With swaggering reggae beats to modern Maghrebi, the near-original line-up reunites for a new studio album. Transglobal Underground were ahead of their time. Thirty years ago they rose from the ashes of the underrated indie band Furniture as a fusion of dance and world music, the furrow they have ploughed ever since. A revolving cast of characters have come and gone — the Egyptian-British singer Natacha Atlas, whose subsequent solo albums have ranged from Cairene strings to Arabic jazz; Nick Page, known in his TGU incarnation as Count Dubulah, who went on to Syriana, Xaos and most notably Dub Colossus; Johnny Kalsi of the Dhol Foundation and Imagined Village. TGU were…
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Transglobal Underground – Walls Have Ears – For today only on Bandcamp
‘WALLS HAVE EARS’ is the new album from Transglobal Underground, featuring family members from the beginning, the present and the future. It will be released on May 15th 2020. Transglobal Underground - "Walls Have Ears" is available today Friday 1st May 2020, for one day only on Bandcamp. Available on vinyl £15, CD £10, and digital download £8. But for 24 hours only Transglobal Underground have been described as "an anarchic self-built non-structure that goes it’s own way." Tim and Hami have just sent me through an advance promo copy of the new album. It's probably the best record they've ever made. Here's a video for a track called Ruma Jhuma…
TC Lethbridge – Project to Uncover Ancient Hill Figures on Wandlebury Hill, Cambridgeshire
What’s the best thing you can do with £100? I think I’ve said this before, If you spend too much time in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behaviour, or social interaction you might end up working with music. Living life in a completely deluded state, generating massive debt for no apparent reason can prove to be a nonsense. Sometimes I do things for money. Sometimes I do things for free, and sometimes I do things I don’t really understand. As the Cheshire Cat says “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” I like to take my nonsense seriously. You can be sitting…
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Iron Man Records seeks to provide a cultural outpost for musicians, writers and travellers in the arts. An Embassy for the Imagine Nation committed to inspiring and promoting Independent creativity. The Record label seeks to encourage residents and travellers in the arts to gather, record and present their cultural insights and experiences. Iron Man Records relies on your support, and in turn works hard to earn and keep your trust through the care taken in spending funds on production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, and promotion of new music on Vinyl. Record releases and the campaigns that accompany them cost money and we won’t accept donations from governments, companies, local councils, Arts…
Nightingales – Four Against Fate UK Tour 2020
Nightingales - Four Against Fate UK Tour 2020 with special guests: Pete Astor (The Loft, Weather Prophets) & Kamura Obscura (Frank Chickens, Mizutama Shobodan) 2020 is due to be an exciting year for The Nightingales – The recently completed new album is to be isused in April, Fire Films will be releasing a documentary feature film written by Stewart Lee and directed by Michael Cumming, the series of reissues (Starting with the expanded 2xLP version of ‘No Love Lost’ in November 2019) will continue, the band guest on a new record by a ‘70s glam pop star & they will be hitting the road, starting in the UK in the Spring.…
Dead Wax Digbeth, 28 Adderley St, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4ED. New Birmingham venue and ‘vinyl bar’ opens
“. . . an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati - 45 Birmingham and Midlands artists and DJs launch Dead Wax Digbeth from Thursday 28th November - Venue will be home to a collection of 4000 records, operating an ‘all vinyl, all the time’ policy - Music fans invited to play the venue’s records or bring own vinyl to play at city’s newest music destination - Craft beers from Beavertown, Laine Brew Co. and local breweries on offer all year round Dead Wax Digbeth 28 Adderley St, Digbeth, Birmingham…
Funk The Dam – A Funk, Soul & Disco Weekend taking place in Amsterdam from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th November 2019
The team behind the famous Funk & Soul Club bring you “Funk The Dam” – A Funk, Soul & Disco Weekend taking place in Amsterdam from Friday 8th November-Sunday 10th November, 2019. For the debut year, we have hand-picked a selection of some of the greatest and jazziest artists delving in Funk, Soul, Disco, Jazz and Brass music from the current scene. Expect evening events, museum tours, funk & soul banquet, coffee shop tours, intimate boat parties + lots more! This is the ultimate experience for funk & soul fans to lose themselves in a weekend of debauchery whilst exploring the beautiful sights Amsterdam has to offer. Join us on a journey…
Transglobal Underground… A history…
Transglobal Underground had to happen. They refused to accept that dance music had to be four to the floor house. They refused to accept that something called ‘World Music’ ever existed. They slowed down hip-hop and sped up dub. They sang in whatever language they felt like singing in. they were DJs but they played live. Their influence is all over the place, sometimes benign, sometimes joyful, sometimes beautiful and sometimes bloody dreadful. But the price of innovation is often a trail of shite left in your wake. A thousand dodgy car adverts with colourful tribespeople, colonialised blanded out ethnic samples and ten year old beats…that’s not it at all… We’re…
Transglobal Underground – EFG London Jazz Festival 22nd November 2019
"Full of life and heart and drama, it’s good to have that TGU ethos in the here and now" Songlines 2018 Transglobal Underground 22nd November 2019 LONDON PizzaExpress Jazz Club 10 Dean Street London W1D 3RW https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/trans-global-underground https://efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/transglobal-underground-1 So what is Transglobal Underground? Well, over 25 years it’s been a DJ/musical collective, a working band famous for it’s scorching live shows, a techno soundsystem, a folk festival rabble rouser, a pop group, a club night, a Middle Eastern hit production team, an improvised study group for Indian classical music, an Albanian brass band, a duo..or was it an octet?...a seminar, a medicine show and several things no one involved would admit…
Transglobal Underground – The Colours Started to Sing Again
If you see a barrier, smash it down. 'The Colours Started to Sing Again' is the first new recording by Transglobal Underground in several years. 'I Left My Sweet Homeland' is a remix from the 2009 release 'A Gathering of Strangers' Digital Album and CD released May 13, 2019 Natacha Atlas sings on 'The Colours Started to Sing Again.' Nori Kovacs sings on 'I Left My Sweet Homeland' Transglobal Underground represent something so unique it would be a travesty and blasphemy to attempt to define them in one sentence or write a encyclopedia, you are sure to miss something. Nation Records gave a platform to the band who in turn shared,…
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The Iron Man Records Newsletter is here to inspire you. It's free. And we only send it once a Month. There will be FREE download codes and all sorts of dark temptation. The end of the Music Business has already taken place, and artists, writers, musicians and all involved with Iron Man Records are trying to survive and start anew. Just enter your email address, and we will share our Monthly curation of Dystopian wonder and post-apocalyptic optimism with you. Please confirm that you are happy to receive our Newsletter by email - Opt in to emails Don’t worry - you can opt out of receiving communication from us at any…
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