Live Reviews

Cécile McLorin Salvant draws on the past to captivate at Cadogan Hall

After a lovely low-key opening set from Femi Temowo, featuring a Lagos-style version of The Beatles’ tune ‘Blackbird’ and a song called ‘A Moment in Time’, inspired by Chinua Achebe’s classic Things Fall Apart, both of which will feature on Temowo’s album-in-the-making Blood is Not for Drinking, the audience was left to ponder the role of music in relation to conflict, in the wake of the tragic events that unfolded in Paris just the previous evening, as we waited for US vocalist Cécile McLorin...

Hiatus Kaiyote bring cutting edge future-soul to The Concorde

There’s a crush of boho twentysomethings up against Brighton’s Concorde stage, working themselves up into a state of such anticipation that the appearance of a sober-looking tour manager bearing towels and water is greeted with a ragged cheer.

Hypnotised by Hindi Zahra at London's Elgar Room

Given the limitless ocean of music in which the world is currently swimming, or rather drowning, it makes sense for any artist who doesn't want to sink into anonymity to keep afloat with regular new product.

Marcos Valle Makes Do At The Brooklyn Bowl

When taking an evening to see a true legend of the 1960s and 70s, it can be quite a buzz-kill to enter the hyper-modernised complex of The O2, even on an atmospheric fog-ridden November evening.

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