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In Conversation with Monty Alexander: On Jazz, Bob Marley, His New Album and the Importance of Music

Photo by Schorle via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0) Born in 1944, Monty Alexander is an internationally appreciated jazz...

GoGo Penguin Enrapture Audience At The Barbican

Photo by Sorrel Higgins It is fitting that one of GoGo Penguin’s songs is titled ‘Transient State’, as, during their Barbican performance...

Soweto Kinch and The London Symphony Orchestra’s Scathing Orchestral Takedown of Modern-Day Britain

Image Credit: Mark Allan The London Symphony Orchestra is no stranger to ground-breaking collaborations. Just last year, they released...

Jazz and The City: Film Screenings at EFG London Jazz Festival

Image from Young Man With A Horn, provided by Barbican Centre From the 13th to the 18th of November, a total of seven films were screened...

Craziest Thing Happened in Our Flat – An Interview with Ardhito Pramono about Global Impact, Film, a

This piece originally appeared in the Strand Magazine's Summer 2020 Issue. It’s 2am on a Tuesday night. We’re scouring Spotify for a...

The Eddy — an off-centre jazz scene drowning in multiple plots

Set in a rough Parisian suburb, The Eddy portrays a milieu of musicians whose fates intertwine as they enter a band and get together to...

Kamaal Williams at Electric Brixton - 06.12.2018

Despite the incessant echoes that jazz’s era is over, Kamaal Williams has become a predominant figure in the new-jazz wave flourishing in...

Bandcamp Digs | Aug 2017

Oakbank by sothko November 8, 2016 @ self-released Blindingly ethereal guitar music with dashes of Portishead and Galaxie 500....

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