BMT Presents The Songbook
FALL IN LOVE WITH MUSIC ALL OVER AGAIN £15 EARLY BIRD OFFER Date: Thursday, 24th January 2019 Time: 8.30pm – 12.30am Address: 7 Manor House Drive, London, NW6…
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Music as Therapy, Life as Narrative: An Interview with yusef slim
By Tola Ositelu An interview nearly always takes on a life of its own. Some more than others. No matter how carefully prepared…
ALBUM REVIEW: A WORK OF HEART – TY (JAZZ REFRESHED)
Written by Andrew Kay TY is probably one of the best-known British rappers, having cultivated an international reputation for quality rhymes over rich, dense and…
Hard Graft and Flowers in Bloom: An Interview with aka RéY
I’m sitting in a gastro-pub in King’s Cross, central London with underground lyricist Lanre ‘aka RéY’ Diko. He is effusive, in his own…
The Afropolitan Festival, 03.02.17- 05.02.17, Brussels
The Afropolitan Festival is three days of exceptional programming dedicated to Afropolitan art, creativity and state of mind, presented by BOZAR and its partners,…
Thou Daddy by Black Moses: Afropean Anthems – 4
It’s 1998, welcome to “Thou Daddy” from Swedish hip hop group Black Moses’ self-titled debut album. Details on Black Moses are quite hard to…
Le bien le mal by Guru ft. MC Solar: Afropean Anthems – 2
1993, the first in the excellent (and essential) Jazzmatazz series, the immortal Guru and France’s MC Solar swapping rhymes between the Brooklyn Bridge and…
Accelerating Epiphanies: The Work of ‘Gangologist’ Raymond Douglas
By Tommy Evans Raymond Douglas is one of the UK’s leading thinkers and “doers” around reducing gang violence. A prolific social entrepreneur, Douglas has…
James Lavelle’s Meltdown Bombin’ + Q&A with James Lavelle and Dick Fontaine Bombin’: A look at UK hip-hop culture through the colourful lense of graffiti artists, BFI, London 14.06.14
A year after Beat This!, Fontaine, his then partner, Pat Hartley, and the Shaw Theatre brought Bambaataa and a contingent of The Zulu Nation…
Rap Francais: France and the Art of Storytelling
Apocraphe has been an active part of the UK Hip Hop scene since 1997 as an MC and event organiser, and set up the…
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