{"id":2258672,"date":"2026-01-30T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258672"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:34:55","slug":"this-new-event-series-aims-to-bring-spirituality-back-to-live-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-new-event-series-aims-to-bring-spirituality-back-to-live-music\/","title":{"rendered":"This new event series aims to bring spirituality back to live music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>16-time Oscar-nominated film <\/span><em><span>Sinners <\/span><\/em><span>might flirt with the fantastical, but they definitely got one thing right: there\u2019s a profound spirituality associated with live music. It is this mystical quality that new monthly live event series Conjuring, created by London-based multi-instrumentalist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/65041\/1\/tony-njoku-stands-for-the-decolonisation-of-modern-classical-music\">Tony Njoku<\/a>, aims to celebrate \u2013 featuring unique, one-time live improvisation sessions from different musicians each month at Brixton\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/clubcheek\/?hl=en\">Club Cheek<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBe it exploitative algorithms or staunch capitalists and tech lords mining our insecurities for profit, there are a lot of things that are destroying culture and isolating people from each other right now,\u201d says Njoku of his decision to found the event. \u201cI believe improvisation in music is a great way of practising deep connection with other people, it helps remove any buffers that might distance you from others and really brings you into your body and the moment. I\u2019m hoping this event series becomes a sort of simulacrum for cultural change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was from this feeling that Njoku landed on the name Conjuring, which he believes captures these spiritual and communal functions of live music. \u201cFor me, music is a form of healing, [a way] to invoke, \u2018conjure\u2019, channel, or manifest deep emotional, ancestral, and metaphysical states,\u201d he explains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Conjuring\u2019s inaugural event takes place on March 19, featuring performances from <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/68569\/1\/fashion-east-25th-anniversary-jawara-alleyne-simone-rocha-autumn-2025-issue\"><span>Dazed cover star<\/span><\/a><span> Xiaoqiao, British-Malaysian-Chinese composer and multi-instrumentalist Lucinda Chua, saxophone improv wiz Ben Vince, and London-based Palestinian composer and oud master Saied Silbak. \u201cThese are all musicians who know their instruments quite deeply,\u201d Njoku explains of the lineup. \u201cI\u2019ve seen all these guys play and always leave their performances learning something new about the instruments they played.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Each improvised session will be based around a separate theme, with March\u2019s event revolving around the idea of \u2018rituals\u2019. The performance will then be recorded and published as part of a long-term public archive and radio show on Resonance FM, with select cuts set to be released on Njoku\u2019s newly-founded label Studio Njoku.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/events\/2359113\"><span>Grab tickets to Conjuring\u2019s first event here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function () {\nn.callMethod ?\nn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n}; if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n; n.loaded = !0; n.version = '2.0'; n.queue = []; t = b.createElement(e); t.async = !0;\nt.src = v; s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n}(window,\ndocument, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '357833301087547');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.dazeddigital.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16-time Oscar-nominated film Sinners might flirt with the fantastical, but they definitely got one thing right: there\u2019s a profound spirituality associated with live music. It is this mystical quality that new monthly live event series Conjuring, created by London-based multi-instrumentalist Tony Njoku, aims to celebrate \u2013 featuring unique, one-time live improvisation sessions from different musicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22092,26063,26062,26064,26065,26066,26067,26068,22767,21799,26060,26061,21800],"class_list":["post-2258672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-art","tag-dazed","tag-dazed-confused","tag-dazed-confused-magazine","tag-dazed-and-confused","tag-dazed-and-confused-magazine","tag-dazedconfused","tag-dazeddigital","tag-fashion","tag-film","tag-ideas","tag-ideas-sharing-network","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/This-new-event-series-aims-to-bring-spirituality-back-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258674,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258672\/revisions\/2258674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}