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Tuesday, Jun 29 2021, 7PM
Prof. Sir Victor Uwaifo is a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor. He also served as commissioner for arts and culture in Edo State under the government of Lucky Igbinedion. Uwaifo is famous for his joromi music
"Motown meets West Africa on Eboni Band's self-titled 1980 debut album featuring Motown session musicians and Fred Wesley with production and arrangements from Motown legends Art Stewart and Greg Middleton." -wearebusybodies.bandcamp.com
France. Singer/Songwriter/DJ/Producer and part of the Bordeaux collective called Zimpala.
"Moroccan-French power quartet, Bab L’ Bluz, reclaim the blues for North Africa. Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, Bab L’ Bluz are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco’s ‘nayda’ youth movement – a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija."-bablbluz.bandcamp.com
"I discovered Nuri after a friend (danke Parole Emil!) has lost a blanket I had borrowed to him. As an compensation for the loss he gave me a record, which he said was his favorite new musical discovery, thats why he had bought 3 of them. It was Nuris first Album "Nuri - Drup". When I came home and listened I immediately fell in love with the fusion of afro, trap, reggae and bass and I started playin this album in my gigs. When I played my first pandemic DJ stream I opened my set with „Bouderbel“ and let Nuri know up front, after this we stayed in touch and when Nuri invited M.RUX and me to contribute a Remix to his second Album „IRUN“ no questions were asked."-Martha (Berlin)
Short-lived, provocative psychedelic folk band featuring members of the Meridian Brothers, Frente Cumbiero, Ondatropica, and Asdrubal started by University students in Bogota, Colombia. -allmusic
"Shintaro Sakamoto is a Japanese musician, singer/songwriter, and producer. He was a founding member and the frontman for the underground Japanese psychedelic rock band Yura Yura Teikoku."-wiki
"Yellow Magic Orchestra is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto.The group is considered influential and innovative in the field of popular electronic music. They were pioneers in their use of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, computers, and digital recording technology, and effectively anticipated the "electropop boom" of the 1980s."-wiki
"Mashrou’ Leila (sometimes transliterated as Leila's Project) is a Lebanese four-member indie rock band. The band formed in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2008 as a music workshop at the American University of Beirut." -wiki
"Keigo Oyamada, also known by his moniker Cornelius, is a Japanese musician and producer who co-founded Flipper's Guitar, an influential Shibuya-kei band, and subsequently embarked on a solo career."-wiki
Marcos Garcia, founding member of Antibalas and Dakataris. Son of a pianist and DJ. He played all the instruments, sang and produced his first solo release Manifest Tone, Vol. 1. LA based, originally from NJ
11th studio full length intended to be released on the 100th birthday of the Tour. It's the band's highest charting album, giving them their first number one hit in their home country of Germany.
Originally from Chad and Senegal, one of France's most influential rap artists.
Birthname, Lucien Ginsburg, Serge Gainsbourg, French singer/songwriter/filmmaker/actor/author. Considered one of the world's most influential musicians. -wiki
SF based artist who began as a teenager in his Dad's Klezmer band. Went on to join the Afrolicious party crew and perform around the world.
Read about this collaboration and the many others Angelique Kidjo has done, including with Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Celia Cruz. www.rollingstone.com
Nigerian Yoruba musician.
Recorded live at the Moore Theater in 1988.
Beijing based duo of Tom Ng and Joshua Frank. pitchfork.com
Features Kristy MacColl and Johnny Marr (Smiths). From the last studio release, Naked, by the Talking Heads.
Founded in 1985 in Portugal by João Peste. They have recorded more than a dozen albums
Brooklyn-based Pakistani "Aftab’s liminal sound floats between classical minimalism and new age, Sufi devotional poetry and electronic trance, jazz structures and states of pure being."-aroojaftab.bandcamp.com
"beyi is an Afro-French Cuban musical duo consisting of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz. The duo sings in English, French, Spanish and Yoruba, a language spoken by their ancestors before being taken to Cuba as slaves in the 1700s. In Yoruba, Ibeyi (Ìbejì) means "twins". -wiki
See the incredible live in studio of these Tuvan throat singers, interviewed by DJ Rhythma www.youtube.com Tuva, a Russian Republic, sits on the borders of Russia and Mongolia
"The Bombay Royale is an 11-piece Australian band fronted by singers Parvyn Kaur Singh and Shourov Bhattacharya and led by Andy Williamson. The band performs original music that blends funk, disco and pop music with the classical and folk music of India, much like the soundtracks of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood movies." -wiki
Debut release from singer and actor based in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Leader and tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings teams up with South African musicians
Soccer player and musician from Brazil. He had a friendship with Liza Minelli that led her to participate in carnival in the 70's. He died at the young age of 46 in a car accident.
"'Jika Jika' is an audaciously sassy version of Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message'. featuring the late great Sipho Gumede - in his 'Boogie Man' guise and prolific producer Greg Cutler, who worked on over 300 records in the 70s and 80s. -youtube
"For those that don't know, Kaidi Tatham is a legendary multi-instrumentalist. Once dubbed "the UK's Herbie Hancock" by Benji B, he's a virtuoso on the keys and a true innovator in sound production as one of the original creators of the Broken Beat sound." -kaiditatham.bandcamp.com
"Songhoy Blues is a desert blues music group from Timbuktu, Mali. The band was formed in Bamako after being forced to leave their homes during the civil conflict and the imposition of Sharia law." -wiki
Cut Chemist was born Lucas MacFadden in New York. He relocated to Los Angeles sometime before college and has been based there ever since. He was previously a member of the hip-hop group Jurassic 5 as well as the Latin/hip-hop fusion group, Ozomatli.
Here, he samples and reworks Astrud Gilberto's 1966 recording of "Berimbau.": www.djdmac.com