WOMAD

The Shrine

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Information provided by The Shrine management, May 2002:AT WOMAD 2002Friday 26 July 2002SHAKIN’ THE WALLS OF THE TEMPLEThe SHRINE at WOMAD presents the ultimate Rebel music session, filled with a dazzling succession of roots-digital live acts, fast moving visuals and DJ sets. From 8pm to 2am, the night will become a non-stop party that only the Shrine can deliver, overflowing with breathtaking new music and roots music in digital settings from all over Africa and the Diaspora.Here’s the stunning lineup - a panorama stretching from Ghanaian Roots, through a live/digital encounter with the Godfather of Afrobeat, Tony Allen, exploring all the bases of Afrobeat – roots, funk and jazz-, to a slamming Red Leb Hip Hop set from Clotaire K. CLOTAIRE K (Sublime Oud Rap)FONTOMFROM - Ghanaian Percussion Roadblock withNANA TSIBOE NANA APPIAH ASABRE QUAYE ADESOSE WALLACE JOJO YATESAll star Shrine Synchro System feat. TONY ALLEN – the c0-creator of AFROBEATDJ’s RITA RAY & MAX REINHARDTANDY SHEPPARD, CLAUDE DEPPATY, SHINGAI SHONIWA & THIERRY DIALLODance: ADURA ONASHILE & AFRODELICAVisuals: YOUR MUMNOTES ON ARTISTSCLOTAIRE KClotaire K. currently lives in Montpelier, in the deep south of France, but his inspiration comes from much further away: from his Lebanese and Egyptian origins and from the Hip Hop and breakbeats he came to passionately adore when he spent some time in LA and NYC. He brought these diverse musical traditions with his third musical love, the sampler and digital culture.Clotaire supremely mastered the alchemy of bringing it all together, effortlessly blending Um Kulthum and Grandmaster Flash, fusing Afro-American beats and Middle Eastern music and then addressing millions of young Lebanese people living throughout the world with his coruscating lyrics. After listening to his music, artists like Natacha Atlas, Asian Dub Foundation hounded him to support their tours as special guest band. Now the Shrine welcomes another hot rebel to its hallowed stage – Clotaire K, who raps, sings and plays oud, plus rappers, dancer, DJ, and a rocking rhythm section (bass player + drummer).Hear him tell it like it is, totally aware that a conscious use of a simple microphone can have a stronger impact than any conventional weapon.Unmissable –Come feel the heat!!!FONTOMFROMGhanaian Percussion Roadblock withNANA TSIBOE NANA APPIAH ASABRE QUAYEADESOSE WALLACE JOJO YATESThis band is a Rhythmic Tornado powered entirely by West African Master Drummers and Percussionists. Expect No Mercy.NANA TSIBOE: Nana came from Accra, Ghana in the late ‘70’s and his beautiful voice and staggering percussion and drumming has graced many a project including his own Asem Ni! album for World Circuit, dade Krame, Ojah and his Ghanaian Afrobeat band coming to you this year. He’s played with Louis Moholo, Dudu Pukwana, Ali Farka Toure and Trevor Watts’ Moire Music Drum OrchestraNANA APPIAH: Drums, voice and wea flute. Nana’s from Tarkwa Ghana and has played and toured with Gil Scott Heron, Dade Krame, Dargati Arts, Bushmasters, Moire Music Drum Orchestra and Keith Waithe, to name but a few.ASABRE QUAYE: Asabre Quaye is from the fishing towns close to Accra, Ghana. His powerful Saneko African Jazz Percussion Group tours the UK annually. It comprises some of Ghana's finest traditional musicians playing West African percussion instruments, goje, xzylophone and flutes, but at the centre are the hypnotic sounds of the master drummer Asabre Quaye. ADESOSE WALLACE: master percussionist from Nigeria, founder and leader of Ibile, London's premiere pan west african band mixing up afrobeat, highlife and senegambian rhythms, textures and melodies to devastating effect. Regular member of our own Shrine Synchro systemJOJO YATES: From Sekondi, Ghana, Jojo plays mbira (twanga), kora, percussion, bells like the dawur, the dawur ta, the atoki and his playing credits include Gapar Lawal, Peter Green, Dade Krame, Music Drum Orchestra and Keith Waite.All star Shrine Synchro System feat. * TONY ALLEN – the co-creator of AFROBEAT* DJ’s RITA RAY & MAX REINHARDT* ANDY SHEPPARD, CLAUDE DEPPA* TY, SHINGAI SHONIWA & THIERRY DIALLOSHRINE SYNCHRO SYSTEM Our roots digital touring project, the Shrine Synchro System, is a specially deconstructed version of the Shrine - a seamless mix of slamming sounds and dazzling visuals and weaving in and out of the soundscape come stunning live contributions from musicians. blowing, strumming, bowing, singing and drumming over their beats. It’s a musical form they’ve been developing for over four years and since 2000 they’ve been touring internationally as the Synchro System, working with artists who reflect the principal elements of Afrobeat: culturally conscious poetry, radical politics, West African rhythms and melodies colliding with jazz, blues and funk. Artists we have worked with include legendary drummer TONY ALLEN, the incredible WUNMI, Nigerian rapper WEIRD MC, ERROL LINTON on harmonica and OUMAR SOW (guitarist/writer from Youssou N’Dour and Cheikh Lo’s bands). We’ve taken The Shrine Synchro System to Germany, Benelux, Turkey, France and, with the support of the British Council, to Uganda, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Finland and Russia.Fela Kuti intertwined Jazz and Funk with Highlife and Yoruba chants to create Afrobeat, one of the elemental musical forms of the 20th century and now a driving force in the van guard of new music here in the 21st. This Shrine Synchro System session is a mighty celebration of those African, Jazz and Funk roots. Come and sweat to the Mighty Force!!TONY ALLENTony met Fela Kuti , then a jazz radio presenter at Nigerian Broadcasting House, in 1964. Together they forged the puissant hybrid of highlife with a Nigerian touch and a sprinkling of funk that became AFROBEAT. ‘Afrobeat is a blend of all the rhythms you can hear in Africa’ he says. Tony’s solo career since the late ’70’s has seen him play solo and with African Stars like Sunny Ade, Manu Dibango and Ray Lema. With his new albums Black Voices, Psycho On Da Bus and this year’s Home Cookin’ (feat Ty and the ubiquitous Damon Albarn), Tony has once more become an irresistible force on the dance floor. He joined the SynchroSystem for a week in Berlin last year.DJ’s Rita Ray & Max Reinhardt: Duo HyperactifRITA RAY Rita is a club and radio DJ who plays the global musical spectrum. She, Max and Gerry revitalised the African music scene in London with the Mambo Inn; she plays at clubs all over Europe and Africa; guests regularly on BBC radio; arranges and produces records; DJ member of Andy Sheppard's Short Cuts; creates soundscapes for Nitro; programmes international music festivals in London; presented BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards 2001.MAX REINHARDTClub DJ, music writer, compiler, radio presenter (BBC WorldService / In Flight) and composer (children's theatre and TV), who plays and writes all round the global musical metissage. With Rita, he's co-hosted a string of innovative club nights in London and beyond, DJ's with Andy Sheppard's Short Cuts and programmes international music festivals in London.ANDY SHEPPARD & CLAUDE DEPPA In their improvisational quartet, Shortcuts, Andy and Claude have been exploring a sublime mix of jazz, beats and soundscapes with Rita and Max. Andy Sheppard is one of the best known and best loved figures in UK jazz, armed only with his phenomenal technique on saxes, he has been on a non-stop journey in search of new music from day one, pioneering the trail of collaborations between African and Uk artists. Claude Deppa is a volcanic S. African trumpeter, who has played with all the avant garde Jazz greats from Fela Kuti to McCoy Tyner, is undoubtedly one of the seven musical wonders of this world. Catch him leading the funkiest jazziest ensemble on God’s Earth and feel the planet rock on the one. TYLondon rapper/poet, whose distinctive style could only have come about in a city which buzzes with garage and hip hop, ragga and drum and bass, from a guy whose parents came to London from Lagos, Nigeria. He has a new album out on Big Dadda/Ninja Tune and has just featured on Tony Allen’s new album Homecooking SHINGAI SHONIWAA remarkable singer who draws on soul, funk, jazz and the hard-edged sounds of the modern dance and rock scenes; lead singer of thriving London Rock band Sonarfly ADURA ONASHILE Dancer, incorporating dance disciplines she was taught at College with the West African dance moves absorbed from her family background and created a unique dance style. She also runs her own dance troupe and teaches.THIERRY DIALLOFrench senegalese rapper singer and percussioinistYOUR MUM VISUALS – KELLY BUDGE AND BEN BRETTYour Mum Visuals use slides, film, video, graffiti and text to create an Afrocentric multi-layered projection installation of richly textured imagery especially for The Shrine. They feature vivid images of Africa which challenge preconceptions and celebrate the rich cultural landscape which continues to transform the music of the world with its vibrancy.SYNCHRO SYSTEMTHE SHRINE: BACKGROUNDInspired by Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Lagos club, The Shrine, and the rebirth of Afrobeat brought about, Jesus stylee, by Fela’s untimely death in 1997, the Shrine DJ Posse have been lobbing their lightning bolt of Afrosubversion into London Night Life for the last two years and their Rebel Music mission continues. Shrine sessions have rocked London venues like the Fridge, the Royal Festival Hall, the Jazz Cafe, the Barbican, the Spitz and now, Cargo, in the adrenalin fuelled heart of the City with DJ sets from the Shrine DJ posse Max Rita Ray, Max Reinhardt and Nikki Lucas, stunning visuals from Your Mum and live music. WEBSITE SOON COMING: www.theshrine.uk.com