Join us on a musical journey across East London as we travel the London Overground from South to North. The Amersham Arms, Concrete and Cafe Oto are taking part in a single-wristband festival of music & place, connected by the East London Line.

From 7pm, each venue will host bands, with DJ sets afterwards in Concrete and the Amersham Arms. Dalston Eastern Curve Garden and the New Cross Inn will be hosting related programmes, also free to wristband holders.

Meanwhile the London Overground trains will host the 'Travelling Stage', with a lineup of upcoming musicians performing live in the trains between New Cross and Dalston.

Sound Tracks Festival website

SHABAKA AND THE SONS OF KEMET

The Sons of Kemet is a new quartet led by acclaimed saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings. It features the double drums of Tom Skinner and Seb Rochford and the adventurous tuba playing of Oren Marshall.

Shabaka Hutchings plays tenor sax, bass clarinet and clarinet. Described by the BBC as "one of the most eclectic and musically adventurous instrumentalists on the London jazz scene", Hutchings grew up in Barbados and studied clarinet at the Guildhall School of Music. One of the capitals busiest saxophonists he straddles both the avant garde and jazz orthodoxy leading the trio ZED-U and performing with Jazz Warriors, The London Improvisors Orchestra, The Heights, Louis Moholo, Charlie Hadens Liberation Orchestra, Jack DeJohnette All Stars, as well as Speech Debelle, Gary Crosbys Nu Troop and Red Snapper.

In September 2010 Hutchings was confirmed as a 'BBC New Generation Artist'.

'Shabaka is a veritable cauldron of creativity ... an emerging Brit-jazz star if ever there was one' Jazzwise

'A jazz all-rounder … equally at home delivering a highlight moment on Guy Barker's Big Band Britannia as he is with the decidedly left-field London Improvisers Orchestra' Financial Times

'A towering figure both physically and musically' Time Out



ELAN TAMARA

Elan Tamara genuinely sounds like no one else. Fascinated by Balinese Gamelan and Steve Reich, she makes music as uncategorisable, as heartfelt and beautifully otherworldly as anything you're likely to hear. Over two EPs she has carved out a space so unique and unclassifiable that people have fallen back on namechecking other female artists with a distinctive aesthetic and outlook – Nina Simone, Bjork, Laura Nyro and their ilk. Needless to say, she doesn't sound like them, either.

Her third EP, her first with Big Dada, shows Tamara developing her songwriting craft to new heights. With a voice that can be smooth and calming or raging and hurt, Tamara pulls long vocal lines and next level harmonies over the syncopated minimalism of her piano playing. This base is augmented by the playing of her band. The whole is then stretched and moulded into new shapes by up-and-coming producer Kwes (DELS, The Invisible, The xx, and now of Warp Records). The result is some of the most exciting, individual music around, music which deserves and rewards repeated listens and signals the arrival of a major new talent.



PILLARCAT

Conceived as a solo project in an East London basement, Pillarcat was set up by singer songwriter and guitarist Stephen Hodd. Originally a solo artist Stephen had a chance meeting with Pablo Tato (electric guitar) & Alberto Voglino (drums) students at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London. From this moment Pillarcat the band was born. In the last six months the trio have now also been joined by ‘This is my TV’ singer, Gitta, Virtuoso Cellist Alex Eichenberger and Moby’s bassist, Svetlana Vassileva.

Pillarcat are not afraid to cross boundaries & genres, defying labeling. They include elements of finger style electric guitar, progressive rhythms, sweeping strings, wide cinematic soundscapes & experimental folk.

KEMISTRY

Producer / singer duo The Kemistry formed in London in 2009 by a releasing a couple of homemade CDs and touring every known live venue in East London. The touring paid off - The Kemistry’s soul-laced melodies, poetic lyrics, and intriguing electronic production rapidly became a pet love of London’s live underground scene - a sound that no one could really pin down (not even the band!). Now in 2011, The Kemistry are set to independently release a new project ‘dilatare’ - 7 tracks in anticipation of their first ever album, while of course flexing their skills in a marathon of live shows.