This is a real treat, in fact one that can't be missed...The UK debut of Benin's legendary voodoo/funk sensation mixing funk and Afrobeat with Voudoun rhythms.
Arguably West Africa’s best kept secret, Benin's finest band spent the 1970s mixing funk and Afrobeat with the bewitching rhythms of their native Voudoun tradition. Their output, both in quantity and quality, was astonishing - and live they're still producing revelatory psychedelic grooves.
'It's like feeling that a doll in your image is being pierced through and that the needles are in the hands of James Brown.' Les Inrockuptibles.
Plus the support act from Gnawa Home Songs - Tamesloht Blues will also be performing.
Hailing from the holy village of Tamesloht in Morocco in the arid lands south of Marrakech, this group of master gnawa musicians bring their intimate and transgressive music, bearing the healing melodies of their ritual drums and krakebs. "Gnawa home songs" is an exceptional gathering of truly gifted soloists (vocals and guembri lute), brought together by masters Emmanuelle Honorin and Karim Ziad.
27 September 2009 / 19:30
Barbican Hall.
Get your tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk
See you there.
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