On Thursday 19th 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, live and direct from London’s Cargo club.
Keeping the Leftfield alive at this year’s London Jazz Festival, Red Bull Music Academy will once again be bringing together a meeting of musical minds – something that is central to the Academy ethos. This particular Broad Casting brings together two contemporary innovators: LA’s Carlos Nino (one half of electronic legends Ammon Contact who also directs the incredible Sun-Ra inspired Build an Ark along with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson) and Holy Roller Production’s IG Culture (who has been pushing the boundaries of British soul, hip-hop, jazz and dance music for more than two decades).
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 previous albums. Build an Ark’s mission is to awaken a higher consciousness within their audience as anyone who has caught them live before will testify.
Carlos Nino enthused: “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 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 Culture will take to the stage with a unique DJ set. Having spent the afternoon sampling, looping and re-working Build an Ark’s rehearsal and sound-check, IG will create exclusive tracks to perform for the Broad Casting audience. Alongside these fresher than fresh Build an Ark dubs, he will be dropping the bombs and specials that he’s renowned for. This will be a truly unique experiment accompanied by jazz dancers such as Gary Nurse from legends of the underground.
IG Culture commented: "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..."
IG’s Zen Badizm Workshop project will also be taking centre stage, performing tracks from his incredible Japan only LP (also called Zen Badizm), released earlier this year on Freedom School records. He’ll channel 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, CoreyWilkes, 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.
DJ support throughout the night will come courtesy of resident Karen P and Rush Hour / Kindred Spirits’ very own Antal, over from the Netherlands especially for Broad Casting. All the performances will be recorded exclusively for Red Bull Music Academy Radio and tickets for the event are available now.
Need to know:
WHAT: Red Bull Music Academy and Karen P Present... Broad Casting
WHEN: Thursday 19th November
WHO: Build an Ark (Kindred Spirits, Los Angeles),
Zen Badizm Project (Holy Roller Productions, West London)
DJS: IG Culture + Karen P (Folded Wing) + Antal (Rush Hour / Kindred Spirits)
WHERE: Cargo, 83 Rivington St., Kingsland Viaduct, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY
07800 600 100 www.cargo-london.com
TIMES: 7pm-1am
COST: £10 ADV
TICKETS: www.cargo-london.com/
Want more?
www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.rbmaradio.com
Listen here to Broad Casting on Red Bull Music Academy Radio:
Broad Casting with: Joe Bataan and James Pants
Broad Casting with: Tony Allan with The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
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