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.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
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”.
St Helena Sessions
Professor Calculus has just sent us this link to a cracking mix of braziliAfro fonk…
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The Prof will be bringing his brand of afro-latin blends to the FFTANG! FFTANG! night at 93 Feet East on November 3rd. This has now been postponed to December 15th.
