When State saw Ophelia perform alongside Afrobeat legend Tony Allen at last weekend’s Festival Of World Cultures, we weren’t the only one who were deeply impressed – with Allen himself declaring his admiration for the Dublin based rapper and singer. Her appearance both as part of Afronova and with her own collaborators Redsquare made total [...]
I was listening to music tonight and shuffled onto a song I recorded sophomore year of college in the basement of one of the “hippier” dorms on campus. It brought back memories of drinking Carlo Rossi jug wine from plastic water bottles, and the time I got scratched by one of the squirrels that inhabited [...]
Cadence for my francophone people. Cadence is a similar to that of calypso. An music form created by Dominicans (not from the Dominican Republic but from Dominica) living in the neighbouring French Antilles