Author Archives: IRIE
Mar
Battle of Adwa On March 1 every year, Ethiopia celebrates the Victory of Adwa (also spelled Adowa), the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian force led by Emperor Menilek II defeated the invading Italian forces on Sunday, March 1, 1896, in a decisive victory that prevented Italy’s campaign to expand its colonial […]
Mar
IRIE Guide Roots, Culture & Love™ The IRIE Guide is happening… On March 20, 2022, we will officially launch the IRIE Guide featuring Kaptin Barrett, Head of Music for one of the UK’s largest independent music festivals, Boomtown Fair, on the cover! IRIE Guide will be a lifestyle publication dedicated to Roots, Culture & Love. […]
Mar
Soom T GOOD Photography by: Danilo Moroni Soom T is a Scottish singer of Indian origin. After having campaigned alongside Y Network, a group of young representatives of Glasgow ghettos aiming to change their city, Soom T decides to devote her life to music to denounce injustices and talk about her daily struggles through militant […]
Mar
Dr. Sley Light Up The Throne Photography by: SUISEKA Kingsley Tingwei Ngu, aka DR. SLEY, was born in Buea, a city located at the foot of Mount Cameroon. He was the fifth child in a Christian family of seven. More and more, he discovered music as a weapon and a tool to express his true […]
Mar
Esther Sings I Want To Live Esther Sings, born Esther Antoine in the Caribbean Country of St. Lucia, is a singer, songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and recording artist residing in New York for the past 20 years. As a youngster in her homeland St. Lucia, she started singing at the age of eight, heavily influenced by […]
Mar
Cristiana Bucureci Can’t Get You Out of My Head Collage by: Cristiana Bucureci The independent label The Sound of Art to Come presents Romanian audio-visual artist Cristiana Bucureci’s debut EP, EROS. The album is produced in collaboration with the international producers: Transglobal Underground, Prince Fatty, and Marius Costache & Lil Obeah. This is a sound […]
Mar
State of Satta Moonlight Bubaloo Photography by: Misha Warren State of Satta is a seven-piece dub-fusion band based in England, brought together by a collective love of dub and reggae. The band fuses the rhythms of one-drop and steppas, bone-shaking bass lines, and resonant vocals to create a distinct groove-driven sound. Founded from the ashes […]