Ríoghnach Connolly wins RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award
Ríoghnach Connolly of The Breath wins Best Folk Singer at the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards, 2025.
Thu, 27 February 25
Bab L’ Bluz – Bangoro (Gitkin Remix) released
Bab L' Bluz have released a new remix for the track 'Bangoro', a song from their second album Swaken. The remix is by Gitkin.
‘Bangoro’ is a track taken from Bab L’ Bluz’s critically-acclaimed second album Swaken. In its album form ‘Bangoro’ is an electro-yelping, ’70s riffing, psychedelic blues-rock excursion that veers into West Africa, but for this remix the song is artfully recrafted by Gitkin, renowned exponent of cowboy funk and the hypnotic melodies of desert blues.
Gitkin, based in New Orleans, brings his own inimitable take on psychedelic cumbia and a good dose of Southern funk and intertwines it with a reverb drenched twang and the pulse of Latin American rhythms to deliver a remix which perfectly blends his world with that of Bab L’ Bluz.
On Tour
13 MAR GLASGOW Stereo, UK
14 MAR MANCHESTER Yes (Pink Room), UK
15 MAR LONDON The Jazz Café, UK
20 MAR AMSTERDAM Tolhuistuin, NL
21 MAR NIJMEGEN Doornroosje, NL
22 MAR MARSEILLE Babel Music XP, FR
03 APR MADRID Fias Festival, ES
05 APR OOSTENDE Push the Button Festival
17 APR SAUGERTIES The Local, USA
18 APR HOLYOKE De La Luz Soundstage, USA
19 APR NEW YORK Joe’s Pub, USA
25 APR LAFAYETTE Festival International, USA
26 APR LAFAYETTE Festival International, USA
01 MAY LITTLE ROCK Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, USA
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Released 10 May 2024
Welcome to the world of Swaken, the second album by French-Moroccan power quartet, Bab L' Bluz. Recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, England, written partly in Morocco — the birthplace of frontwoman Yousra Mansour — and mostly across a world tour that took them from Adelaide, Barcelona and New York to Essaouira in Morocco, Lomé in Togo and Dougga in Tunisia. Eleven tracks that spark and pulse with kinetic, pedal-to-the-metal energy.
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