160 bpm
Can’t sleep tonight, making sort of juxtaposions between Chicago’s footwork and South African’s shangaan. Oh gosh, check also out DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn mix for XLR8R.
Comboni
Recent discovery: ethio-eritrean club in Milan, winter turns better. Here’s just a brief taste… contemporary eritrean and ethiopian music, dancehall, reggaeton and hip hop. Take it as a postcard from from italian northern and extremely racist region.
Il linguaggio misterioso del tam tam
I found this flexi disc in a second hand shop, enchanted by the design…I would love to translate the lyrics in english… it’s not clear where and when this release came out, but in these times of colonial remembrance sounds familiar. Of course, add a huge amount of irony, please.
Boujeloud rise again
To keep an eye on contemporary african diggers, Frank Rynne’s Joujouka festival dates are fixed. As long as it had been an astonishing experience, I kindly recommend it. The fourth annual festival organised by the Master Musicians of Joujouka takes place in their village of Joujouka/Jajouka from 10-12 June 2011.www.joujouka.netbrianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com – Boujeloud cave, a picture...
Is Africa a country?
Credo sia coretto introdurre questo post in italiano. E’ una settimana circa che seguo con assiduità un dibattito nato su Africa is a country, in seguito a un post di Chief Boima, dj e blogger (ghettobassquake.com) afroamericano.Il post è molto dibattuto, e questo, di per sè, è già un ottimo segnale. Non sento necessario aggiungere...
Sarat Maharaj
Here’s an interview to Sarat Maharaj I’ve done in 2008 with my group Invernomuto for Check-in Architecture, a six months project dedicated to the exploration of contemporary european imaginary, on many levels. We took part of the project with a mission in Como (northern Italy) to interview Maharaj after a lecture at Fondazione Ratti, titled...
More on Shangaan Electro – via Marcus Boon
As waves of African diasporic music move back and forth across the Atlantic, futures and past collide. What remains of Afro-futurism today is the possibility of a dancehall, enabled by the internet other global networks, where anything, in any style, can emerge. Marcus Boon scrive queste righe all’interno della recensione di Shangaan Electro su The...
War on stereotypes 2
I was going to add another contribution on the War on stereotypes when I come across a work by Mark Boulos, a double screen installation recently showed at the Berlin Biennale.All That Is Solid Melts Into Air juxtapose Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) rituals and life in Niger Delta to Chicago...
Shangaan Electro
Just received the last compilation released by Honest Jon’s, this time from South African area, to reverberate the sounds of vuvuzelas now that the world cup is over. Shangaan Electro is a weird form of speed electro from Limpopo province, South Africa. “Shangaan is fast. While others play at 110, we are at 180, 182,...
