Following the widespread success of their eponymous debut album on London record label Elsden Music, award winning pianist and composer Yakir Arbib and Cameroonian virtuoso drummer and vocalist Conti Bilong, collectively known as Afro Baroque, present their new single Caravan, alongside a live launch at Crazy Coqs venue in the heart of Piccadilly.

Described by Jazzwise Magazine as having “palpable synergy”, also commenting that their “chemistry is irresistible”, Afro Baroque’s music has gained rave reviews at across a whole range of prestigious publications, as well as widespread radio support. Now the duo return with their unique version of the Duke Ellington classic Caravan – the song that galvanised this unlikely pairing following a chance meeting in a Paris studio.

Speaking of this experience, Yakir Arbib states that “something inexplicable happened. An instantaneous musical connection, resulting from the alchemy of this unlikely encounter.” The Afro Baroque re-interpretation of Caravan is similar only in melody, with an inimitable vibe that only its two protagonists could ever create. It is fortified by the duo’s collective philosophy “that now more than ever, we need connections, bridges, and strands of colour and beauty that connect opposite cultures, traditions, languages and religions together from across the world. Afro Baroque’s music is exactly that! We connect seemingly diametrically opposed worlds: the studious European counterpoint on one side, and the unstoppable force of joy, rhythm and dance coming from Africa on the other.”

Afro Baroque bring their dynamic happening of African singing and dancing rhythms enveloped by a warm colour pallet of baroque sounds and harmonies to London’s Crazy Coq’s on 19th May. Don’t miss this chance to witness their magic in action.