Upcoming Gig: Alchemy Festival – Raj:Reload

This April Southbank Centre presents Alchemy, the Alchemy festival explores the culture of India, its diaspora and its relationship to the UK today in over 30 events spanning dance, music, literature, debates, fashion and food.

Representing the cutting edge of contemporary music making Raj:Reload, a showcase of some of most innovative artists working in India and the UK today. A mini-festival held across the whole of the Queen Elizabeth Hall site with live bands, film soundtrack performances, VJs, DJs, spoken word, comedy and one-off collaborations.

Here’s a quick profile of just some of the artists performing on the night.

Engine-Earz Experiment

Engine-EarZ Experiment are a musical collective born out of the Dubstep scene in early 2009 centering around acclaimed multi-instrumentalist/scorer/dj/producer Prashant Mistry.

Growing up in Britain with Asian roots, Prash had always sought to reconcile his varied musical influences from The Prodigy and Rage Against The Machine through to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Talvin Singh. For Raj:Reload Engine-Earz Experiment will feature Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Shahid Abbas Khan and Jenna G.

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Bishi

Bishi has played Glastonbury with a rock band, underground clubs with a grime collective and concert halls and with The London Symphony Orchestra. In whatever surrounding Bishi’s sound is eclectic, edgy, urban and totally unique.

Last Mango in Paris

Last Mango in Paris bridges Comedy and Spoken Word, Hip Hop and Jazz. To give you a taste here’s Last Mango’s Shane Solanki with a plea to young men pull up their trousers.

And More..

For more info on the event and to book tickets visit the Raj:Reload page, and while you’re there take a look at the fantastic cross-artform Alchemy line-up.

Chrome Hoof live at Ether & album announcement

Chrome Hoof aren’t a band to be pigeonholed. They take genre-trashing to a whole new level, thrillingly taking apart and reconstructing everything from prog to disco. Lola Olafisoye, their bewitching frontwoman, delves into a magical world of cosmic rock while the band charge through their hyperactive sonic exercises and visually-spectacular theatrics.

Upcoming gig: Dan Berglund’s Tonbruket + Win a copy of their new album

It’s always difficult to step out of the shadow of a previous band and in the case of former e.s.t. bassist Dan Berglund, he also had to deal with the loss of his late bandmate Esbjorn Svensson. However, Berglund and his new band Tonbruket have created something fresh and vital in their recently released debut album.