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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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Lockdown has been an interesting experience, for a choir director, it has thrown many balls in my court, challenging me on how to manage the remote singing experience. I was really quite surprised to receive requests and commissions during this time, and one of the commissions we received was to host the International Slavery Remembrance
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We are really proud to present our Fourth Album. ” FIRE AND WATER: Fuego Y Agua, Ina Ati Omi”. We worked so hard over a period of time to learn the sequences and harmonies and we recorded 8 of the numbers completely in our favourite studio in Nottingham over one weekend! DOWNLOAD “FIRE
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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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Baba Fururu Ofun Ruru Video This is the background story relating to the pre release and free download. It was released to celebrate Obatala. Our release is a collaboration with Candomblé Artist, Ricardo Axé and mixed by London based producer Raf Riley. We chose Raf because of his particular sound and the fact that he
London Lucumi Choir, Director’s Blog
Everyday thoughts of a Lucumi Choir Director 