Eritrean folklore & musical troupe
Here are four front covers from the tapes serie Eritrean folklore & musical troupe, I do not publish the music, maybe I’ll do it later. For the moment I’d like to share just the visual side of it. Actually the first one is from the Pioneers serie, I’m not able to find further info, but...
Pelle nera, Maschere bianche 2
Next Wire issue contains a very good reportage by Nick Richardson on Congotronics, as a new compilation – the fourth – is due to be released on Crammed Disc. Photographies of the article are by Pieter Hugo, the same of that serie on Lagos’ hyenas featured on the cover of Lagos Shake – A Tony...
Pelle nera, Maschere bianche
Sono ammaliato da queste immagini che arrivano quasi in concomitanza, come dei lampi improvvisi che scaricano su paesaggi urbani differenti. Strade di Kinshasa vs. strade di New York, nessun clashing, solo immaginari messi in parallelo. Che sia forse questo un modo nuovo di rappresentare le culture urbane? Segnalo anche l’elenco completo dei trailer di Kinshasa Succersale,...
Crossing the bridge
Turkish rapper Ceza in Fatih Akin’s Crossing the bridge – The sound of Istanbul.
Again on sound clashing
Two sound clash contributions – theory and memory – from Norman C. Stolzoff’s Wake the Town and Tell the People: “The clash first emerged and continues to function as a way for particular sound systems to differentiate themselves and thus clear a space in a crowded field of competitors. In this sense, the clash operates...
Culture Clash
La scorsa settimana Londra ha ospitato l’evento più sconvolgente degli ultimi anni di bass culture britannica. Culture Clash – organizzato da Red Bull Music Academy al Roundhouse di Camden – è una celebrazione della tradizione dei sound system a Londra, radicata nel tessuto urbano dopo l’ondata migratoria caraibica degli anni ’50 e in particolare coincidente...
War on stereotypes
– Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), ph: by Véronique De Viguerie– Killarmy Dirty Weaponry, Wu-Tang Priority, 1998
Schizophonia
Browsing the extremely prolific blog Global Groove, I was struck by a post which juxtapose a record cover from Congo and a backyard made out of curious folk objects and garden sculptures covered by snow. Moos, the blog owner, tells that “it’s cold in the Netherlands [where he lives], with some 8 degrees Celsius below...
