s Lost Theatre.
The festival features new Portuguese fado from Claudia Aurora, Vietnamese Cai Luong (theatre music) song from Huong Thanh, Poland’s Warsaw Village Band and the Siberia’s Namgar, the Samí song of Mari Boine and Jamaican reggae from Misty in Roots. This only scratches the surface of a list of artists spanning China to Angola, Estonia to Brazil.
New cross-cultural collaborative quartet debut in UK
Posted on October 14th, 2011 in World Music by Songlines.
SANS, a new quartet formed by British multi-instrumentalist Andrew Cronshaw, is to play their first concert outside Finland at St Ethelburga’s in London on October 23.
The Finnish connection comes via singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio, who appears on Cronshaw’s new album The Unbroken Surface of Snow, alongside the other members of the quartet, Armenian duduk master Tigran Aleksanyan and reed instrumentalist Ian Blake.
The quartet bring their otherworldly sounds to the Centre for Reconciliation & Peace at St Ethelburga’s in central London, a church damaged by an IRA bomb in 1993 and since restored as a place of global interaction.
Damon Albarn goes to Kinshasa for latest music project
Posted on October 12th, 2011 in World Music by Songlines.
While Damon Albarn’s Africa Express is still very much on a rising curve, with its biggest project yet planned for the Cultural Olympiad in the UK in 2012, Albarn has now embarked on a deeper foray into Africa. His latest African music project brings together local musicians in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who have recorded the album Kinshasa One Two to benefit the work of Oxfam in the war-torn country.
The project has its roots in a collective of producers brought together by Albarn and named DRC Music. They are Kwes, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Alwest, Actress, Marc Antoine, Remi Kabaka, Dan the Automator, Rodaidh McDonald and T-E-E-D. Over five days in July 2011, DRC Music worked with over 50 Congolese artists including Bokatola System, Nelly Liyemge, and Jupiter and the Okwess International to create the album, which was released by Warp Records digitally on October 3 and will be out on CD/vinyl on November 7.
All proceeds will benefit the local performers, as well as supporting Oxfam projects in the DRC. View the trailer and find out more at:
http://drcmusic.org
