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Alex Wilson & Omar Puente Quartet – UK Tour Dates 2023. Come and See.

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Award winning artists Alex Wilson (piano) and Omar Puente (violin) join forces for a special collaboration, combining their intense musical energies with the help of bass virtuoso Dimitris Christopoulos and Venezuelan percussion powerhouse Edwin Sanz. Throughout their careers the pair have collectively performed with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Courtney Pine and Tito Puente, having also appeared together on a joint billing at Glastonbury this year. This new show provides a unique opportunity to experience repertoire from Alex and Omar's own albums brought to life together for the first time, and promises to take the audience on a joyful, whirlwind journey of musical exuberance. Alex Wilson: "His playing is fantastic" Rodrigo…

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Transglobal Underground – Walls Have Ears released 15th May 2020

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‘WALLS HAVE EARS’ is the new album from Transglobal Underground, featuring family members from the beginning, the present and the future. If you would like a review copy of Walls Have Ears email [email protected] Transglobal Underground - "Walls Have Ears" released Friday 1st May 2020 Transglobal Underground have been described as "an anarchic self-built non-structure that goes it’s own way." It's probably the best record they've made. Here's a video for a track called Ruma Jhuma. The track features Natacha Atlas and Sheema Mukherjee. Transglobal Underground - Walls Have Ears You’ve gone your own idiosyncratic way since the 1990s. You’ve refused labels, moved in and out of different scenes and styles,…

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Review: Transglobal Underground: Walls Have Ears — as glorious as ever.

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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

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‘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…

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