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Tuesday, Jan 12 2016, 6PM
Japan. Jazztronik is a Japanese music group by the Tokyo-based DJ/producer/pianist Ryota Nozaki, that does not have fixed members. (a dj collective, if you will)
Nigeria. Uwaifo made history in Nigeria when he won the first Golden record in Nigeria, West Africa and Africa for his song "Joromi" in 1996.
Australia. The Okapi Guitar Band started performing in 1986, making them Australia’s longest surviving Afropop group.
Kingston. Gregory Anthony Isaacs was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in The New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae".
Tilburg. This band is Balkan rock! Check out their website!www.projektrakija.com
From rootsworld.com "Few groups have had a larger impact on Afro-Colombian music than Son Palenque, the vibrant ensemble that helped develop palenquera music and ushered in the popular champeta musical genre and dance."
Seattle. This band played the Jazzfest during Mardi Gras this year! Playing January 29 at Jazzbones Tacoma
India. Check out pitchfork's write up on this project! pitchfork.com
The Guardian labeled this one of their albums of 2014. Mo Kolours is Joseph Deenmamode, half British, half Mauritian.
Bareto is a music group from Peru, famous for making their own versions of Peruvian Cumbia classic hits.
Lebanon/ france. He discovered the saxophone during his time on the boy scouts.
France. French DJ with strong association with Gypsy culture. He has production credits on a Manu Chao album.
Performing live at Meany Hall - April 9, 2016. Anoushka Shankar is an Indian sitar player and composer. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Norah Jones
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Judy Mowatt OD is a Jamaican reggae artist who rose to fame as part of the trio the "I Threes", the backing vocalists for Bob Marley & The Wailers. She is the main voice of the Gaylettes.
"Afrosound is used to denote a thrilling and sometimes freaky soundtrack that chronicles the acceptance, evolution, diffusion and mainstreaming of the country's rich Afro-coastal heritage over a 30-year period. The music was taken from the Caribbean and largely agrarian savannah." From the official Munster records website.
Jorge is also known for his role as Knockout Ned in the 2002 film City of God.
Spanish version of Jimi Hendrix track. Los Yorks, from Lima, Peru were a garage rock band active in the 1960s. Despite their relatively short tenure, the band was one of the most successful groups in their native country during the era
Uwe Schmidt, also known as Atom™, Atom Heart, or Señor Coconut, is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel, and aciton (acid-reggaeton) music.
Formed in the late 60's in a nightclub in Sao Paulo, the trio has worked with artists including Seu Jorge, Suba and Bebel Gilberto.
She is a world class piano prodigy from Tokyo. She seems to play everything from Arvo Part to Mozart, and has had some level of involvement with the Seattle Symphony!
London/ Bangkok/ New Orleans. From his official Facebook: "Telemachus is primarily a composer, a sound engineer, and a cloistered pedant deeply immersed in the past."
This Turkish composer began playing at age five, but studied business. It was only after receiving his degree that he began to pursue a career in music.
France. He is a bit of a vagabond, known to wander from the Congo, to Italy, Canada, and back to France looking for inspiration for his music.
Brooklyn. Antibalas is a Brooklyn-based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra.
Tom Zé is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil.
New York’s melting pot of Puerto Rican, Cuban and Afro-American musicians led to stunning culture clashes in the 1960s and 70s when Latin styles mixed with Funk, Disco, Soul and Jazz to produce new hybrids such as Boogaloo, Latin Jazz, Disco and Salsa.