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Monday, July 4, 2016

Dele Sosimi at Tropical Pressure Festival 2016 (Truro, Cornwall)

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Dele Sosimi at Summer in the Square 2016

Dele Sosimi will be performing at this year’s Summer in the Square, on July 15th.

 

In its fifth year, Summer in the Square is transforming London’s second largest garden square, Grosvenor Square, into an urban retreat and a relaxing haven for the local community, offering a programme of free games, music, theatre, art and other entertainment in the heart of Mayfair.

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Dele Sosimi’s Afrobeat Orchestra at Global Rhythm Festival 2016

GLOBAL RHYTHM – Now in it’s 6th year, Ipswich’s annual free festival of world music is a colourful and exciting celebration of worldwide culture, showcasing the best world and roots music and dance in the perfect setting of Christchurch Park from Noon to 7pm. This year the Peppery Stage has been renamed in memory of Martin Burtley, a founding member of Peppery Productions, to recognise his contribution to the musical life of Ipswich and Suffolk. The lineup on the MARTIN BURLEY PEPPERY STAGE includes Ska, Country, Afrobeat, Bollywood and more. There’s rollin’ reggae and skankin’ ska from the GOLDMASTER ALLSTARS. In a treat for Americana fans THE WANGFORD FOUR will feature HANK WANGFORD and one of the world’s finest pedal steel players BJ COLE. South Indian violin star JYOTSNA SRIKANTH joins BOLLYWOOD BRASS BAND on stage for their “CARNATIC CONNECTIONS” show. And to round off the afternoon DELE SOSIMI’S AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA will bring their joyous and uplifting sounds to the park.

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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve: The Soft Bounce review – sweet psychedelia

Phantasy Sound

Around the turn of the new millennium, the London DJ Erol Alkan got indie kids on the dancefloor at the London club, Trash, spearheading a fertile crossover between alternative rock and hard beats. This collaboration with his remix partner Richard Norris finds him in more reflective, psychedelic mode, on an absorbing chill-out album with an eclectic cast and a varied palette. Highlights include Mystery Jets’s Blaine Harrison wigging out Sabbath-style on the crunching Iron Age; Euros Childs sounding sweetly spaced-out on the gently circling Door to Tomorrow; and the Magnetic North’s Hannah Peel cooing airily over the Stereolab/Broadcast-style, dark psych-pop of Delicious Light – but the Soft Bounce is a trip best taken as a whole.

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by Emily Mackay via Electronic music | The Guardian
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