Bocafloja – “Testigo” Ft Hache St
December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Big up to the mighty Bocafloja! Always making great music, he gives us another banger here..
Big up!
MOA Live at Georgetown!
December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
African Underground Live at Georgetown
December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Mufumbiro By Sylvester feat. Sandy Soul. (Ugandan Hiphop)
December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A new video from Sylvester (of the duo Sylvester and Abramz) from Uganda.
Hong Kong Slam Jam with MC Yan
December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Reposed from:
http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/play/video-hong-kong-slam-jam-mc-yan-647681
It’s not an exaggeration to say that MC Yan is the godfather of Chinese hip hop. When he returned to Hong Kong in the early 1990s, after living for seven years in Paris, he became one of the first people to rap in Cantonese, taking advantage of the language’s natural richness and capacity for wordplay.
In 1993, he joined LMF, a group of musicians and MCs whose hard-edged lyrics excoriated Hong Kong’s government and raised questions about the city’s post-colonial identity. In 1998, LMF released its first album, which went on to sell more than 100,000 copies, a rare feat in a music industry dominated by major-label Cantopop idols.
After LMF disbanded in 2003, MC Yan followed his own path, working on conceptual art projects and music in his studio near Sha Tau Kok. He’s still deeply involved in Hong Kong’s fledgling hip hop scene, collaborating with underground MCs like Ghost Style. Mainstream hip hop groups like FAMA give MC Yan and LMF credit for inspiring them.
MC Yan is also behind Hong Kong’s first internet radio, Radio Dada, clothing line Ning Si Bu Qu, and the world’s furthest grafitti tag.
Find out more about LMF and their reunion tour at What’s that sound? LMF.
Read more: Video: Hong Kong Slam Jam with MC Yan | CNNGo.com http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/play/video-hong-kong-slam-jam-mc-yan-647681#ixzz0ZnytDVNM
Kae Sun – Lion On A Leash
December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The most captivating quality of up and coming artist Kae Sun is not the ease with which he switches from singing to rapping or the fact that his records are influenced by a variety of musical styles. But rather, it is his distinctively heart felt vocal delivery coupled with his ability to communicate passionately through poetic lyrics.
Born Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jr in Accra, Ghana Kae’s childhood was steeped in culture and community. His earliest musical inspiration came from diverse sources: the church choir, his dad’s soul records, the roots reggae blaring on the streets of Accra, traditional Ghanaian folk chants and the hip-life music on the radio. These elements fused to form the foundation of Kae Sun’s unique and powerful musical style that continues to change and grow.
October 2009 brought the release of Kae Sun’s Debut album “Lion On A Leash”. The release of this record has resulted in some great things for Kae, including a tour of Dubai and the UK in November. December seems to be off to a great start for Kae Sun. December 7th, iTunes announced their “Rewind 2009” a summary of the years best, Kae Sun’s album “Lion On A Leash” was included in the short list of the best Hip-Hop albums of the year which included albums from K’naan, Mos Def, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Kanye West, and others.
If that wasn’t enough to make a great month a song featuring Kae Sun (Miles Jones Ft. Kae Sun – Coast To Coast) was picked up by CSI for Season 10 Episode 7, and CTV’s Music Of The Nation for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. The song was also short listed for the Independent Music Awards Hip-Hop Song of 2009.
Look out for Kae Sun on tour across Canada winter/spring 2010, with international dates to follow.
Kae Sun – Lion On A Leash
For More on Kae Sun visit:
http://www.myspace.com/kaesun
http://www.kaesunmusic.com
Distant Relatives Panel LIVE at Nomadic Wax!
December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Good Dance – dakar/brooklyn
December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Good Dance – dakar/brooklyn
Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival
Dec 16, 18 & 19 at 7:30pm
Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group and Compagnie 1er Temps
Choreographed by Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba
Devoted to reinterpreting the movement languages of Africa and the Diaspora through a postmodern lens, Reggie Wilson creates fluid, grounded, and deeply expressive dances. Wilson and his Brooklyn-based company Fist & Heel Performance Group make their BAM debut with The Good Dance – dakar/brooklyn, a work representing the fruits of a collaboration with choreographer Andréya Ouamba and his Compagnie 1er Temps from Dakar, Senegal.
Combining Wilson’s formalist approach with Ouamba’s more improvisational style, the artists create a unique movement vocabulary as they draw from their families’ roots in the Mississippi Delta and the Congo to ask profound questions about migration and identity. Featuring an amalgam of African and African American music, movement, text, and vocals, The Good Dance explores the genealogy of culture to consider the influence—real and metaphorical—of Central African culture on world performance forms.
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
70min, no intermission
Tickets: $20, 30
Costume design by Naoko Nagata
Lighting design by Jonathan Belcher
Pioneer Hip-Hop Activist Waterflow to be featured in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE’s “Distant Relatives”
December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
“Distant Relatives” Event Dec. 12 – A Conversation on the Deep-Rooted Connections and Evolution of Reggae and Hip-Hop; Moderated by MTV VJ Sway, Made Possible by VTech;
National Geographic Live will wrap up its fall event series with a groundbreaking evening featuring some of hip-hop’s most legendary figures. “Distant Relatives,” sponsored by VTech, will introduce hip-hop icon Nas and Grammy-winning artist Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley in a panel discussion about the complex history and under-examined relationship between reggae and hip-hop.
Moderated by MTV VJ Sway Calloway, “Distant Relatives” will feature a multitude of the indusry’s key contributors, including the infamous Kool Herc, Rakim, Daddy U-Roy, King Jammy, Jeff Chang, Pat McKay, Waterflow and DJ Red Alert.
International record label Nomadic Wax organized the African representation for the panel, bringing in Papa Moussa Lo a.k.a. Waterflow.
Waterflow is at the forefront of Wagëblë, a Senegalese hip-hop group formed in 1997, and an international “voice for the voiceless”. Wagëblë’s messages are universal, but their primary fous is to empower the youth of Africa, bringing politics to the head of the global hip-hop scene.
Waterflow has participated in numerous tours, shows, panels and workshops with Nomadic Wax, and maintains a presence in peace organizations like One People and at the schools and universities of Sénégal. As one of the world’s leading hip-hoppers using music as a platform for social change, Waterflow’s presence at “Distant Relatives” will add a historic, global perspective to an already established group of panelists.
The event will take place at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. Tickets are sold out, but the event will be streamed live and broadcast online for free at Natgeomusic.net.
An open-mic party will be hosted at the popular Washington nightclub, Zanzibar, following the event. Ticket holders will receive free admission with proof of purchase. For more information visit www.zanzibar-otw.com.
Hip-hop has evolved from its expressive African roots, traveled through the Caribbean and American colonies by way of the slave trade, sprouted up in Jamaica, and cemented itself in the streets of New York City as the multi-billion dollar indusry and all-encompassing culture we know today. Discussions will revolve around the social implications hip-hop and reggae culture have on the global community, and explore the origins of a music that traces back to African sounds and expressions.
About Nomadic Wax – Nomadic Wax is a fair-trade international record label and production company dedicated to producing and promoting global urban music and media.
About National Geographic Live:
National Geographic Live is the performing arts division of the National Geographic Society. It features live concerts, films and dynamic presentations by today’s leading explorers, scientists, filmmakers and photographers, covering a wide range of topics, including exploration and adventure; wildlife and habitat conservation; natural phenomena; world cultures and ancient history; and relevant issues such as climate change and sustainability. Proceeds from speaker series help fund future National Geographic initiatives in field research, exploration and education. For more information, visit www.nglive.org.
About Nat Geo Music:
Nat Geo Music, a division of National Geographic Entertainment, was established in 2007 to inspire people to care about the planet through the power of music. Content developed by Nat Geo Music is utilized across all National Geographic platforms, including online media, radio, print media, film and television. The Nat Geo Music label, launched in January 2009, records, releases and promotes modern music from around the globe from a variety of artists and genres. The Nat Geo Music Channel programs music from every corner of the planet and showcases global legends, local stars and up-and-coming artists. For more information, visit www.natgeomusic.net.
About ‘Distant Relatives’:
Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley and Nas, whose success as a duo was fermented in 2006 with the double-Grammy-Award-winning ‘Road to Zion,’ have created the album ‘Distant Relatives’ to explore and celebrate the correlations and connective history between reggae and hip-hop, paralleling both sounds to the motherland. ‘Distant Relatives’ is neither a remix nor a featured guest spot on a single track, but a fully collaborative effort opening new avenues of musical expression.
For interviews, media inquiries, or for information about other projects, etc. please contact Nomadic Wax via Ben Herson at (917) 225-8472 or ben@nomadicwax.com, and Magee McIlvaine at magee@nomadicwax.com.
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Words By : Amanda Macchia : mandee.macchia@gmail.com
Vox Sambou launches new video on World Aids Day
December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Haitian-born rapper Vox Sambou tackles the issue of the AIDS epidemic in his new video DiscriminaSida. The song is featured on his upcoming second LP, scheduled for release in 2010. Vox Sambou, a founding member of multilingual Hip Hop super group Nomadic Massive raps in Creole, Spanish, English and French. Accordingly, as well as to highlight the universal plight that is discrimination against people living with AIDS, the video is translated in three languages.
The theme of World AIDS Day 2009 hinges around leadership: Stop AIDS, keep the promise. World leaders are asked to be accountable for the discriminatory discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through.
According to Sambou-“the discrimination is many-fold. There is a lack of knowledge about prevention; lack of basic resources especially in the northern part of Haiti, where I’m from; lack of inclusion of the sick in the society”. The perverse effect of this discrimination is that around 220 000 Haïtian children are orphaned because their caretakers are sick, cannot get treated and are ashamed or ostracised from contributing to society.
The video was directed by Dominican filmmaker Ariel Mota and was shot on the island of Kyskeya, today Santo Domingo. The Video is Available at www.voxsambou.com
Source:
Robints Paul, alias Vox Sambou
514-992-5235
info@voxsambou.com
