folk/world videos
See: Toumani Diabate & The London Symphony Orchestra release video for ‘Hainamady Town’
Collaborations between improvising musicians and orchestras sometimes reveal nothing but a culture clash. The performances can sound disjointed and fragmented, the musical equivalent of cut and paste. But when Toumani Diabate, the kora maestro, and his band of eminent Malian musicians shared the Barbican stage with the London Symphony Orchestra back in 2008, the connection …
See: KOKOKO! release Boiler Room Session, plus world tour dates
KOKOKO! revealed the extent of their brilliance to the world with the release of their debut album Fongola, which came out earlier in the month via the ever brilliant Transgressive Records, and to accompany the release of video taken from their Boiler Room Session, they’ve also announced details of a World Tour Working since 2016 …
See: Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 release new video for Tywydd Hufen la, plus album and tour news
Colorama frontman Carwyn Ellis has released details of his new solo album, Joia! out on Banana & Louie Records on June 28th. Perhaps unsurprisingly it’s a Welsh language record, but perhaps more so is that he recorded it in Rio de Janeiro as well as Caernafon and London, and features a multitude of Latin American …