Music

“An extraordinarily accomplished debut, then, by a band with something to say.”

– Jane Cornwell (Songlines) Orla album review ★★★★

2017 LUKAS Award Winners: Alternative Act of the Year

“A daring new take on Venezuelan music by a collective of London musicians… re-arranged and jazzified… with an evocative, edgy sound.”

Jose Luis, Latino Life

Alakati is a group of five London musicians that explores the meeting of Cypriot traditional music, jazz and Brazilian music. Led by Cypriot guitarist Iakovos Loukas, Alakati creates original music that combines those styles, as well as reimagining folk songs.

The Dalston Gypsy Jazz Trio was born in a bar in East London, nurtured lovingly in rehearsal spaces and raised on the road from stage to stage across Europe.

The Greg Gottlieb SEXtet brings together songs and stories collected across Europe, forged in the multicultural hearth of East London, with the glorious musical sunshine of Greg’s homeland – Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia.

Videos

Highlights

LIVE MUSIC

o2 Shepherd’s Bush Innervisions Festival supporting Gilberto Gil, with Caravela 2019 :: Ronnie Scotts (main stage) supporting Chucho Valdes and IRAKERE, with Leo Blanco Trio 2015 :: BBC3 Proms Up Late at the Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, with Bahla 2015 :: Festival of the Between Arts Council-funded festival at Vortex Jazz Club, with Bahla 2016 :: Trio Subtonic (UK Tour) with Portland, Oregon-based Trio Subtonic, signed to Ropeadope Records (Snarky Puppy, Christian Scott, etc) 2016 :: The Jazz Bar (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) with Valery Ponomarev (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers) 2015 :: Vintage New Year’s Eve at Southbank Centre, with Benoit Viellefon and His Orchestra 2014 :: Premier’s Australian Citizenship Ceremony Suncorp Stadium Southbank 2009 :: Lord Mayor’s Gala Ball Brisbane Town Hall 2009 :: Melissa and the Cunning Accompanist Adelaide Fringe; Sydney; Melbourne 2008 :: Mischievous Minx Brisbane Cabaret Festival 2006

FILM / TV / THEATRE

Allied (2016, Paramount Pictures – on-screen musician with Benoit Viellefon)

Theory of Everything (2014, Working Title, 1 Oscar win and 4 nominations – on-screen musician with the Top Shelf Band)

Feuilleton, épisode 4: le festival swing Twinwood (FRANCE2 prime time news featurette, with Benoit Viellefon and His Orchestra @ Twinwood Vintage Festival 2015)

Hair, season 2 episode 2
appearance on BBC2, with Benoit Viellefon and His Orchestra 2015

Gatsby West End musical performing onstage w Benoit Viellefon and his Hot Club @ the Arts Theatre, 2015 :: Rugby Tonight appearance on BT Sport, with Benoit Viellefon and His Orchestra 2014 :: No Man’s Land composed and performed solo double bass score for Glass-eye Theatre 2014 :: Oh, Lady Be Good Award-winning cabaret show starring Melissa Western, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011, 2012 + UK Rural Touring

ASSOCIATED ACTS

Bahla // Trio Subtonic // Leo Blanco // Valery Ponomarev // Benoit Viellefon and His Orchestra // Melissa Western // Top Shelf Jazz Band // Mike Hobart’s Urban Jazz Collective // Terri Quaye // Giovanni Cacioppo // FUR // Tnee // Vimala Rowe // Harry Sankey Quartet // Sylvia Schmidt // Georgetown (Projecto do Brasil) // Nell Greco // New Score Trio // Chromatic Quartet // Pedro Velasco // Rowan Hudson // Cris Tanzi Quartet // Dan Wood Trio // Harry Christelis Trio // Ray Sandoval // Sarah Collyer // Noa Bodner // Mojo Wellington // Rachel Maby // Claire Furlong // John Bringetto // Gregori Hoffman’s HAVONACRAFT // Joshua Hatcher // Vilija Leitanaite // Michele Paccagnella Trio // Dixie Strollers // The Red Roosters // Emily O’Hara // Juanma Nieto // Fernando’s Kitchen // Andy Kyte // Simone Alexander // Peter Coldham // Andrew Hartman // Birgitta Flick