Passcasts 2009
Culture Musical Club interview
Culture Musical Club began life as part of the youth organization of the Afro Shirazi Party during Zanzibar’s struggle for independence back in 1956. Today, CMC is Zanzibar’s most prolific and successful taarab orchestra. The club performs widely at concerts in Zanzibar’s Stone Town, but also frequently takes its music to the rural areas.
Their international tours and CD-releases have made the name Culture Musical Club known to audiences throughout the world so that rehearsals in their clubhouse have become somewhat of a tourist attraction. This, however, does not interfere with the first and foremost aim of their social gathering – to enjoy music and “to be moved” by it, as the original meaning of the word “taarab” implies.
Besides taarab, many club members are also active in kidumbak groups. Both types of music are now included in their shows, contrasting the serene sound of orchestral taarab to the festive and sexually charged dance that is kidumbak.
Category: Passcasts, Passcasts 2009
Leave a comment
Toumani Diabate interview
Kora maestro Toumani Diabate in conversation at PASS 2009. Diabate mediates traditions inherited from Mali’s ancient Mande Empire through globetrotting jazz, blues and electro frequencies. A lifelong Bamako resident, Diabate rose to global acclaim almost 20 years ago when he recorded the world’s first solo kora album Kaira. Since then his career has been characterised by a fierce refusal to erect a line between an ancient locality and a modern cosmopolis.
Bheki Khoza Interview
Real Rozzano
Digging in the Rozzano’s crates (6 Oct 2009) [display_podcast] 1) god made me funky – headhunters 2) ashley’s roachclip – soul searchers 3) scorpio 4) funky drummer – james brown 5) hicky brrr – bill cosby 6) blues 4 me – mel brown 7) black cow – 8 ) love tko – teddy pendergrass 9) easin in – ojayz 10) what i feel – pacific express 11) madelaine – toni schilder 12) sakhile – sakhile 13) manasse – caiphus semenya …
Culture Musical Club live
Culture Musical Club live @ Slave Church [display_podcast] WHERE/ WHEN: Slave Church (Sat Oct 3, from 7pm) Culture Musical Club began life as part of the youth organization of the Afro Shirazi Party during Zanzibar’s struggle for independence back in 1956. Today, CMC is Zanzibar’s most prolific and successful taarab orchestra. The club performs widely at concerts in Zanzibar’s Stone Town, but also frequently takes its music to the rural areas. Their international tours and CD-releases have made the name …
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble live
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble live @ Guga S’thebe [display_podcast] With: GABRIEL HUBERT/HUDAH (trumpet); SAIPH GRAVES/CID (trombone); TYCHO COHRAN/LT (sousaphone); AMAL HUBERT/BAJI (trumpet); JAFAR GRAVES/YOSH (trumpet); SEBA GRAVES/CLEF (trombone); TARIK GRAVES/SMOOV (trumpet); UTTAMA HUBERT/ROCCO (euphonium) WHERE/ WHEN: Guga S’thebe (Sat Oct 3, from 12pm) The nine members of HBE, eight brothers and a cousin, come from an extraordinary musical family. All sisters, brothers and mothers are professional musicians, and Philip Cohran, their father, has roots running back to Mississippi, his time in …
Toumani Diabate live
Toumani Diabate live @ St George’s Cathedral [display_podcast] WHERE/ WHEN: St George’s Cathedral (Fri Oct 2, from 7pm) Kora maestro Toumani Diabate mediates traditions inherited from Mali’s ancient Mande Empire through globetrotting jazz, blues and electro frequencies. A lifelong Bamako resident, Diabat? rose to global acclaim almost 20 years ago when he recorded the world’s first solo kora album Kaira. Since then his career has been characterised by a fierce refusal to erect a line between an ancient locality and …
Barry van Zyl & Baboti live
Barry van Zyl & Baboti live @ Centre For The Book [display_podcast] WHERE/ WHEN: Centre for the Book (Fri Oct 2, from 9pm); Centre for the Book (Sat Oct 3, from 9pm) While everybody’s busy moving about, Cape Town based scientist Barry Van Zyl is perched on a drumkit stool, counting bars and cymbal crashes. He started playing drums as a 10-year-old accompanist to his father, a pianist. Since then he’s graduated from the Musicians Institute of Technology, Hollywood, California. …
Wanlov the Kubulor live
Wanlov the Kubulor live @ Slave Church [display_podcast] With: AARON BEBE SUKURA (seperewa, xylophone); ERIC OWUSU (percussion); AGBEKO GIDI (gome); AYUUNGU ATAMBIRE (kolgo); JOHN KENNEDY NTUMY (trumpet); WANLOV THE KUBOLOR (voice, koshka, frikyiwa) WHERE/ WHEN: Slave Church (Thurs Oct 1, from 7pm); Slave Church (Sat Oct 3, from 7pm) On his return to Accra after a seven-year stay in the US, the former computer science student turned musician, Emmanuel Owusu-Bonsu, started a label which injected new creativity into a stagnant …