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Ghanaian musician King Ayisoba is be coming back to Brussels, this time with his original backing band from Ghana! For those who’ve never seen King play; expect African Bo Diddley blues of the 21st century using the Kologo – a two string lute instrument – and a sampler as key ingredients. Jumpy beats, catchy bass lines, rough primal vocals partly in english and in traditional languages http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6boxo_xDU8 http://makkumrecords.nl/mr8.html
also Zea (NL) will play his electropop/punk with African influences http://www.zea.dds.nl/
+ before & after we’ll play a fine Rebel Up! African selection of unheard vintage and bouncy contemporary sounds in folk, funk and bass.
Should be a special night so be motivated for a rough Afro session monday night!
6€ presale, so better get your tix before, otherwise8€ at the door.
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doors 20:30 FB event Ateliers Claus site
Time for another Rebel Up! session at Recyclart!
We are co-hosting this special African/Ethiopian night with the good Recyclart folks as part of a concert night with Ukandanz and Zea for whom we are playing support with eastern African and other modern African tunes.
Zea (Arnold de Boer, The Ex) will kick off the night with some of his eclectic African inspired punkrock songs with electronic effects and samples between Delta blues, Ghanese riffs, Ethiopian electrofolk and gabba beats.
uKanDanZ is a French-Ethiopian outfit that plays some serious electrified folky punkjazz with Asnake Guebreyes on vocals (from the late Mohammed Jimmy Mohammed band). Pure energy spiritualised with emotional drives to make the crowd go wild and shiver in Ethiopian dance stylee. Listen to their new album on Deezer and check out the video >
As always with Rebel Up! hosted nights, a part of the proceedings will go to a NGO project, in this case the Ethiopia-project of The Ex/Zea in the capital Addis Abeba where they support a music school for blind and handicapped children and other programmes. You can also make a donation at the bar if you like.
Keep in mind; it’s a concert night and not a late dance night, so do come early enough. doors 21:00, just 5€ in, full info on Recyclart site.
this concert has been rescheduled to wednesday 20 june after the show of 9 june was cancelled due to visa problems.
special night in Brussels at Ateliers Claus this Saturday with fresh sounds from Ghana!
KING AYISOBA is a number one star in Ghana, with a few big hits and one number one hit over the last five years. His song “I Want to see you my Father” is in the hearts and minds of every Ghanaian. King Ayisoba is part of the new Hip-Life scene and changed the scene with his new approach by using traditional instruments and songs together with the beats, bleeps and bass that make Hip Life so an exciting modern style. King Ayisoba plays the kologo, a two string instrument that originates from the north of Ghana. The sound is melodic and percussive at the same time. It works really well with the jumpy beats and catchy bass lines that come from his sampler. King Ayisoba sings partly in English and partly in his traditional own language, his lyrics are sometimes funny, often actual, very personal and always imaginative. Sometimes the music reminds of Bo Didley with its percussive catchy beat but this is blues of the 21st century and King Ayisoba is driving the cattle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_EBMsxyCQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u73EmECuV4c&feature=related http://www.myspace.com/kingayisoba
DJ GRRRT – outernational eclectic selecter dance to a wall of records that come from all over the world and contain those songs you did not hear before and make you ask yourself why, while dancing on its catchy beats and humming the melody. Traveling has never been so easy. here is his blog: http://jongensvandevlakte.blogspot.com/ and label: http://www.redwig.org/
Warming-up & inbetween sounds by REBEL UP! SEBCAT – unheard and eclectic african sounds, from vintage swing to folky riddims, autotune pop and more. Warmblooded music for waiting at the bar and perhaps a slow swing.
doors open: 20:00
Les Ateliers Claus Brabantstraat 23A (PassageRogier) doors: 20h
8€ in
Time for another sweet Saturday of Rebel Up! sounds.
A few weeks ago we played at the OT301 at an amazing Ethiopian Azmari night -the Ililta Band with Chalachew Ashenafi-, thanks to Andy, Terrie & Colin for having us. It was nice to see some of our regular RU visitors too!
This saturday we’ll be having 2/5 BZ straight from Istanbul! Perhaps not a famous household name, but all the better. Someone who has been a John Peel favorite surely can’t disappoint.
Serhat Koksal aka 2/5 BZ has done 2 of those famous Peel sessions, which have both been translated into a crafty cutted ep’s. Well worth checking out, listen to the sounds on his myspace page.
2/5 BZ mixes rough beats and sample cut-ups with political narratives which go from east to west and vice versa. True spheres from the oil-orient that is! Add some bizarre visuals of 70’s & 80’s ‘Nabucco’ cult movies to the mix, along with *no exotic* political images and you’ll experience what 2/5 BZ is all about.
Lately he has been occupied with special unrooted global movements, such as the Venezualan and Iranian cultural psyche and his latest audiovisial work ‘No Cultural pipeline Dialogue“. What to expect then? Who really knows, but what is sure is that an accidental occidental grip will take your attention and make you sway to blurred eurasian pixels loaded with heavy static. Better come and find out!
Ps., should you be living in the Rotterdam area, 2/5 BZ is also playing a live set @ Worm on Friday, so plenty of chances to catch the gullible guy!- wormweb
Our 2nd live guest of the night will be none other than Amsterdam local (and Rebel Up supporter & OCCII volunteer) Zea! Instead of a 2-piece duo, Zea is continued as Arnold’s solo project for now (plus he has become the newest member of The Ex since a month!). As he puts it himself, he’ll be bringing some ‘buzzing pop and outernational rock music, yay! See way below some awesome video’s of Arnold in Ethiopia last year. ‘Song for Electricity’, such a great song and clip isn’t it? It makes us jump and jive 🙂
Song for Electricity
Also we’ll be joined by the mysterious DJ de Boer, who will play ‘agrarian dance music’ from allover the world and possibly some ethnical Friesland sounds, Holland’s own foreign rebellious state 😉 Try to take a good guess as what his identity of semi-indie fame is. It ain’t that hard really.
Ofcourse the same old Rebel Up DJ’s will be dusting their records and swiping cd-r’s for your pleasure as well as our VJ team. New visuals will once again collide into millions of pixels, raw footage and whatnot loops. Sure, we’ll serve the syrup mighty sweet and sour!
Charity Matters, we stick with Islamic Relief for the 3rd and last time tonight. Families in Gaza and Palestina keep on needing your support. The majority of Gaza citizens are still without water, electricity or gas. Food is running out, and around 80,000 people are estimated to have been left homeless.
Islamic Relief is an international relief and development organization which has been working in the Palestinian territories since 1994. In spite of ongoing blockades and enduring limited humanitarian access, Islamic Relief Palestine has managed to supply and will continue to supply food parcels, medical supplies and blankets to the people of Gaza, co-operating with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, and other aid agencies in order to alleviate the pains of the people of Gaza. Your donation may seem but a tiny step, but lots of tiny steps combined will surely enable something of a positive leap to occur in the lives of our fellow humans in the Gaza strip!
Hopefully the Dutch website of Islamic Relief has been made free of criminal or anti-islamic phishing. If in doubt, redirect your digital money to islamic relief/ or just come along to our night and drop them in our tin box!
Oh, one of our dj’s has a little backlog of Nepali topi hats, caps and other locally crafted goods from the secluded mountainous Tansen valley from last year. Again up for sale for those interested in uniquely streetwise Nepali youth & grandpa fashion 🙂
Rebel Up! Soundclash (#22)
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a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,