Los Chinches
Los Chinches are an “amazonian cumbia” band from London, playing chicha, a peruvian style of cumbia.
From thee press release…
Los Chinches interpretation of Chicha music is very much their own, with backgrounds in many musical styles from rock n’ roll to jazz to Latin, fusing London’s punk attitude and spirit with timeless Amazonian vibes. Their sound and live performance is a psychedelic burst of energy driven by a fierce frontline of percussion.
And here’s the mighty Toy Selectah bringing the bomp to their new track Chicha Love…
Muevete!
FFTANG!’s Huskiii is playing a Latin American set at Notting Hill Arts Club tonight. Check the flyer for deets.
Algo Más De 13th Tribe
Check out this slice of “abstract world glitch pop” from the insanely prolific 13th Tribe
St Helena Sessions
In lieu of Professor Calculus playing at FFTANG! FFTANG! we’re reposting his cracking mix of braziliAfro fonk…
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Come down to 93 Feet East on December 15th to hear him play his brand of Brazilian psych, funk, Tropicalia, Afro-beats and bobs.
Culture Jam
An exhibition of Lithuanian culture will be happening tonight at East Gallery on London’s Brick Lane. Or on Sat in Birmingham. Check HERE for details.
FFTANG! FFTANG! will be playing at the after party which gives us the excuse to post some Lithuanian hiphop.
CORAS – NA ZAGRANKE (ft. Skazo)
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Outhouse – Ruhabi
Saw these guys play a few weeks ago and the drumming was incredible. The album’s a colab between UK jazz musicians and Sabar percussionists from The Gambia. Listen below and buy here if your jazz boat is suitably rocked.
DJ iZem
Come down to 93 Feet East next Tuesday to catch DJ IZEM from GROOVALIZACION radio play blazing tropical-meets-western-grooves mashups. Cumbia, samba, reggae and hip-hop kindle the audio burn…
A bit of info on the station…
Groovalizacion project comes from a radio programme called « Musicas Migratorias » (migratory music) on UPV Radio Valencia, Spain, a social an artistic initiative born in 2006. Its main purpose was to promote communication between alien cultures through art and instigate integration and dialogue amongst our multicultural societies. It started as a project performed by artists from various countries and dedicated to this intercultural dialogue.
The brightest civilizations and golden ages have always been the result of melting pots and combinations of different traditions and knowledge. Groovalizacion likes to believe that progress comes from mutual understanding and tolerance. That it also comes from the pleasure to meet foreign cultures, to taste the subtle contrasts which enrich our perception.
Groovalizacion wants to give a voice to the new musical scenes, to create a place where traditions and modernity freely mingle: Fusion, world, electro, Celtic music, flamenco, jazz, tango, reggae, ska, soul, urban sounds, bossa-nova, klezmer, raï… There is no end to the list of sounds and perfumes which, build identities, bring dialogue and food for thought.
Groovalizacion is a music lab, a meeting place and one of cultural exchange. Its doors are wide open to the curious kind eager to try the cocktail a la Groovalizacion, rich in flavours and ingredients collected along the way and the different latitudes. It’s a torrid, fun and passionate atmosphere which will take you from São Paulo to Casablanca, Berlin to Dakar, Bombay to Buenos-Aires, Hong-Kong to la Havana…
Cuban Scottish Rastafari Hip-Hop
THE 13th TRIBE have been playing on the FFTANG! stereo solidly for the last coupla days and this slice of latin/afro hiphop won’t leave my headspace… Hailing from Glasgow and featuring Cuban vocalist Nicheflow (with shouts out to Jah Rastafari and Africa) Negro sums up everything about our night in 205 perfect seconds.
And unlike Raekwon they aint only built for Cuban links – 13T’s back-catalogue features musicians and vocalists from Haiti, Cameroun, Spain, Mali, Venezuela, Senegal, Ethiopia and Portugal to name a few. And the awesome co-produced VOCA project (which provided the vox in this cut) is definitely worth delving into for afrocoustic goodness. I’m told the forthcoming album is “the mutts”.
