Equally skilled at rhythmic jazz improvisations and classical concertos, South African Abel Selaocoe introduces us to the works he thinks every cellist should master
Please note: this concert takes place in the garden of the Peruchet Marionette Museum, in the open air. So bring a jumper and a mackintosh in case of cold or rain. After many concerts at home and abroad, the band Tamala (“travellers”) is back to present their second album, Lumba.
A prolific collaborator who has travelled extensively since leaving his Cuban homeland, Omar Sosa talks to Jane Cornwell about his fact-finding tour of East Africa and his new album, which sees him collaborate with some of the region’s leading folkloric musicians Omar Sosa (photo: Massimo Mantovani)
Afro-Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa has always been a seeker, an artist driven to explore African musical cultures and their connections to his own ancestral roots. Along the way he has linked the traditional and contemporary, the acoustic and electronic, with forward-thinking solo work and collaborations with musicians from Latin America and across the African diaspora. “Most of the Cuban music people know about is from the 1940s onwards,” says the Camagüey-born award-winner, Zooming from his home in Barcelona. “But if we look deeper there are cultural and musical reminders
Music reviews: Glen Hansard, Reijseger/Fraanje/Sylla and more
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January 22, 2021 4.25pm
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FOLK ROCK
★★★★
What this Opera House show offered was the physical punch of a full band, with brass and strings, led by a rousing collectivist singer, matched with the close-quarters personal effect of a solo show where Hansard centred everything in a one-on-one atmosphere of joy and wonder. As someone who was there, I can confirm hearing it again still induces shivers. In
When Your Mind’s Made Up, which begins small, eases into a light jazz groove over which guitar sparkles, and then increases its tempo, temperature and force until it twice peaks, Hansard and band push through everything. In