Friday, 16.00, Molly's Bar:
Lady Nade
Lady Nade comes to WOMAD on the back of recent sell out performances at the Bristol Folk House, Bath Chapel Arts and Green Note London. Her voice speaks of long-lost jazz clubs and has a poise that belies her age. Drum and bass legend Roni Size has praised Lady Nade as “another hidden treasure from Bristol” and Ian Matthews of Kasabian has described her as “unique, wonderful, deep and soulful with a voice which has the power to move you.”
19.00 - World Rhythm:
Orange Blossom France
Electric whirlpools, electronic storms, Oriental arabesques: insolent mixing which is not satisfied with half measures.
The music of Orange Blossom suggests a free world of doubts where East and West fraternize with ease. It’s an idea dreamed up by Carlos Robles Arenas (drummer, percussionist and composer) and Pierre Jean Chabot violinist, both of them passionate of world music. During a residence in Cairo, both were caught up in the spells cast by the songs they heard. And thus was born the frame of a richly coloured musical world that culminates in their first album from 2005, which was succeeded in 2014, after a long maturation, Under TheShade of Violets. Valuable, innovative, undoubtedly one of the treasures of world music.
Friday, 20.30, BBC Radio 3 stage:
Ibeyi France/Cuba
Call it sororal intuition, but there’s definitely an extra dimension to the music made by sisters. Whether it’s the McGarrigles, the Unthanks or First Aid Kit, there’s a shared understanding that lifts their art a notch or two above the rest. And so it is with Ibeyi, the fascinating duo formed by the Díaz twins, Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé, and signed to the super-cool XL Recordings label. Their musical sixth sense informs every inch of their mimimalist sound – low-tempo songs delivered through the medium of piano, electronics, percussion and twin barrels of spiritually charged vocals. Despite their French-Cuban parentage, they actually sing in English and Yoruba, the latter reflecting the Nigerian heritage of their ancestors. And when they sing, the emotion is stripped to the bone, no more so than on Mama Says, the lump-in-the-throat song about the passing of their father, Buena Vista Social Club conga player Miguel ‘Anga’ Díaz
Friday, 20.15, Siam Tent:
Tinariwen Mali
The desert is a place of hardship and subtle beauty, a stark world that reveals its secrets slowly and carefully. Life in the desert is resilient and strong, and the people are gentle giants among the sand, storms, and sun. For Saharan blues band Tinariwen, the desert is their home, and their hypnotic and electrifying guitar rock reflects complex realities of their homebase in north west Africa.
They are Tuareg, descended from nomadic people who have wandered the dunes for millennia, but the music of Tinariwen travels too, reverberating far from dusty plains of Mali. Their 2011 album Tassili, recorded in the Algerian desert - in a tent and under the stars with a esteemed cadre of musicians including Nels Cline and TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone - won a grammy award for best world music. Now their new record Emmaar returns to their roots, delivering stripped-down dirges, effervescent anthems, and above all, a return to simplicity and honesty.
Saturday, 19.00, Open Air Stage
Tiken Jah Fakoly Cote d’Ivoire
If individuals are conditioned by their environment, then Tiken Jah Fakoly is very much the son of Denguélé, a northern region of Côte d’Ivoire whose capital is Odienné. Moussa Doumbia was born there on June 23, 1968, and it was in that densely forested land that he grew up, went to school, gave his initial concerts and fell in love for the first time. A few kilometers to the west of Odienné lies the border with Guinea. A little further to the north is Mali. And if you travel east, you quickly reach Burkina Faso and Ghana. Tiken, a child of that cultural crossroads, stands at its center today, as Dernier Appel (Last Call) makes clear. His most pan-African album to date, it is also his most universal, given that the issues it explores inspire ideas that concern us all, and given that the genre he reigns over unchallenged, reggae, results from an inspired fusion, has a unique ability to unite us and increases awareness as it packs dance floors everywhere.
Saturday, 18.00, Siam Tent
Saturday, 18.00, Siam Tent
Mbongwana Star Congo
Once upon a time, we thought we had a handle on Congolese music. It was either the classic, trembling sound of rhumba or its super-charged younger sibling, soukous. Over the last decade, though, the country’s music has gone through a period of constant redefinition, thanks to the likes of super-innovative visionaries like Konono No 1 and Staff Benda Bilili. And now there’s Mbongwana Star, a seven-piece who warp preconceptions further still. Featuring a couple of Staff Benda Bilili alumni, the Mbongwana Star sound is many things: fascinating, absorbing, unsettling, enthralling. There are trademark Congolese guitars at the heart of it, but they’re cocooned in echo, distortion and electronics. Their debut album for the World Circuit label has received unanimous praise from the press, won over by this hauntingly futuristic record. As the man from Mojo had it: “the jungle is still rumbling”.
Film Screening of We Are Many - Amir Amirani
Day Three - Saturday, 18:30-21:00
Iranian born film-maker Amir Amirani will be bringing his highly acclaimed documentary about the 2003 Iraq war demonstrations, We Are Many for an exclusive festival screening, talk, and question and answer session.
‘Anyone doubting the value of protest should watch this film, for proof that the ripples of political pebbles can spread wide, and far beyond any immediate effects.’
★★★★★
Huffington Post UK
Saturday, 21.30, Big Rent Tent:
Daddy G & MC Deemas J UK
The tall frame of Daddy G has always looked good behind a pair of decks. From the days of marshalling the turntables as part of the Wild Bunch at Bristol’s legendary Dug Out club in the early ’80s, the man who would go on to achieve worldwide acclaim as one-third of Massive Attack has always loved sharing his favourite tunes. His vast collection – and encyclopaedic knowledge – of classic Reggae, Dancehall,Dub Step and Drum and Bass will surely come to bear when he’s joined by MC Deemas J, the fast-tongued toaster whose machine-gun delivery never fails to thrill.
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