“there are so many choice cuts to rave about but you can’t go far wrong with Deux bâtons and La Marseillaise en créole…Even without the lyrical knowledge this is the sort of music that inspires revolution against everything that has come to represent the materialistic and mainstream” - Folk Radio UK on Lo’Jo’s Cinema el Mundo
Lo’Jo tours the UK next week!
Lo’Jo’s UK tour starts on Tuesday in Manchester and Wednesday in London as well! (hmm, tough choice.)
Terakaft tours the UK starting next Tuesday!
May 28 - Ruby Lounge in Manchester
May 29 - Electrowerkz in London
May 31 - Hay-on-Wye Festival
June 28 - Glastonbury Festival
(via Rising Tuareg Band Terakaft to Perform in London on May 29 | World Music Central.org)
“Terakaft, one of the rising stars in Tuareg music will bring their desert blues sound to Electrowerkz in London on May 29,2013.
Comprised of two original members of Tinariwen, the band was formed in 2001 in Kidal (Mali). This Tuareg desert rock band uses droning guitars, pulsating rhythms, and powerful, mournful vocals. Terakaft means ‘Caravan’ in their mother tongue and they tell tales of a nomadic people, of families displaced, of violence, loss, sadness and defiance…”
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Tinariwen’s April US tour begins on the 12th at Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival! Here’s their tour schedule, which includes San Francisco, L.A., Phoenix and more:
Check out their acclaimed album Imidiwan: Companions on iTunes!
(via SXSW: Terakaft | Noise)
“…Joined by American bassist Manny Flores, the two Malians both played electric guitar, generating push-and-pull rhythms with short bursts of melody burbling on top. Most of the songs, drawn from their latest album Terakaft kel Tamasheq (World Village), were minor-chord vamps that created a trance-like intertwining of the guitar parts…the two leaders sang their droning, mesmerizing vocals in the Tamasheq language, praising God, family and the desert in a sound as strange and seductive as the Sahara itself. There was nothing else remotely like it in all of South by Southwest…”
With fleet-fingered prowess that would make Swedish Metal virtuosos run in terror, the two men that make up the touring arm of Terakaft are very modestly some of the best guitarists I have ever seen.
“The second set really showcased the nuanced writing of Terakaft, whose songs defy easy western genre tags. There was certainly some flavors of High Life and Afro-Funk that have made waves on our shores, as well as traditional sounds from Terakaft’s home in Mali. But the smooth lyrical solos of Sanou recall Country-Blues barnburners like Chet Atkins or Carl Perkins, and Diara’s rhythm playing would periodically build to such a fury that it resembled proto-surf-punks like Link Wray.”
Check out photos of Terakaft by Kim Reed from Drom last Saturday. Minneapolis fans, catch them tonight at The Cedar!
Terakaft is playing the Standard Hotel in NYC on March 17, after SXSW! Tickets are by invite only - email for invite: https://www.facebook.com/terakaft/info?ref=ts. If you missed the Drom show last Saturday, here’s an extra chance to catch them!
