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globalFEST 2009: Live Webcast from Webster Hall
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On January 11th, 2009, WNYC and NPR Music presented a live webcast of globalFEST 2009, the annual showcase that provides a "sneak peek" at global musicians on the verge of international fame. This year's event featured 12 international musical artists on three separate stages.
globalFEST 2009 Lineup
Brooklyn Qawwali Party
Calypso Rose
Chicha Libre
Hot 8 Brass Band
Kailash Kher's Kailasa
L&O
La Troba Kung-Fu
Marcio Local
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
Tanya Tagaq
Watcha Clan
Brooklyn Qawwali Party
Paying tribute to one of the world's greatest vocalists, Brooklyn Qawwali Party was formed to honor the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The group reworks his thunderous songs for an eclectic 10-piece orchestra comprised of groundbreaking musicians. Funky and soulful, BQP captures the joyful spirit of this Pakistani Sufi music with a creative instrumental blend of jazz and qawwali. With five horns, guitar, bass, harmonium, and three percussionists, the band's bouyant rhythm will get you on your feet with your hands clapping. They are developing a collaboration with Nusrat's nephews Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali Group.
Mustt Mustt, Beh Haadh Rhamsa, Man Kunto Maula, Allah Hu.
Calypso Rose
In the man's world of calypso, McCartha Lewis, known as Calypso Rose, has reigned as queen for the last forty years. After Rose won the title in 1977, the long-standing honor of "Calypso King" had to be renamed "Calypso Monarch." Rose has shared the stage with world icons from Bob Marley to Miriam Makeba and won awards from cities and governments around the Western Hemisphere for her vocal and songwriting talents. Currently based in NYC, Calypso Rose was recently featured in the documentary and CD Calypso at Dirty Jim's on Damon Albarn's Honest Jon's label.
Summertime, A Man is a Man, Brown Sugar, Voodo Lay Loo, Back to Africa, Rum and Coca Cola, Calypso Blues, Israel on My Bus, Fire in Me Wire, Calypso Medley.
Chicha Libre
Led by French emigre Olivier Conan, owner of the influential nightclub Barbes, this New York sextet vamps on the distinctive psychedelic Amazonian sound called chicha, in which the Peruvian love of cumbias mixed with rock organ, surf guitar, and Andean melodies in the free-wheeling late 1960s. Chicha Libre goes beyond the vintage hits by "chicha-fying" everything from Vivaldi to original songs.
Sonido Amazonica, Primavera, Borrachito, Popcorn, Muchachitade L'Oriente, Yo No Fui, Tres Pasajeros, Juaneco en el cielo, Un Shipibo en Espana, Hungry Song, Mi Platode Barro.
Hot 8 Brass Band
Despite the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, the young New Orleans members of Hot 8 Brass Band have become icons of the city's unforgettable second line music, a street tradition linked to jazz funerals and the African-American societies that supported them in the 19th century. The musicians, who began playing together in high school, keep true to this spirit, while infusing their performance with youthful funk and fire.
I'll Fly Away, Move Your Body, It Ain't What You Think, Untitled, St James Infirmary, Keep That Dream Alive.
Kailash Kher's Kailasa
Beloved in Bollywood for his superb popular renditions of Sufi songs, Kailash Kher's voice and dynamic performances have earned him a judge's spot on Indian Idol, as well as adoration across the Indian diaspora. Kher began studying Indian classical vocal music from the age of 12 with his father, and later broke into the limelight, thanks in part to the Mumbai-based ensemble Kailasa.
Jaana Jopi De Naal (One with the Divine), Teri Deewani (Love Beyond Reason), Tauba Tauba (Oh My God! Oh My God!), Dilruba (Sweetheart), Saiyyan (My Beloved), Bam Lahiri (Third Eye Open), Jobann Chhalke (Blossoming Youth).
L&O
L&O is an intimate new direction for Olivier Slabiak, co-founder of France's favorite klezmorim, Les Yeux Noirs (previous globalFEST artists). He teams up with classically trained vocalist wife Laure for a light yet passionate project that explores French chansons and swing in arrangements featuring everything from glockenspiel to tuba.
Valse Intro, J'ai Bien Aime (I Loved), Le Sourire Heureux (The Happy Smile), Je vous Donne L (I Give You L), Je vous Donne O (I Give You O), C'est Un Garcon (It's a Boy), Qu'A Toi (Just for You), Les Lilas (The Lilies), Le Papillon (The Lullaby), Dance Me.
La Troba Kung-Fu
Catalan troubadours with serious attitude, La Troba Kung-Fu takes rumba catalana to a whole other global dimension in a way that would make Manu Chao smile, mixing in cumbia, vallenato, salsa, dub, and rock. A project of vocalist and accordionist Joan Garriga with former bandmates from Dusminguet, La Troba's music touches down everywhere from the Czech Republic to Uruguay, all while staying true to Garriga's Catalan roots.
Cumbia Inferno, Sense Nom, Calor, Volant, Mirame, Loco Motora, Rock Rumberu.
Marcio Local
A child of 1970s working-class Rio, Marcio Local returns to the music of Brazilian funk pioneers like Jorge Ben, musicians who boldly mixed soul and R&B with samba and bossa nova. Now a resident of the bohemian Santa Teresa community, Local's effortless vocals, fat horns, and deep grooves reflect the nostalgic yet imminently hip contemporary music scene of his beloved Rio. Local, whose debut EP on Luaka Bop was produced by Mario Caldato (Red Hot & Rio, Beastie Boys), makes his first performance outside of Brazil at globalFEST.
Moderno (Modern), Ela NaoTa Nem Ai (She's Not Really There), Samba Sem Nenhum Problema (Samba with No Problem), Preta Luxo (Black Luxury), Happy Endings, The New Generation, Represento (Represent), Minha Rosa (My Rose), Swingue Dominou, Soul do Samba, Local s/a, Quem Pode, Pode (Who Can, Can).
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
Led by an indie-rock guitarist who lived in Ghana (Nathaniel Braddock) and a singer from one of Ghana's hottest highlife bands (Kofi Cromwell of the Western Diamonds), Occidental Brothers Dance Band International brings together the musical best of what West and Central Africa (highlife and rumba) and Chicago (avant-garde jazz, house, underground rock) have to offer. New York debut.
Nyenko! (Let's Go!), Fowa Koa Mann (Give Me Your Heart), Ada Sanbra (Come Back Love), Nedo Ye Fe (Her Love is Beautiful), Akwaaba (You Are Welcome), Obia, Bizarre Love Triangle, Circle, Circle, Circle, Masanga, Mafiwo (I Miss You), Oda Bro Wa Wa.
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
Multi-instrumentalist and dancer Saeid Shanbehzadeh and his son perform traditional music and dance from Bushehr in Southern Iran on the Persian Gulf. Their music and dance is an extraordinary amalgam of the Persian, Arab, African, and Indian influences of the region, a cultural crossroads for centuries. The striking African-influenced hip-swinging dances and trance-inducing songs are accompanied by double reed bagpipe, double flute, and percussion.
Ney Jofti, Chardastmal, Taknvazizarb, Ney Mouro, Bandari, Yazleh, Yazleh (second version).
Tanya Tagaq
As an art student from her native Arctic home of Nunavut, Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq began perfecting her groundbreaking take on the complex traditional vocal games played between two female singers. Her otherworldly approach soon caught the ear of the Kronos Quartet, Bjork (who invited Tagaq to join her for her Vespertine tour and sang on Tagaq's first CD, Sinaa), Faith No More, and Mr. Bungle's Mike Patton (who signed her onto his influential Ipecac Records).
Hunger.
Watcha Clan
The French world-electronica group Watcha Clan evolved in the Mediterranean melting pot of Marseilles, where mixtures of Sephardic, Balkan, and North African sounds come naturally. Watcha, fronted by dread-shaking Jewish vocalist Sistah K, takes the sounds of its home port and adds hard-hitting global drum-and-bass and dub beats.
Gypsy Sugar, Call of Hagar, Tchiribim, Balkan Qoulou, Limu, Goumari (traditional), Goumari (house), Larshuma, Eli.
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