Stefanos Tsourelis Trio - Native Speaker

Stefanos Tsourelis

Stefanos Tsourelis Trio
Stefanos Tsourelis - guitar and oud
Dave Jones - bass
Eric Ford - drums

Date - 7th October 2017
Venue - Jazz Café POSK, Hammersmith, London, UK

Current album - Native Speaker (2017)

Dave Jones

Future performance

14th November 2017 - EFG London Jazz Festival, Bull's Head, Barnes, UK (with live art by Alban Low)

Greek-born, London-based guitar and oud virtuoso Stefanos Tsourelis alongside bassist Dave Jones and Eric Ford on drums launch debut album Native Speaker at Jazz Café POSK.

Eric Ford

Their music is a heady mix of jazz and rock with Oriental and Greek influences, traditional Mediterranean melodies and textures with Flamenco and African rhythms, generating dynamic grooves, combined with nuanced dynamics and sparkling arrangements. Stefanos follows in the footsteps of guitarists such as John McLaughlin and Ralph Towner, creating a personal and unique fusion of 'World Jazz' at its very best as a vehicle for his wonderful oud and guitar improvisations. His music is both melodically and rhythmically engaging.

"A wonderful sense of the trio grooving together very intuitively." London Jazz News.

Stefanos Tsourelis

Kan Beng - Vitality United

Ren Renoldz - drums

Kan Beng
Seneke Sillah - djembe & dundun
Jez Gibson - bass
Ren Renoldz - drums
Dotan Cohen - guitar
Nadia Al Faghih Hasan - vocals
Leon McLaughlin - vocals

Nadia Al Faghih Hasan - vocals 

Date - 4th October 2017
Venue - A World In London, Resonance FM, London, UK

Dotan Cohen - guitar

Our cosmopolitan capital embodied in new band Kan Beng, live on this A World in London!
Click to listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-4th-october-2017/

Jez Gibson - bass 

Gambian Londoner Seneke Sillah has created a new group called Kan Beng which is fresh, raw, and bursting with vitality! It’s members originate from West & North Africa, Israel, and the UK, merging elements of Berber, Mandinka, and Jewish folk with Rock and Jungle through ONE multi-faceted VOICE. Kan Beng’s wealth of individual talent and incredible energy is all set to send shockwaves through the live music scene so catch them in their embryonic stage on this AWIL! Kan Beng’s formidable line up includes: Seneke Sillah on djembe & dundun, Jez Gibson on bass; Ren Renoldz on drums, guitarist Dotan Cohen, and vocalists Nadia Al Faghih Hasan, Leon McLaughlin & Mahdi Kourtaa.

Seneke Sillah - djembe & dundun

AWIL at Res 138 Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-4th-october-2017/ Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani Morris, Norman Druker, & sketches by Alban Low. Also this week Mabele Martinez re: A Chabuca at SOAS Radio. Next week Pete Lockett at SOAS & Adam Blake at Resonance! #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4fm www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio #London #GlobalMusic #FolkMusic #WorldMusic #UK #Gambia #Algeria #Libya #Israel #Mandinka #Berber #Jewish #Rock #Jungle with Chantelle Michaux

Leon McLaughlin - vocals

Balagan Cafe Band - A World in London

Christian Miller

Balagan Café Band
Christian Miller - guitar
Richard Jones - violin

Date - 27th September 2017
Venue - A World In London, Resonance FM, London, UK

Future performance

6th October 2017 - Riverhouse Barn, Walton on Thames, UK

27th October 2017 - Café Barcelona,  344 Streatham High Rd, London SW16 6HH

The Balagan Cafe Band debut on this A World in London!
Click to listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-27th-september-2017/

Richard Jones

Christian Miller & Richard Jones bring their mighty concoction of Gypsy Jazz, North African Chaabi, Balkan folk, and Classical undertones to the studio, plus an exclusive preview of their forthcoming album recorded with co-composer & cellist Shirley Smart! Music for the ears, heart, and feet!

27/9/17 – AWIL at Res 137  Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-27th-september-2017/  Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, sketches by Alban Low. Also this week Montgomery Sadler at SOAS Radio. Next week Ajay Srivastav at SOAS & Kan Beng at Resonance!  #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4  www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio  mixlr.com/soasradio 

Juan Maria Solares & Selma Hande Gade – Four hands piano

Juan Maria Solare
Selma Hande Gade

Date - 18th September 2017
Venue - The Church of St Martin within Ludgate, London

Current Album
Juan Maria Solare -  Sn: Electronic Miniatures (Janus Music & Sound)

Future Performance
31 OCT 2017 - Universität Bremen
1 NOV 2017 - Bremen, Johanniterhaus, Seiffertstr. 95, Bremen
2 NOV 2017 - Kulturkirche St. Stephani Bremen. Stephanikirchhof 8,
28195 Bremen

Face in the crowd

Piano from Lands of Passion
Selma and Juan play music from their natives cultures: Argentina (traditional tango, Astor Piazzolla) and Turkey (Fazil Say), plus Enrique Granados (from Spain).

Astor Piazzolla: Chiquilín de Bachín
Juan María Solare: Tengo un tango
Juan María Solare: Vendetta
Horacio Salgán: La llamo silbando
Fazil Say: Wintermorgen in Istanbul (Opus 51b)
Enrique Granados: Andaluza
Astor Piazzolla: Calambre
Juan María Solare: Reencuentro
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez: La Cumparsita
Saúl Cosentino: Tangomanía
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango

Face in the crowd - Bill Mudge

Josh Wheatley - Shiver - Half Moon Putney

Josh Wheatley

Josh Wheatley

Date - 11th September 2017
Venue - Half Moon, Putney
Latest Single - Shiver 

A singer-songwriter from Nottingham, writing striking alternative pop.

guitar

Having already caught the attention of Janice Long at Radio 2 and a host of producers lining up to work with Josh. This brooding musician is writing with a knowing empathy, rarely found in someone so young.

bass

His influences are cited as being locked firmly around artists like Dan Croll, Death Cab For Cutie, Haim and David Gray....

One Man Plan - Ben Hills

One Man Plan
Ben Hills

Date - 11th September 2017
Venue - Half Moon, Putney Current release - New EP 'Become' released 11/11/2017

Acoustic Soul with roots in the West Country and growing in London, Ben Hills is OneManPlan.
Smooth vocal tones, percussive guitar & songs from the heart.

Ukebox - Half Moon Putney

Ukebox

James - Ukulele/Vocalele
Danny - Ukulele/Vocalele
Mikey - Banjolele/Vocals
Scott - Kazookelele/Vocals
Steve - U-Bass/Vocals

Date - 11th September 2017
Venue - Half Moon, Putney
Current release - Ukebox CD Volume 2

Future Performance
11th November 2017 - Matt & Phred's, Manchester

Ukebox formed in 2012 essentially for a joke at an open mic night at a Liverpool University which all five members happened to be attending. To the surprise of... these five four-string champions, they proved an instant hit, and spent the next six months honing their craft at open mic nights around Liverpool before exploding onto the local music scene with the force of an atom bomb, showering other performers with brightly-coloured radioactive ukulele debris. This came together in 2013, when the lads won local talent competition and performed at Aintree Racetrack for the famous 'Ladies Day' of the Grand National, and then went on to play to the biggest crowd yet at the main stage for a festival in Liverpool, and then again at an even bigger one of around 40,000 people at Goodison Park football stadium in February 2014. Since then they have been perfecting their craft to result in the polished performances you see today, winning over audiences around the world. Fresh from a show at The London Palladium they are taking entertainment to new heights. Whether honing their craft in their secret 'ukule-lairs' in Liverpool, driving to shows in the legendary 'ukemobile' or winning over hoards of new followers at one of their explosive shows, the only way from here is up!