This Sunday I’m presenting the Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner at the Bang On A Can Marathon in lower Manhattan. The event is free. The lineup is stellar. We go on in late afternoon right after the incredible Meredith Monk! (Eastman sang on Monk’s Dolmen Music) Other performers include Jherek Bischoff, Roomful of Teeth, So Percussion. Info.
Like I said yesterday, Maga Bo should be familiar to Dutty Artz listeners… but if he’s not check out this fire mix he put together to promote his tour and the new Kafundó Vol. 1 Compilation: (more…)
This is a guest post by Maga Bo, co-founder of Kafundó Records, and DJ/Producer extraordinaire that should be no stranger to Dutty Artz listeners. In this post he runs us down on BaianaSystem. His remix of their song “Oxe Como Era Doce” appears on the Kafundó Vol. 1 Compilation: (more…)
It’s been a couple weeks since my bandmates and I got back from our first tour through Mexico and El Salvador. I’m finally catching my breath to reflect on all the amazing music we heard and terrific crews we connected with. We stormed through an almost non-stop week of shows, press showcases, and TV appearances, but still managed to fit in some pyramids, beaches, and volcano climbs along the way. Pretty surreal.
As the world tunes into FIFA’s World Cup this week, Dutty Artz and Kafundó Records team up to bring you a Brazil that you might not see displayed on your TV screens.
Kafundó Volume 1, a compilation of digital roots music from Brazil, is out today on iTunes, Bandcamp, Juno, or any of your favorite digital download stores!
In order to give a little background on each of the artists that appear on the upcoming Kafundó Vol. 1 release, the guys from Kafundó Records and I are going to run down a little about each track on the compilation. I’ll kick it off with a song that has become a staple in my DJ sets these days: (more…)
Usually people put out a mix before their tour to promote upcoming shows… Well, I’m putting one out after — many excuses as to why — most importantly because I wanted to share a part of my set that got some interesting reactions from crowds this past month touring the U.S. (more…)
Swedish production duo Cocotaxi hit us with a remix of Blingo, a Panamanian cover of La Negra Tomasa by Papi Brandao y Sus Ekecutivos (from Soundway’s Panama Vol. 3). (more…)
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel†– Maya Angelou
And Maya Angelou made me feel some kind of way. From the moment I found I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings on a library bookshelf at age 12 to when I learnt of her many occupations throughout her life in her series of autobiographies – a young working mother, a waitress, a streetcar conductor in San Francisco, a magazine editor in Cairo, an administrative assistant at the University of Ghana, a dancer, a calypso singer, a screenwriter, an actress, a civil rights activist. What a phenomenal woman.Â
To be released on June 10th and available now for pre-order, Dutty Artz is proud to present Kafundó Vol. 1 a collection of some of the hottest tracks from the contemporary Brazilian DJ scene, curated by Maga Bo and Wolfram Lange. (more…)
We love Ceci! I first caught her live band playing a powerful set at the Day of the Dead festival in L.A.’s Hollywood Forever cemetery (!!) last year. It felt wrong to have that much fun on a burial ground. But I accept the Angeleno logic with its mix of sun, noir, and Mexicanidad; I did not step on any graves; and most importantly, Ceci rocked the crowd of thousands, flanked by her female-majority band. (more…)
Geko Jones and I are making our NY stop on the Africa Latina tour this Thursday at Superfine in Dumbo. This is the unofficial after party for Celebrate Brooklyn at Brooklyn Bridge Park, featuring the Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, OkayAfrica, DJ Underdog, and myself earlier that evening. (more…)
A couple of weeks ago @love4mybros shared an intriguing link with me on Twitter, so I followed her links and was pleasantly surprised to find what I could only describe as a collection of post-poems (a form reminiscent of one of my favorite bloggers, Word The Cat.) I enjoyed her personal, but playfully irreverent style, and I asked the person behind the words to add some of hers to these pages. So dear Dutty Artz readers, please meet and welcome Abhayam, with the first of what will hopefully be a series of contributions here on Dutty Artz. – Boima
Non yellow
non lime
non “dollar cab”
taxi?
Oui? (more…)
