As an East London boy, I was not aware of the Punjabi dub/roots/reggae crossover in Southall. This short is about the car culture there, but loads of interesting musical background too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8onolDc-sI&t=452s Here’s a beautiful bit of dub by Kitma, one of the artists from the https://www.vedicroots.co.uk|Vedic Roots label: https://open.spotify.com/track/37AgrgBtB38onVXypxm8mZ?si=eb80b163319e4822 and here’s the 7", the label put out: https://open.spotify.com/track/2SF5YhAvYc7J93u3ORif0T?si=55d1744846eb4906
Wow, just got introduced to https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bQOdXdA0JLHAVHavCMqs8?si=0nK4OuqeTbGKFsCemVUhbg|Desperate Journalist via https://martinbelam.com/2023/gig-reviews-march-2023/|Martin Belam’s newsletter Hollow is amazing https://open.spotify.com/track/1NlFZKeIoY18lUmt3Fe98u?si=5ad019fa50b74a4f and the entirity of https://open.spotify.com/album/5XhDgDdyao3VgjpznV3YFL?si=cWC-4Z7BRfeMPtTgML5R-g is just brilliant. Going to hoover through the back catalogue now This monthly series is probably more for my benefit than yours, but maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll straight [...]