Showing posts with label SOAS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOAS. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

Seby Ntege - Love, life, and loss

Lucas Keen

Seby Ntege
Diana Lwanga  
Ben Avison 
Lucas Keen

9th October 2019

Seby Ntege
and tickets for the concert 
here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/soas-concert-series-seby-ntege-tickets-74738738579?fbclid=IwAR1pnpjITHbvS84uDCyizDKnU3HoQH3N8tdBGJAqlJy2nCm1zJp73Qz9kiY

The Soul of East Africa with Seby Ntege & Band on this A World in London! 
This Friday October 18th is the opening date for the new season of SOAS Concerts and Seby Ntege with his mighty multi-cult London band are ready to Rock The Campus! Seby’s superb debut album, Five Notes’, which came out last year, took the group on a star-studded journey as they toured from WOMAD to Seby’s hometown at the source of The Nile in Uganda. There’s a multitude of everything with Seby; his gifts and honesty as a songwriter, his prowess with six or more African folkloric instruments, and his dreamcoat palette of musical colours to paint from. This time round on AWIL, now that I was over the excitement  & rarity of even having a Ugandan artist in the studio, I was able to sit back and fully appreciate what a phenomenal and versatile vocalist he actually is. Ultra-skilled, soulful, and bearing the most delicious tones. When you marry up Seby’s vocals with Diana Lwanga’s gorgeous and gilted voice an awesome magic happens, enhanced by dexterous drummer Lucas Keen and Ben Avison on guitar, who do full justice to the multiplex of African rhythms and nuances. Together, Seby Ntege & band are an award-deserving team with a family vibe that gels them in harmony. The material they cover ranges from upbeat dance numbers like Maria Swahili to the poignant tribute song Memories, penned by Seby for his mother who sadly passed away three years ago in October. In this interview, Seby talks about writing from the heart and ‘speaking to everyone’. He does. A new album beckons but meanwhile see Seby Ntege & band in concert at Brunei Gallery SOAS London on Friday and prepare to be moved!! 
Diana Lwanga 

#AWIL 225 Production by Norman Druker Alban Low Sophie Darling & #DJRitu + Resonance 104.4fm & Patrick Bernard on sound. Songs by Seby Ntege & Band Reem Kelani The Scorpios
#London #globalmusic #worldmusic #livemusic #folkmusic #radio #SebyNtege #band #Uganda #Africa #UK #AfricanMusic #music #Luganda #Swahili #FiveNotes #musician #composer #singer #songwriter #BlackHistoryMonth Black History Month UK SOAS East Africa Society Pan African Music Calabash, The UK's African Music Guide Africa Centre Uganda Embassy(Uk) Bantu Club - A melhor balada do tatuapé

Ben Avison


Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Appropriate appropriation - Sophie Darling & Quinton Scott

Sophie Darling

Appropriate appropriation with musician/radio producer Sophie Darling & Strut Records CEO Quinton Scott on this A World in London!

AWIL producer, Sophie Darling, has just compiled a fantastic and innovative chapbook in conjunction with superlative artist Alban Low, titled ‘Darling’s Global Record Labels’. It’s an essential & beautifully illustrated guide to uber-cool labels like Habibi Funk, AnalogAfrica, Teranga Beat, Glitterbeat, and  Far Out Recordings, based on Sophie’s groundbreaking interviews & dissertation for her degree at SOAS. Catch the AWIL team roundtable discussion about crate-digging, vinyl revival, record-collecting, and the unprecedented success of independent labels that are propelling world grooves into the mainstream! Also on this AWIL, an exclusive sneak preview of the forthcoming Strut Records vintage compilation ‘Alefa Madagascar’, brought in by special guest Quinton Scott from Strut Records! Darling’s Global Record Labels chapbook is available from Sampson-Low publishers https://sampsonlow.co/2019/07/08/darlings-global-record-labels-sophie-darling/

Quinton Scott
Also on AWIL this week virtuoso violinist JooYeon Sir at Resonance FM - Listen here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-10th-july-2019/
Next week Hanitra at SOAS Radio and Samba Azul at Resonance FM.
10/7/19 - AWIL 308. #AWorldInLondon is podcast on #Itunes & #Mixcloud:   http://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/playlists/a-world-in-london/ A World In London – #thesoundofdiverselondon#connectingculturesthroughmusic - THIRTEEN YEARS! Live on Wednesdays, 4pm, from SOAS Radio: https://soasradio.org/  and AWIL at Resonance 104.4fm at 6.30pm, repeat Monday 8am, online, DAB & on Resonance Extra 5pm Wednesdays. https://www.resonancefm.com/  Production by #DJRitu, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling, Lucas Keen, and artist Alban Low. Join us on Twitter & Instagram @aworldinlondon @djritu1 http://www.djritu.com   https://www.facebook.com/DjRitu


Monday, 17 April 2017

Chico Chica - Witty Jazz-Pop at AWIL

Barbara Snow

Chico Chica
Hilary Cameron - voice/piano
Tom Hannah - voice/guitar
Barbara Snow - voice/trumpet/percussion

Date - 12th April 2017
Venue - A World in London, SOAS, London, UK


Current releases

Falling, Falling (2017)

Future Performance
19th April 2017 - The Pheasantry, Kings Road, Chelsea

Tom Hannah
This Bank Holiday treat your ears to a multiplex of songs & spoken word wrapped around Salsa, Samba, Tango and Rai by London 5-piece Chico Chica! This witty, worldy wordy collective dazzled us on A World in London with their bumper-packed treasure chest of new goodies from their forthcoming album ‘Falling Falling’!

Click here to listen: https://soasradio.org/music/episodes/awil-219-chico-chica

Hilary Cameron
AWIL Goin’ Global Gigs Guide: Apr 15 She'koyokh @ Beans & Barley, Apr 19 Chico Chica @ Pizza Express Kings Road ChelseaThe Pheasantry, Apr 21 Olcay Bayir Offical & Djanan Turan @ Epic Dalston, Apr 21+22 Bubble Schmeisis @ Battersea Arts, Apr 22 NAMLO @ St Ethelburga’s Listen to the World, Apr 23 Amizade at Pizza Express Jazz Club 23.04.17, Apr 28 Don Kipper @ Stour Space, Apr 28 Hura Nights with Djanan Turan & Special Guests @ the Library, Apr 29 Don Kipper Trio @ The Stable, Whitechapel, Apr 29 Oysland @ Jamboree, Apr 29 Kuch Kuch Bollywood Nights @ The Alice Bar. APR 18 – 29 La Linea - The London Latin Music Festival @ various ...more at www.djritu.com

AWIL visitor Jess Low

Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Ranagri - A World in London

Jean Kelly
Ranagri
Jean Kelly - Electric Harp/Piano
Joe Danks - Bodhran/Guitar
Donal Rogers - Guitars/Bass/Vocals
Eliza Marshall - Flutes/Ethnic Flutes

Date - 2nd November 2016
Venue - A World in London, SOAS Radio
Current Album - Voices (2016)

Eliza Marshall
Future performance

Donal Rogers
So many tracks these days revolve around an ‘Ooh baby’ sample - looped, pasted, and disposable in our Spotify- Snapchat times. Is this really all there is? Baby. But then a band like Ranagri roar gallantly to the rescue, with Gaelic roots, bansuri flutes, harp, bodhran,  golden harmonies and the voice of Donal Rogers, entwined around some good old-fashioned SONGS. There’s a fresh treasure trove of these on their new album ‘Voices’, a perfect accompaniment to glass of wine by the fireside, to warm the cockles of your heart and coax you through winter, until the hares and daffodils return in Spring. By then the talented song-writing team of Eliza Marshall, Jean Kelly, Joe Danks, and that man - Donal Rogers, will be back with a new CD including a cover version of Del Amitri’s ‘You’re Gone’. Hear an exclusive preview of that on this AWIL – our 200th edition at SOAS Radio - and thank your lucky stars that Ranagri are on a roll and feeling prolific, because with real songs like these, all is well in our world.

Click here to listen: www.soasradio.org/music/episodes/a-world-in-london-200


Joe Danks
AWIL Goin’ Global Gigs Guide: Nov 4 Oysland @ Jamboree, Nov 4 Southern Cone Quintet @ Brunei Gallery, Nov 4 FLUX @ Kings Place, Nov 4 ENNE ++ at LIAF @ Rich Mix, Nov 8 Chango Spasiuk @ Rich Mix, Nov 10 Djanan Turan @ Library Club... **AWIL LIVE at Southbank Centre FRIDAY DEC.9th – FREE!! – with Lambrego & The London Lucumi Choir!!**
More at www.djritu.com    2/11/16  AWIL 200  #AWorldInLondon is podcast on #Itunes & #Mixcloud:   http://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/playlists/a-world-in-london/
DJ Ritu
A World In London – in its TENTH year! Live on Wednesdays, 4pm, from SOAS Radio: mixlr.com/soasradio  and AWIL/CC at Resonance 104.4fm at 6.30pm, repeat Monday 8am, online, DAB  & on Resonance Extra 5pm Wednesdays.  Join us on Twitter @aworldinlondon    This week ENNE + Adesh Sundaresan @ Resonance, next week Tell Tale Tusk! TEYR at SOAS Radio Nov 16th!
www.djritu.com   https://www.facebook.com/DjRitu  Twitter:@djritu1  @aworldinlondon