Musical Muses
My thoughts
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Please browse the photos for last years gig photos. Cork Street, Frieze Festival; Woolwich Works, Rhythm Passport and Shambala Sankofa Stage: Emma Dabiri’s Disobedient Body Book Launch and Recording with Ariwo. Photos Here by Eddie Romero. Photos above by Eddie Romero, Mish Aminoff and Choir members.
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The London Lucumi Choir is a choir which explores the songs of the African Diaspora as expressed in Cuba. It is also interested in comparative regional song studies. The songs that we sing not only are still sung within ceremony and within living Orisha traditions, but they are part of a tradition which historically has
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To all intents and purposes 2020 has been a very weird time for all, not to mention musicians and artists, and also not forgetting community choirs. There has been so much documentation in the past regarding Choirs, singing and the health benefits. To come to terms with the fact that if we sing together inside
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The songs we sing in the most part are song sequences from the Liturgy of Orisha Songs that are sung in public ceremonies. They are not self contained songs per-se but are song sequences that are strung together determined by various conditions. There are differences between what may happen in ceremony and singing these songs
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4 Star Review: Songlines Issue 137 ( Spring 2018) “Now 12 Years Old, The London Lucumi Choir continues to do extra-ordinary community centred arts work and celebrates the rich syncretistic cultures of the African Diaspora while producing powerfully unifying roots music. Subtitled, Praise Songs for Oshun and Obatala in reference to two key Yoruba deities-forces of
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Our third CD : This CD was launched on the Movimientos Label. We were proud to be part of La Linea 2017 . La Linea has been promoting High Quality Latin Music since 2001 and We have been very honoured to have supported Artists such as Eliades Ocha, Buika during the festival in addition to launching
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We did some great gigs last year. We have some wonderful photos to document them 05-05- 2016 “Lullaby for Naila” Photos by Jonathan Martinez This gig was to launch the Cd “lullaby for Naila” Which was a celebration of ancestors. The story of one small girl and the story of us all. Please click on
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Over the summer we were working hard on a Video project. We were filming a Video to promote a recording which will be pre-released on the Movimientos Label next year. Our recording is a cover version of the Ibeyi’s composition, “River”. We were happy to collaborate with Husband and Wife team, FireSoul Media, who are
Everyday thoughts of a Lucumi Choir Director 