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6th Rockit Festival

ByMatthias Kirsch 11/11/202412/05/2024

The sixth edition of this year’s Rockit Festival, located at Groningen’s SPOT, ended on Saturday night with a rousing, highly entertaining, and crazy set by MonoNeon. The bassist, whose real name is Dywane Thomas Jr. and who is known for his hilariously extravagant costumes, also released a pretty spacy Moog EP earlier this year called…

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Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

ByMatthias Kirsch 04/22/202404/22/2024

London-born saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings declared earlier this year that he would take a hiatus from performing the instrument with his bands Sons Of Kemet, Shabaka and The Ancestors, and The Comet Is Coming. Instead, he changed to the flute for his solo album “Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace” which came out on Impulse! Records…