Drummer, composer and producer Romarna Campbell (*) talks about meeting her teenage inspirations, how she nearly gave up drums and the complex challenges of being a Black woman in music. 26-year-old drummer, composer and producer Romarna Campbell potters around her [...]
Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Esinam Dogbatse a.k.a ESINAM creates a gloriously unique sound universe with her debut album Shapes in Twilights of Infinity. Whilst her Ghanaian roots shine through with powerful ancestral rhythms, they are entwined with contemporary melodic flute and layered [...]
Nobody can deny the heart and soul that reverberate from British singer-songwriter Alice Russell. With this special bonus track edition of her previous album To Dust (2013) you get a little extra of this Russell magic. Alongside all the To [...]
Amy Sibley-Allen talks to London-based guitarist and composer Shirley Tetteh on catching up on sleep during the pandemic, the wonders of neuroscience podcasts, her dreams to play women’s football in the US and her newly discovered “creative love” for Miranda [...]
This double bill livestreamed from the Junction Theatre in Cambridge provides a delightful two hours of music and storytelling from Alice Zawadzki and Rob Luft, accompanied in each set by their own bands and the dynamic Amika String Quartet – [...]
La Loba is the fourth studio album by London-based singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Fini Bearman. Powerful and enchanting storytelling meet a stripped back feel, with Bearman stepping out from her usual ensemble setting to allow the listener to focus on [...]
Door to the Cosmos can only be described as a tremendous 24-track compilation album from the innovative and exciting left-field imprint On The Corner. For their 10th full album release they have gone all out to honour their adventurous, Miles [...]
The self-titled debut album from North Yorkshire-born composer and pianist Jacky Naylor’s trio Meraki is certainly music for the soul. Meraki (μεράκι) is the Greek concept for ‘the creativity or love you put into something; the essence of yourself that [...]
German drummer Christian Lillinger’s 2019 studio album Open Form For Society was a carefully perfected album where nothing was left to chance – created over an intense five days. This live album offers up a contrasting, freer, energy, the result [...]
Nabou Claerhout celebrated the release of her band’s debut EP, Hubert, at the end of 2019. Her band NΔBOU have been together since 2016 and are working on releasing a full album in 2021. Ahead of International Women’s Day, Nabou [...]
