Eddi Reader is perhaps Scotland’s greatest living female voice. In 2020, she celebrates her 40th year on stage with a 40 Years Live concert tour.
The genre-defying 'mallet guitar' ensemble Ex-Easter Island Head return to Kings Place in expanded quartet form to premiere new material from their forthcoming album.
With the explosions of a pop rock cabaret and the grooves of funk, ADG7 (Ak Dan Gwang Chil) draw on the sacred shamanic and secular ritual music and folk song of the Hwanghaedo region in western North Korea.
In the ten years since winning Best Newcomer at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Sam Carter has earned a reputation for vivid, narrative-driven songwriting and captivating live performances.
Stick In The Wheel’s work is rooted in traditional music and song, informed by the modern electronic music that grew out of their hybrid East London heritage. Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter use centuries-old work-songs
Dressed for the closing night of the original Dadaist nightclub Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, they sound like they are playing jazz at the end of the world’s end. They are like nothing else. Challenging, morphing, eclectic, ethereal – engaging.
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The critically-acclaimed 12 Ensemble return to Kings Place with a specially curated programme of works by Max Richter.
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The critically-acclaimed 12 Ensemble return to Kings Place with a specially curated programme of works by Max Richter.
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The music of vulpes takes the listener along on the pursuit of spiritual release in the age of relentless consumerism.
Listed by NPR as one of the Top 100 Young Composers of today, Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab carries in her music a seasoned tranquility that inspires calm to whoever listens.
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Napalm Death, Edward Elgar, The Sugarbabes, William Lawes, Annie Lennox, The Clash and Radiohead are all mashed together in arrangements that will challenge and delight.
Co-curated by Serious for EFG London Jazz Festival and Kings Place for Luminate, we welcome Japanese folk singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba for a characteristically dream-inspired gig in Hall Two.
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Experience echo, the new immersive film installation from long-time collaborators composer Cassie Kinoshi (Artist in residence for London Unwrapped) and visual artist Anne Verheij.
Experience echo, the new immersive film installation from long-time collaborators composer Cassie Kinoshi (Artist in residence for London Unwrapped) and visual artist Anne Verheij.
Swedish phenomenon Peter Sandberg brings his new project Midnattssol to Kings Place for EFG London Jazz Festival, a conceptual record in tribute to the land and folklore of the Swedish midnight sun.
With their slow-stepping, spacious urban dubscapes, Space Afrika harnesses ambient, Detroit techno and shades of early nineties Sheffield with a fresh and open approach to composition — this is dub techno stripped-down, sealed in a time capsule and sent back from the near future. Friends for almost two decades, the two Joshua's formed Space Afrika after years of listening to music together, sequestered by harsh Northern winters. Heavily inspired by the industrial architecture of Northwest England and notions of travel, their sonic framework evokes images of rust and disintegrating concrete, and sensations of movement and redemption — exuding a distorted analogue soul offering escape into their overcast skies.
A night of live improvisation celebrating the different sounds present in London today, led by Iranian electronic musician Pouya Ehsaei. Pouya will be joined by Ghanaian-born percussionist, vocalist and composer Afla Sackey, bandleader and keyboard player Sarah Tandy and Wonky Logic, an upcoming force on the left-field hip-hop scene.
Usher’s Island sees the coming together of five of the most acclaimed and influential names in Irish Traditional music – Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, Michael McGoldrick and John Doyle
Pop polymath Lafawndah presents her latest album, The Fifth Season, joined by a cast assembled from some of London's most exciting musicians
Operating on a plane between avant-garde indie, bubbling electronica and cosmic psychedelia, London group Voka Gentle have an addictive, amorphous sound.
Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra are joined by one of London Unwrapped’s Artists in Residence, the composer, band-leader and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi for a special new London Unwrapped collaboration with members of Mercury Prize-nominated ensemble SEED.
Ligeti Quartet return to Kings Place with a showcase of new music by Anna Meredith and Christian Mason, two of the most influential and celebrated composers on the London scene.
London Unwrapped Artist in Residence Cassie Kinoshi (SEED. Nérija, Kokoroko) presents a curated night of three forward-reaching artists from our capital and beyond.
Mark Simpson makes his Luminate debut with a programme of clarinet and electronics/loops featuring world premieres, and contemporary classics by Steve Reich and Jonathan Harvey.