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04 Aug

Posted at 08:30h in Reviews
More summer exposure to music from the Lusophone world continued Saturday 24 July with Cape Verdean beauty Mayra Andrade and band live at the Barbican Centre. There was a change of support act as advertised and the audience were instead warmed up by Caribbean music legend Calypso Rose. It was clear she meant business when on making her grand entrance her shoes got stuck in her floor-length gown and she dealt with the problem by flinging them off unceremoniously. At 70 years old she hasn’t lost any of her fervour; she’s still partial to winding her hips, shaking her booty at the audience and the odd saucy innuendo.

30 Nov

Posted at 16:41h in Reviews
chromeo - DJ Kicks scrate4 I make no secret of my enduring fixation with 80s music. I find my palate constantly returning to that most innovative of decades for inspiration now more than ever, when the current musical landscape sometimes appears to be in an arid state. It is therefore a pleasure to have found kindred spirits in Chromeo, the new-school dons of synthesised soul. Accomplished musicians David Macklovitch and Patrick Gemayel aka Dave-1 and P-Thugg are a Canadian based Israeli-Palestinian production/DJ combo whose creative raison d’être is paying homage to the funky electronica with which they grew up and continues to enchant them.