Live Sounds’ inaugural 2011-2012 season included music from Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Cape Verde, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Guinea, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mali, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, USA and Zimbabwe, with Antonio Zambujo | Azam Ali | Babba Maal | Ana Moura | Bombay Jazz with Larry Coryell, George Brook, Ronu Majumdar + Samir Chaterjee | Brooklyn Rider with Kojiro Umezaki | Carolina Chocolate Drops | Chamber Music: Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal | David Murray Plays Nat King Cole en Espanol | globalFEST2012 (Debo Band, MAKU Sound System, The Gloaming, Mayra Andrade, SMOD, Wang Li, BelO, Yemen Blues, Diogo Nogueira, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Silk Road Ensemble, Zaz) | globalFEST at SWSX (Janka Nabay + Bubu Kings, Chicha Libre, Red Baarat, Debo Band) | Laurie Anderson | Les Chauds Lapins | Locos Por Juana | Maria De Barros | Manuel Agujetas | NY Arabic Orchestra | NY Griot Summit | Niyaz | Simon Shaheen | Tango Connection/Maria Franganillo | Theo Bleckmann’s Future Quest + Fula Flute | Thomas Mapfumo
May 22, 2012
FLAMENCO GITANO The Legendary Manuel Agujetas – Live@365
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Outstanding Gypsy singer Agujetas performs in NY for the first time since 1976!
Joined by the superb young Gypsy guitarist Manuel Valencia.
Tuesdays in July at the World Financial Center
On the plaza outdoors facing the Hudson River (220 Vesey Street)
5:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m
July 10
Locos Por Juana – River 2 River Festival
This party band with an Afro-Colombian heart and soul creates the perfect urban-alternative musical experience. Locos Por Juana seamlessly blends elements of rock, funk, and hip-hop with a wealth of Latin-American rhythms like cumbia, champeta, and salsa and the Caribbean groove of reggae and ska. Locos Por Juana are Itagui Correa on vocals, Mark Kondrat on guitar, and Javier Delgado on drums, joined by trombonist Lasim Richards and percussionist Carlos Palmet
Website: http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/node/1196
July 17
The Lion of Zimbabwe
Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited
Thomas Mapfumo, the Zimbabwean artist, activist and icon has used his revolutionary, spiritually charged chimurenga (Shona for “struggle”) music to decry injustice and highlight the historical and cultural issues that underlie the news headlines of his native land. Mapfumo, who lives in the US in exile due to political unrest under the Mugabe regime, is a musical visionary and a fearless social critic and considered by many one of the greatest African bandleaders of the past century. He will be joined by his band on mbira (thumb piano), bass, guitar, percussion, keyboard.
Website: http://thomasmapfumo.blogspot.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thomasmapfumounlimited
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGXSNVOQ53Q
July 24
French Swing from the 20s, 30s + 40s
Les Chauds Lapins
“A lush, swinging, passionate performance of some very smart, funny, unabashedly romantic songs from 1930s and 1940s France.” – Lucid Culture
Les Chauds Lapins (“the hot rabbits”), lead by NY’s Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt, specialize in a repertoire of French swing from the 1920’s – 40’s, an epoch when American jazz and swing was being absorbed into the witty, passionate, highly melodic tradition of French popular music. Their whimsical, sophisticated and poetic repertoire includes numbers popularized by the likes of Mistinguett, Lucienne Boyer, Edith Piaf, and features suave, swing-tinged gems from the enchanted catalog of songs by the great, late Charles Trenet. Their arrangements of long-forgotten French classics contrast scored strings and horns with vintage fretted instruments, most notably banjo ukuleles, a hybrid instrument popular in the 20s and 30s.
Website: http://www.leschaudslapins.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/chaudslapins
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Les-Chauds-Lapins/180931681943573
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D00Z0u6Kl7o
July 31
Songs of Cape Verde
Maria de Barros
“irresistible.” – NY Times
Maria de Barros was born in Dakar, Senegal, lived in Mauritania, and grew up in Rhode Island but her heart belongs to Cape Verde. This tiny island archipelago off the Western coast of Africa, is the birthplace of her parents and is home to some of the most beautifully melancholic music on earth, and to one of the 21st Century’s greatest singers Cesaria Evora who passed away in 2011, and was Maria’s godmother. Maria’s music combines West African, Latin and European styles alongside pop and soul, but stays rooted in the musical traditions of Cape Verde including haunting mornas (think Blues), lively coladeiras (think salsa) and joyful funanas from Cape Verde.
Website: http://www.mariadebarros.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mariadebarros
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maria-de-Barros/78957182562
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eak0535FUFA
July 22, 8pm
Niyaz
CD release party
Niyaz, the Eastern electronic trance supergroup group, create music centered on the ethereal, unmistakable voice of Azam Ali with the acoustic/electronic instrumentation of Loga Ramin Torkian, and the cutting-edge electronic artistry of two-time Grammy nominee producer-remixer Carmen Rizzo. Niyaz create mystical music with a modern edge effortlessly bringing together Sufi poetry and folksongs from the Middle East with intense acoustic instrumentation and modern electronics. Musical groundbreakers since the release of their debut album in 2005, Niyaz now celebrate their third cd Sumud (steadfastness in Arabic – on the Six Degrees label), which delves deeper still into the philosophical quest of the human soul and brings a message of hope against injustice and oppression of ethnic and religious minority groups. Sumud is a universal tribute to cultural and spiritual diversity, freedom and dignity for all.
Drom: http://www.dromnyc.com/events/1672/niyaz
85 Avenue A btwn 5th and 6th Sts
Website: http://www.niyazmusic.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/niyaz1
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Niyaz-Official-Site/29368606358
