Thursday 19th November 2009
Red Bull Music Academy and Karen P Present..
Broad Casting.
Part of the London Jazz Festival.
"Build an Ark" feat. Carlos Nino, Dwight Trible & Phil Ranelin
(Kindred Spirits, Los Angeles),
"Zen Badizm Workshop" feat. IG Culture, Kaidi Tatham, Fatima Eric Appapoulay (Holy Roller Productions, West London)
DJS: IG Culture + Karen P (Folded Wing) + Antal (Rush Hour / Kindred Spirits)
On Thursday 19th of November Red Bull Music Academy will be joining forces, once again, with Karen P’s Broad Casting to bring you a special London Jazz Festival line-up.
Keeping the left-field alive within this year’s London Jazz Festival, November’s Broad Casting centres on 2 of Karen P’s favourite contemporary musical innovators, LA’s Carlos Nino (who as well as being one half of electronic legends Ammon Contact directs the incredible Sun-Ra inspired Build an Ark along with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Holy Roller Productions’ IG Culture, who has been pushing the boundaries of British soul, hip-hop, jazz and dance music for more than 2 decades.
Carlos Nino commented: “I first played Cargo with Daedelus in 2004, then later with Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio in 2005, but haven’t had Build an Ark take that stage yet! As I’m most interested in nights that are conceptually focused, BROAD CASTING is perfect! We get to play music from our new record, while the legendary IG Culture, (who by the way, has been a very encouraging and supportive comrade along the way,) will be sampling us, for original tracks he’ll make on the spot, to be premiered in his DJ set later that night! It’s gonna be wonderful!”
IG’s Zen Badizm Workshop project will open up proceedings, performing music including some tracks from his incredible Japan only LP (also called Zen Badizm), released earlier this year on Freedom School records. Channeling the conscious energy of jazz labels like Strata East and Tribe, the heart-melting soul of Eddie Kendricks, and the spirituality of Ra through the cutting edge musicianship of IG and collaborators including Bilal, Corey Wilkes, Pino Palladino and Heidi Vogel. The line-up for tonight’s incarnation of Zen Badizm is not yet confirmed but will include Kaidi Tatham, Akwesi Mensah, Eric Appapoulay, and Red Bull Music Academy past-participant Fatima.
Whilst Zen Badizm might channel the inspiration of Tribe Records and their spiritual-jazz contemporaries, Build an Ark actually bring Tribe’s founder, trombonist Phil Ranelin centre-stage along with vocalist and composer Dwight Trible – who has performed with Harry Belafonte, Bobby Hutcherson and notably, Pharoah Sanders. Coming to us courtesy of the amazing Kindred Spirits label in Holland, Build an Ark will fill Cargo with their uplifting and message-driven freedom jazz sound, performing tracks from their new album LOVE Part 1, as well as favourites from their previous albums. Build an Ark are duty-bound to awaken a higher consciousness within their audience as anyone who has caught them live before will testify. And you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll do the very same at Broad Casting. IG Culture will then return to the stage with a very special and unique DJ set. Having spent the afternoon sampling, looping and re-working Build an Ark’s rehearsal and sound-check, IG will create unique and exclusive tracks to perform for the Broad Casting audience. Alongside these fresher than fresh Build an Ark dubs, will be dropping the bombs and specials as he has always been known to do. This will no doubt be a truly unique experiment to round off the evening in unique Broad Casting style and will be accompanied by jazz dancers such as Gary Nurse from legends of the underground.
IG Culture: "This is the kind of challenge that really gets me going. I'm feeling what Build an Ark do already - the way the project revives that classic underground spiritual jazz sound and attitude, and brings it bang up to date for the modern age. You can hear that Carlos is driven by nothing but his passion for the music..."
As usual, all the performances at Broad Casting will be recorded exclusively for Red Bull Music Academy Radio
Cargo.
83 Rivington St.,
Kingsland Viaduct,
Shoreditch,
EC2A 3A
TIMES: 7pm-1am
COST: £10 ADV