Posts made in March, 2010
Zina Daoudia, queen of the tecno-chaabi
introducing miss Daoudia (or sometimes spelled as Dawdia)
Infectious puzzled djarbouka beats, strokes on string and a constant raspy female voice- that’s Zina Daoudia’s steady-as-she-goes trademark tecno-Chaabi that has won over Moroccan and even Algerian youths with fastpaced beats. Chaabi is the new Maghrebi sound of berber folk-meets-pop that all the young folks listen & dance to at the moment. More folks in the West should really do so too.
The Studio 2M programmes are really something, a counter attack to the ilk of Maroc Idol by going deeper into the heavier folkloric stuff that shakes and rattles. Here’s the place where Dawdia earned her rap with the audience. On these stages, old traditions get turned into new digital ones for today’s Moroccan youths. No muffled western currents here, unless you want to talk about the influence of autotune. Moroccan folklore makes a strong step into the new digital age. The clips below show urban Morocco in full swing and headbangshaking motion. Girls and boys next to each other, dancing. Women in short laces, tight shirts, skintally clad even. You might even say, western, if the urban Moroccan context would have been lost on you. People who don’t know much about Morocco might have this frame in mind of a secular society, where teenage youths are herded apart under a rule of hormonal scrutiny by veilded elders with sticks. Nowadays in the big cities, music speaks in a free tongue. Here’s some hazy audiovisual reality;
and here’s a downloadable piece from on one of the many mp3 cdr’s that I brought back from Morocco last summer. Over 10 minutes long, it slowly builds up with interpunctions, stepovers and chitchat as a gelling glue for her rapturous rhythm.
till next bloggie!
Brass Wires & Bass
Brass Wires & Bass
Brass Wires & Bass is a title (release: March 31st 2010) that deserves our attention.
DJ Delay’s ( a.k.a. Beam Up a.k.a. Sonical, all aliases of Brian May… and no, NOT that one) forthcoming compilation presents an elegant cross section of the best of the Balkan scene, tweaked, dubbed and worked over to the limit. This is music that needs to be taken seriously.
Here is Balkan brass not in a new coat, but as old bones with new meat on them.
The meat is futuristic, minimal at places, deep, dark and dubbed down at others, succulent throughout. It relocates the Black Ark Studio to Belgrade, Budapest or Berlin with considerable ease and grace.
We can only hope that Delay will not do as Perry and incinerate his studio just yet, but will let us profit from its fruits for at least a while longer.
(I for one would love to hear his reworking of Čerkezi Orchestra, Acquaragia Drom, or, why not, Duško Gojković’s jazz masterpiece “Balkan Blue”).
Judge for yourself:
Brass Wires & Bass by Beam Up & DJ Delay
RebelUp crew is doing their best to have the maestro pay us a visit some time soon. We’ll keep you posted.
Mixes Rebel Up! @ OCCII, march 13, online
We had a fantastic spring openingin the OCCII march 13 with Vega Selecta, Process Rebel, Chico Correa and Volante Filipeia session (with Chico Correa and Naza). You can listen to it for your self here, enjoy!
Rebel Up! Soundclash :: Friday 26th March @ Vechtclub, Utrecht
Rebel Up!
Rougher sounds from the global underground
Rebel Up! Utrecht, jouw verzameling aan wereldse dj’s, zal vanaf maart maandelijks een feest bouwen in de Vechtclub. Denk kuduro, hiplife, gnawa, cumbia, baile funk, balkan, reggae, ghetto tech and all the likes, het liefste dwars door elkaar. Van alles voor iedereen. 26 maart is er dus maar één plek om te zijn: de Vechtclub. Gratis entree.
Onze speciale gast van vanavond is DJ Naza (Paraíba / Brazil). Hij speelt geregeld samen met Chico Correa die vorige week ook onze gast was. Bereid je voor op blije warme tropische geluiden die je vanuit de speaker op de dansvloer doen schudden!
Hier kan je al in de sfeer komen:
DJ Naza mix
Ieder Rebel Up! Soudclash feest is gekoppeld aan een goed doel. Voor deze editie hebben we het Project Cinema Jenin (Palestina) uitgekozen. Project Cinema Jenin wilt de oudste bioscoop van Jenin weer opbouwen. Deze bioscoop kende groot succes en toonde vele mensen de meest recente films uit buitenland en de regio. Sinds het conflict, de intifada, is er echter weinig meer over van het complex.
Met de wederopbouw wordt een impuls te geven aan geweldloosheid en culturele uitwisseling. De Duitse filmmaker Marcus Vetter heeft het project onder de aandacht gebracht met zijn film ‘Heart of Jenin’. In deze film vertelt Vetter het verhaal van een oud Palestijnse verzetstrijder Ismael die zijn 12 jarige zoon verliest als die per ongeluk wordt neergeschoten door een Israelische soldaat. In plaats van wraak, besluit de man het verlies van zijn zoon aan te grijpen om het geweld te doorbreken. Hij doneert de organen van zijn kind. Door zijn besluit leeft nu bijvoorbeeld een Joods meisje verder met het hart van zijn zoon.Ismael gaat verder met bruggen bouwen: hij opent een cultureel centrum voor kinderen om ze een alternatief te geven. Project Cinema Jenin is daar uit voortgekomen.
Title: Rebel Up! Crew 26 maart @ Vechtclub
Location: Vechtclub
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 22u30
Date: 26 maart 2010
Entrance: free
Rebel Up! Soundclash featured in the New York Times!
We’ve been making some waves, or riding on the ones others have created, depending on your perspective. Well either way you look at: it Rebel Up! has been expanding: monthly evening in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Shows planned in Brussels. Rebel Up is going international. And now even more as we have made a cameo apperance in a New York Times article.At the end of page one of the travel section Rebel Up! Soundclash is mentioned in relation to the Vechtclub:
“The club frequently features “soundclash” events that merge contrasting genres of music into one show: One recent event paired an Afro-funk band — which featured a group of acrobats — and a roster of Brazilian D.J.’s.”
Well that does sound like us! Here is the whole article if you care to read about the off beat tracks of Utrecht:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/travel/21next.html?pagewanted=1
If you missed the show, you can see a part here:
Rebel Up! Soundclash :: Pata Potea :: Live @ Vechtclub, Utrecht from Maarten van der Glas on Vimeo.
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