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Dele Sosimi & Friends At Ronnie Scott's Club
by Chris May
Dele Sosimi & Friends Ronnie Scott's Club London June 11, 2023 Born in London but brought up in Lagos, keyboard player Dele Sosimi was a child prodigy who joined Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 the moment he left secondary school in 1979. Sosimi had by that time been rehearsing with Egypt ...
Many Faces
Label: Funkiwala
Released: 2022
Track listing: Be A Little Wiser; The Reeducation Of Mr Otheralisation; How It Is; Woman; The Reality Of Reality; Iwa Re Re.
Soothsayers Meets Victor Rice & Friends
Label: Red Earth Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Flying East; Last Days; The Slow Life; Effra Nights; The Slow Life Dub; Flying East Dub; Last Days Dub; Effra Nights Dub.
Soothsayers: Soothsayers Meets Victor Rice & Friends
by Chris May
Nobody does it better, so the song goes, though whether the innuendo resonates most strongly with the singer, Carly Simon, or the lyrics's supposed protagonist, James Bond, depends, as it were, on the direction in which the listener is pointing. But whatever. In the context of Soothsayers Meets Victor Rice & Friends, the song's hook becomes ...
Justin Thurgur: Many Faces
by Chris May
London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur is at home in several traditions. He plays contemporary English folk music with the band Bellowhead and Afrobeat with the Afrobeat Orchestra, the ensemble led by keyboard player Dele Sosimi, a childhood protégé of Fela Kuti, who has done more than any other musician to keep the Afrobeat flame alight in Britain. ...
Afrobeat: An Alternative Top Ten
by Chris May
It would be hard if not impossible to compile an Afrobeat Top Ten which was not wholly made up of Fela Anikulapo Kuti albums. Such was Kuti's centrality in the creation and development of Afrobeat, such was the productivity of his recording career--his catalogue totals more than fifty albums, not counting reissues and compilations--and such was ...
Lokkhi Terra meets Dele Sosimi: Cubafrobeat
by Chris May
A younger version of London's Grand Union Orchestra, founded by world-jazz pioneer Tony Haynes in 1982, Lokkhi Terra was put together by keyboard player Kishon Khan in 2005. Both ensembles have made a specialism of jazz / South Asian fusion, with Lokkhi Terra also giving as much attention to music from Cuba, where Bangladeshi-born, London-based Khan ...
Kishon Khan and Lokkhi Terra at London Latin Jazz Festival
by Gareth Thomas
Kishon Khan and Lokkhi Terra London Latin Jazz Festival PizzaExpress Live London October 20, 2017 Lokkhi Terra, led by Bangladeshi-born pianist Kishon Khan, brought their fusion of Bangladeshi folk and Afro-Cuban jazz to London Soho's Pizza Express Jazz Club on 20th October, as part of 2017's London Latin Jazz Festival. ...