Palm Wine’s picò work in progress
Thanks to Fabian Altahona/Africolombia I’m having my own Picò from Barranquilla, Colombia.Here more info about Picòs soundsystem culture and an interview to Fabian I’ve translated a while ago (in italian). The painter William Gutierrez is working on the canvas right now. I asked him to interpret an excpert from The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos...
Fire, more fire
James Franco is blurred in the background, like a white marble statue.On July 12, Dutty Artz will release Kalup and Franco’s Turn It Up EP. More info here.For many reasons I’m dazed by these images. I’m going deeply into Kalup Linzy’s work via his website, to be taken smoothly, as a tv serie. Maybe I’ll...
Kaleidoscope – annual workshop Episode 5/5
Workshop – Episodio 5/5 Que Mango! 27 Giugno 2011 ore 18.30Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milano Sicuramente molti partecipanti agli episodi precedenti degli workshop avranno descritto quello di Simone Bertuzzi / Palm Wine come un’indagine aperta sulla musica ‘esotica’, ‘tropicale’ o ‘africana’. Forse è il momento di creare ancor più confusione e abbandonare definitivamente i testi e...
The Past is the Future Inverted!
Yesterday night I saw an astonishing perfomance by the brasilian berlin based duo Distruktur (Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn). The occasion was Tudo É, a three days of live performances and exhibition curated by Andrea Lissoni and Alberto Salvadori in Florence. Maga Bo played after, thanks Bo for the good vibrations. For some reason it...
Casablanca ✈ Joujouka
(partly written on June 5th) — I’m on the flight back to Milan. I spent the latest 24 hours in Joujouka for the first night of MMOJ festival organized as usual by Frank Rynne (here the report of last year edition and a report from my days in Tangier – in italian). I won’t talk...
Casablanca Pt. 2
GeoTagged, [N33.59252, E7.61468] Tapes are on print. Fesmaatic (a printing company and record label which releases many moroccan contemporary music) is doing its best to try to give me 100 copies by this afternoon.I will leave for Joujouka tomorrow early morning and will stay there for the first night of the festival, looking forward to...
Casablanca
GeoTagged, [N33.59254, E7.61471] It’s raining in Casablanca. I’m in Morocco again, exactly one year later.I’m releasing a tape with some recordings of the Master Musicians of Joujouka I did last year during MMOJ festival.This is the first public announcement but in fact I’m working on it since last september.The project became even more interesting when...
Non piangere
Last week during the fourth episode of the workshop I’m running at Kaleidoscope Project Space I played Baako by Champion Dj. It’s been discussed already in the past over the net, especially at Dj Rupture’s Mudd Up program on wfmu and on Wayne Marshall’s blog.A couple of days ago I’ve finally bought my copy of...
Kaleidoscope – annual workshop Episode 4/5
Workshop – Episodio 4/5 Brahim Jones Joujouka very stoned 9 Maggio 2011 ore 18.30Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milano Pare che la questione dell’autenticità affligga da sempre il continente africano.Cosa può oggi essere considerato autentico? Un antico rituale sufi di un villaggio remoto del nord Africa o un mercato degli scarti tecnologici occidentali a Lagos? E cosa...
