Saturday, March 17 at 20:30
the festival Space Brotherhood, Aubervilliers
A NIGHT IN DETROIT: TONY ALLEN PRESENTS BLACK SERIES FROM LAGOS TO DETROIT
United States, Nigeria, Ivory Coast / The master of Afro-beat rhythm of Lagos has an alliance with the cream of the victorious Black Detroit Sound.
Tony Allen, Fela's former drummer with whom he created the Afrobeat in the 70s, continues to increase musical experiences. In this new project, it binds in the same scene Africanness of Lagos and that of Detroit, to create a bridge between two founding cities of urban musical trends among the strongest in decades. With this strong team-Oghene Kologbo and Cesar Anot, pillars of the rhythm section of Africa 80, the Anglo-Nigerian rapper Ty, one of the most influential time on the British scene, Dez Andres - the famous DJ group hip hop Slum Village, and Amp Fiddler, prime contractor for this special evening dedicated to Detroit - which is undertaking a new and explosive alloy of musical expression, impulses between Afrobeat, funk rhythms, hip hop punctuations, soulful melodies, scratches Ghettotech ... To say that jazz has produced all that!
Ty voice, Oghene Kologbo guitar, Amp Fiddler keyboards, vocals, Cesar Anot bass, drums Tony Allen, DJ Dez Andres
Photos © Bernard Benant
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AMP FIDDLER MOTOR CITY REMIX
U.S., Cuba, UK / "The history of my city is revolutionary both musically and socially. "According to the funkyssime Amp Fiddler, supervisor of the journal jazz-soul-funk-techno-rap made in Detroit.
Nicknamed the "Motor City" by its industrial past, Detroit drained a lot of talent from the 1960s, with its stars and Motown Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes and the Temptations, the MC5 and the Stooges, the P- funk of George Clinton, the great pioneers of techno ... Versant less known but equally essential, soul-funk of Dramatics or energizing Bohannon, pop discoid of Was (Not Was), the rap of Jay Dilla, and battalions A versatile jazz musicians ... that sums up the career of Amp Fiddler who, after putting his fingers and his voice alongside many of these artists, took over this futuristic Remix treasures of his hometown, a quartet with increased brass choir and luxury (N'Dea Davenport of Brand New Heavies, Paul Hill Funkadelic) ... "One City under a groove! "
http://www.3dfamily.org/promokits/MCR/MOTOR_CITY_REMIX.html
Amp Fiddler keyboards, vocals, Paul Hill, N'Dea Davenport voice, guitar Rob Bacon, trumpeter Rasul Siddik, Mario Morejon Hernandez trumpet, Irving Acao Sierra tenor saxophone, alto saxophone Tony Kofi, Denis Rodriguez Cuni trombone, bass Preston Crump, Ron Wright battery
Photo © John Roe
Cully Jazz Festival co-production, Suburbs Blue
Age limit: All ages