Barbes APAP

Barb�s Shows during APAP: 92y Tribeca, Dom & Barb�s -

2011-12-30T13:52:16Z

Barbès Records will present a number of its artists during APAP week at the following venues:
Admission is free with an APAP badge.

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- The first edition of the Omniphonic Festival: Friday 01/06 and Saturday 01/07 at 92y Tribeca
- Barbès Takes Manhattan, Saturday 01/07 at DROM.
- and Thursday through Monday, every night at Barbès, in Brooklyn.

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CHICHA LIBRE - Psychedelic Cumbia
New album, Canibalismo! available in May of 2012 (Barbès/Crammed Disc)
Sat 01/07 - Drom
Mon 01/09 - Barbès

HAZMAT MODINE - Global Blues
Winners of this year's prestigious France's Charles Cros Award.
Fri 01/06 - 92y tribeca

LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE - Latin beats & classical harmonies
Fri 01/06 - 92y tribeca

LES CHAUDS LAPINS - French Swing & Chanson
Sat 01/07 - 92y Tribeca

Pierre de Gaillande's BAD REPUTATION sings Georges Brassens
Sat 01/07- 92y tribeca

SLAVIC SOUL PARTY - Balkan-American Brass band
New album available Summer of 2012.
Sat 01/07 - - 92y tribeca

And check the Barbès Schedule for performances Thursday through Monday by
Banda de Los Muertos, Smokey's Secret Family, Dayny Kurtz, Rachelle Garniez and more..

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VENUES

92y Tribeca
200 Hudson Street (below Canal St)
New York, NY 212.601.1000

DROM
85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th)
New York, NY - (212) 777-1157

Barbès
376 9th St. Corner of 6th ave in Park Slope, Brooklyn

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The World and Barbes at DROM for APAP.

2011-12-23T06:40:54Z

Barbès, Barbès Records and Electric Cowbell are proud to present an all night APAP showcase at DROM, in the East Village, featuring some outstanding music from, Brooklyn, Mali, Peru, Virginia and Serbia.

Free to all APAP badge holders.

BARBES and ELECTRIC COWBELL
TAKE MANHATTAN
at DROM
Jan 7th, 2011 7:00pm-11:00pm

With
Smokey Hormel, Chicha Libre,
Raya Brass band, Cheick Hamala Diabate,
No BS Brass! and DJ Geko Jones.

For the past few years, Barbès has been presenting a Manhattan showcase timed to coincide with the APAP conference - an annual rite which, every January, brings musicians from around the world to New York. This year, Barbès has teamed up with fellow brooklynites, label Electric Cowbell, to bring a particularly exciting roster to the always suspect borough of Manhattan.

Electric Cowbell is a new record label dedicated to release 45rpm seven inch vinyl of new talent (from the Debo Band, to Talibam!, Khaira Arby and Superhuman Happiness). Like barbès, the label doesn't believe distinctions of genre are always pertinent and promotes like-minded musicians who operate in mediums as varied as Funk, Afrobeat, Latin psychedelia, Balkan music or Second Line brass music.

Barbès is a Brooklyn club which, next spring, will be celebrating ten years of eclectic programming - from classical string quartets to Ukrainian polyphonies, Forro and American Qawwali.

This edition of our Manhattan invasion will feature the congolese musings of Smokey Hormel, the electric cumbias of Chicha LIbre, the improvisations of Malian griot Cheick Hamal Diabate, No BS! Brass' brand of funk, the Brooklyn Balkan hybrid that is Raya and the Pan-latin tropical sound of DJ Geko Jones.

8:00pm
NO BS! BRASS BAND
A powerful brass band from Richmond VA that infuses the spirit of New Orleans into its original East Coast modern funk. They draw inspiration from funk, jazz, klezmer, calypso, and Led Zeppelin and while most members have conservatory training, they strive for heart-pounding energy and uncontrollable dancing.

8:45pm
CHEIKH HAMALA DIABATE
Cheick Hamala Diabate is a Malian griot and a master of the ngoni, a traditional instrument. He started his career at a young age playing with Malian musical greats, including Toumani Diabate (a first cousin), Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Toure and Salif Keita. Upon coming to the US, Cheick Hamala was intrigued by the resemblance between his ngoni and the American banjo, even sharing tunings and picking styles. He has since learned to play the banjo at a virtuosic level, including collaborations with Bela Fleck and Bob Carlin. Cheick’s album of banjo duets with Carlin, From Mali to America, was nominated for a grammy in 2007 for Best Traditional World Music Album.

9:30pm
SMOKEY'S SECRET FAMILY
Smokey Hormel’s résumé reads like a history of American popular music over the decades. He has worked closely with Beck, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, and Neil Diamond. His projects have included the Brazilian-influenced Smokey and Miho, as well as an ongoing tribute to Western swing. His latest endeavor is an idiosyncratic take on early Congolese rumba. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, African musicians looked to Cuba for inspiration. They recognized African roots in the music but were also captivated by its cosmopolitan aspect, which mirrored the evolution of their own culture. Using the electric guitar—fast becoming the symbol of urban culture—they forged a new hybrid that became an early soundtrack of decolonization. Hormel has hybridized the music further and taken it to the Americas for the second time. Keeping its pre-rock roots intact, he relies on a core sound of “wild guitars bursting through small amps afloat on a sea of hand drums and shakers."

10:10pm
CHICHA LIBRE
Chicha LIbre is a Brooklyn collective made up of French, American, Venezuelan and Mexican musicians who mix up covers of Peruvian electric cumbia with original compositions in French, Spanish and English, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by the likes of Satie, Love and Joe Dassin. In the past year, the group has brought its music to Istanbul, Madrid, Berlin and Copenhagen, but has been especially welcome in South America where its mix of Tropical experimentation and psychedelia has proved extremely popular. Chicha Libre's second album is a psychedelic bender with a majority of original compositions and nods to Wagner and Los Mirlos. It will be released by Barbès Records and Crammed disc in April of 2012.

11:00pm
RAYA BRASS BAND.
Raya Brass Band gleefully mashes up the music of Eastern Europe with funky American dance grooves. Featuring odd meters, unusual scales and a fine helping of gorgeous Balkan and Romany (Gypsy) melodies played on reeds, trumpet, accordion, tuba and drums, Raya Brass Band slakes the thirst for something old and new at the same time, unusual and catchy, spiritedly played by some of NYC's finest Balkan folk musicians. Greg Squared (clarinet), Ben Syversen (trumpet), Matthew Fass (accordion), Don Godwin (tuba) and EJ Fry (tupan).

11:30pm and In between sets
GEKO JONES
Geko Jones is a Brooklyn-based Puerto-lombian DJ and Producer. He is a founding member of both the New York Tropical and Que Bajo?! party franchises in New York. He is also a partner and co-owner of the Dutty Artz record label with producer Matt Shadetek and DJ /Rupture. His mixes span the tropical hemispheres and collage together globally sonic hours of dancefloor mayhem. Renowned by top DJ's and producers of the digital cumbia scene in Latin America and European bass-pundits alike, Jones is one of the select few DJ's pushing forward the Latin agenda in a world wide tropical bass scene. The past five years have found him sharing a booth or collaborating with a long roster of A-list globalistas like Uproot Andy, Radioclit, ZZK, Maluca, Dub War, Toy Selectah and more.

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Barbès & Electric Cowbell Takes Manhattan
Saturday December 7th
DROM
Doors open at 6:30pm
Admission $10
Free with APAP badges
Drom is located at 85 Ave. A in Manhattan
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/
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Contacts:
Olivier Conan (Barbès) Olivierconan@gmail.com
Jimmy thomson (Electric Cowbell): dimsum66@gmail.com

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Barb�s Records APAP showcase at DROM, jan. 8th

2010-12-23T12:01:01Z

BARBES TAKES MANHATTAN - Part Two.
DROM
Jan 8th, 2011 7:00pm-11:00pm

Timed to coincide with the APAP conference, Barbès takes part of its roster across the chilly waters of the East River to showcase some of its best talent. For the past eight years, the Brooklyn club and related label have become synonymous with adventurous eclecticism. On any typical night Barbès’ backroom will showcase a classical string quartet, Carpathian singers, an avant-garde theremin player, Brazilian Forro, Balkan Brass, a mandingo guitarist or Peruvian surf music. This year, Barbès will attempt to take Manhattan with a couple of Americans singing French swing classics (Les Chauds Lapins), followed by the work of a French chanson icon sung in English (Bad Reputation), American Blues filtered through a giant global prism (Hazmat Modine), Peruvian Chicha played a Franco-Venezuelan- American crew (Chicha Libre) and a tribute to Qawwali great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan by a typical Brooklyn collective (Brooklyn Qawwali Party). Global music made local.
Most bands already have an extensive international career and have individually toured in Europe, Asia and South America and have been featured on NPR, PBS, the NY Times and more. Admission is free with your APAP badge.

* LES CHAUDS LAPINS - (French 30's Chanson)7:30PM
* PIERRE DE GAILLANDE'S BAD REPUTATION - (Brassens adapted in English)- 8:15PM
* CHICHA LIBRE - (Psychedelic cumbia 9:00PM
* HAZMAT MODINE - (Global Americana) 9:45PM
* BROOKLYN QAWWALI PARTY - (American Qawwali) 10:30PM

LES CHAUDS LAPINS 7:30pm
Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt cover Charles Trenet songs and other jewels from the French 30's and 40's musical traditions accompanying themselves on banjo-ukes. Prior to their re-incarnation as French entertainers, Meg was better known as one third of the Roulette sisters and Kurt as a reed player and composer who co-led cult instrumental band the Ordinaires and recorded with such luminaries as They Might be Giants, Frank Black, Firewater, and Drink Me. They are backed by a string section composed of Karen Waltuch - violin; Ian Riggs- bass and Garo Yellin - Cello.

PIERRE DE GAILLANDE'S BAD REPUTATION 8:15
Georges Brassens songs revolutionized French Chanson in the 50's and 60's. He was an anarchist bard whose songs could be raunchy, polemic or poignant but always remained steeped in classic French poetry. He went on to become one the most emblematic French singer of the 20th century but his songs, unlike those of his friend Jacque Brel, never became known outside of France.
Franco-American singer and composer Pierre de Gaillande has translated a number of Brassens songs. He has stuck to the rhyming scheme and verse length of the original song and re-arranged the music with a great cinematic sensibility, using a combination of guitars, clarinets, lapsteel and charango. The result has been hailed on both side on the Atlantic and has even lead to a collaboration with Brassens' long time guitarist who has embraced the project. Weekend Edition's Scott Simon just ran a segment on the project which you can listen to here.

CHICHA LIBRE 9:00pm
The Brooklyn band is at the forefront of a movement to revalorize chicha, the syncretic mix of rock, psychedelia, surf and cumbia that was popular in Peru in the 70's. As its name indicates, Chicha Libre takes liberties with the genre, adding touches of classical music, French pop as well as a general Brooklyn attitude - but keeping it all on the dance floor. The group has been featured on the show Weeds and on the Simpson's twentieth anniversary special. They have brought their eclectic psychedelic blend to Istanbul, London, Berlin, Portugal, Womex and Globalfest and, lucky them, will be in Colombia, Peru and Argentina this winter.

HAZMAT MODINE 9:45pm
Hazmat Modine plays the kind of Blues one might have found in a whorehouse in New Orleans had the city been built on the Black Sea. The band is driven by a pair of dueling harmonicas, backed by tuba, drums, guitars, and a horn section. Occasional guests play such exotic instruments as the Chinese mouth-organ, the bass sax and the normaphone. Hazmat has found an increasingly receptive audience in Europe where they have been nominated for a BBC award and tour a good part of the year. They just backed Natalie Merchant on a few songs on her latest album. Their long-awaited follow-up to Bahamut will be released this spring and will include collaborations with Natalie Merchant, Benin's extraordinary Gangbe Brass Band as well as the Kronos Quartet.

BROOKLYN QAWWALI PARTY 10:30
Paying tribute to one of the world's great vocalists, Brooklyn Qawwali Party formed to honor the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, reworking his thunderous songs for an eclectic, eleven-piece orchestra comprised of groundbreaking jazz musicians. Funky, smart, and loving, BQP captures the joyful spirit of this Pakistani folk music in a unique instrumental blend of jazz and Qawwali. With five horns, guitar, bass, harmonium, and three percussionists, this band's buoyant rhythm will be sure to get you on your feet and clapping.

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Barbès Takes Manhattan
Saturday December 8th.
Doors open at 6:30pm
Admission $10
Free with APAP badges
Drom is located at 85 Ave. A in Manhattan
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/
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Contact: Olivier Conan 718 288 1761. Olivierconan@gmail.com

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