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African Fusion / Electronica LONDON (UK) AFRICAN FUSION / ELECTRONICA LONDON (UK) Afriquoi are the 5-piece outfit that take the influence of UK house, funky, garage, dubstep and glitch and fuse it with traditional African melodies, harmonies and rhythms plus a dose of dancehall vocals. The band came to life in 2011 after percussionist and promoter www.wormfood.co.uk André Marmot arranged a session with Jally, Nico, Fiston and Kudaushe, and the team never looked back. Their infectious vibe www.wormfood.co.uk/afriquoi-2 and sound is totally unique. www.afriquoi.com Featuring a diverse array of hyper-talented musicians from Congo, DISCOGRAPHY: Gambia, Bostswana and the UK, Afriquoi combine live instruments, electronics and vocal effects to create live African dance music. KolabA 2015, WOrmfOOd As well as their spectacular 5-piece live show, Afriquoi are also available for DJ sets and semi-live DJ sets featuring live percussion ”The band’s energy onstage is infectious” - and MCs. Songlines Magazine Afriquoi is releasing a new single in March 2016 on Wormfood records, and a new EP in May. Remixes of Terakaft, Pierre STREAMING: Kwenders and Amadou Diagne are scheduled to be released next • wormfoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/afriquoi-kolaba year. DJ MIXES: Group Size: 5 artists • soundcloud.com/dimensionsfestival/afriquoi-dimensions-2015-mix-10 DJ Set: 1-3 artists (Optional: live percussions and Kora) • www.mixcloud.com/afriquoi/because-of-the-beauty/ • www.mixcloud.com/afriquoi/afriquoi-new-year-20142015-mix/ Booking Scandinavia: d to the on le c f Marisa Segala VIDEO: e t S +45 / 25 61 82 82 • Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre as part of Africa Utopia: [email protected] www.secondtotheleft.com vimeo.com/141264895 Skype: marisa.segala.bennett .: MORE LINKS / LIVE VIDEOS ON PAGE 3 :. VIDEO Glastonbury 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gY5iSaCuPc Mokako @ Terminal Studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95IX0GiCFcY Kudaushe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD99b7PK8mo West Country Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjoJqyzeCSI Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre as part of Africa Utopia: PLAYED AT vimeo.com/141264895 Panemadzimai @ Richmix: 2015 http://youtu.be/XR3zWstmfgs WOMAD, Fuerteventura Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank Centre MEDIA (album launch as part of AFRICA UtoPIA festival) 3000Grad, Germany Remix of Vieux Farka Touré: LandjUWEEL FESTIAL, Ruigoord, Netherlands (headline) http://www.okayafrica.com/2013/10/17/vieux-farka-toure-maiga-afriquoi-remix/ DIMENSIONS FestivaL, Croatia KRIBISKRABISFestivaL, Italy STREAMING SECRET GARDEN PartY, UK TESTIMONIALS Soundcloud: Beat HERDER, UK www.Soundcloud.com/afriquoi KELBURN GARDEN FestivaL, Scotland “Yo this tune is not exactly up my street… it’s like, in my flat, in my HIFI CLUB, Leeds kitchen and in my living room, just groovin n doin its thing bruv!!!!” Lovebox FestivaL, London DJ Zhao, Ngoma Sound DJ MIX King’s Place (SONGLINES ENCOUNTERS FestivaL) www.mixcloud.com/afriquoi/because-of-the-beauty/ EDEN FestivaL, Scotland “This shit is amazing” soundcloud.com/dimensionsfestival/afriquoi-dimensions-2015-mix-10 KAZIMIER, Liverpool DJ Umb, Generation Bass www.mixcloud.com/afriquoi/afriquoi-new-year-20142015-mix/ Earlier Concerts: “Super tight mix of Afro and house” - August 2014: SHAMBALA FestivaL Nikhil Shah, Mixcloud founder FACEBOOK Boomtown FestivaL June 2014: GLastonbURY FestivaL (Hell Stage, Shangrila) ”The band’s energy onstage is infectious” - www.Facebook.com/afriquoi June 2014: FUSION FestivaL, Germany Songlines Magazine September 2013: BestivaL, Isle of Wight DOWNLOAD ASSETS July 2012: London OLYMPICS ”Afriquoi knows how to keep the adrenalin flowing and they more than lived up to their reputation as crowd-pleasers” Photos - Bio - Press - Riders Rooms Magazine https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9wVM2fwxoC_MENuUFFKaXRLNEk&usp=sharing INTRODUCING... Search News & Blogs Archive Select Month Subscribe & Share Live review | News & Blogs RSS feed Songlines Encounters festival, Kings Place, June 5 Posted on June 8th, 2015 in Live, recent posts, reviews by Jo frost. www.songlines.co.uk/world-music-news/?p=18929 Photography by Haydn Wheeler Read our review of Thursday (June 4) with Gisela João and Monsieur Doumani Read our review of Saturday (June 6) with Shikor Bangladesh All Stars, Lokkhi Terra and She’Koyokh Jo Frost revels in some extra special encounters The second night of Songlines Encounters Festival started with a screening of the excellent documentary film, Sisters, by Andrew Smith, about Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat from Iran. It shows them at home in Tehran, talking about the ancient Persian poems they sing and the censorship they face. It’s a beautiful, reflective insight into their lives. So they started by inviting both Jally beats. It’s club music for those with London (UK) Following this in Hall One was the Scottish fiddler Duncan Chisholm (featured in #106) who really conjured up the atmosphere and Kebba and Lusambo to the initial more discerning tastes, and it has beauty of his home in the Highlands. Superbly accompanied by fellow Scot Matheu Watson on guitar and Jarlath Henderson on AFRIQUOI recording sessions. been winning them fans at every uilleann pipes and flute, Chisholm’s playing has a real grace and delicacy. His trio of albums, The Strathglass Trilogy are named Alexandra Petropoulos speaks to It’s clear that both Jally Kebba and show. “When we’re onstage it’s like an after the glens of Affric, Farrar and Cannich where the Chisholm clan have lived for 700 years. the London-based group mixing up Lusambo prefer to experiment with unstoppable energy force and you know Following the trio in the second half, were the aforementioned sisters, Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat (featured in #107). They are normally accompanied by musicians, but on this occasion Mahsa played the setar (Iranian lute) and Marjan, the daf (hand-held the traditions from which they’ve that everyone is going to like it,” Espeut African grooves with electro sounds drum). But most of the time, it was just the voices – strong, deeply intense and when they sing together, the harmonies are exquisite sprung. Jally Kebba, who comes from says. “And it’s a really nice feeling to and enthralling in the way that only two siblings who have been singing together all their lives can be. “To sing a capella, you feel he Brixton café is buzzing and a griot family in the Gambia, tells me know before you go onstage that you’re completely naked,” said Mahsa at one point, and it’s true, the sheer power and sentiment conveyed is remarkable. I’m surrounded by the members that he had two choices when he first going to get that kind of response.” One of the aims of Songlines Encounters Festival has been to try and encourage the artists – regardless of their origin and musical of Afriquoi – the atmosphere moved to the UK: to go the traditional This inclusive, 21st-century musical traditions – to perform together, to create a real musical encounter. Of course, these sorts of collaborations cannot be forced T and have to happen naturally, albeit with a little help and suggestion from Songlines. So it was incredibly gratifying to see Chisholm, is alight with laughter. It’s obvious route, or to branch off into something ethos is reflected in their name, as Henderson and Watson joining the sisters onstage for two songs, including ‘The Moon of our Beloved’s Face’ by Iran’s national that percussionist Andre Marmot, new. “I feel like I need to open different Marmot explains. “I’ve been lucky poet, Hafez. “It was hard not to be mesmerised by their voices,” said Watson afterwards. But the subtle addition of the trio’s Gaelic Gambian kora player Jally Kebba Susso, doors. [The traditional] door was enough to make loads of trips to Africa melodies brought another beautiful and intricate layer to the songs and the soaring flute and violin a gorgeous lightness, perfectly appropriate for their final song, ‘Twinklings of Hope’. Congolese guitarist Fiston Lusambo, already open; I could use it any time and one thing I noticed is in the French singer Andre Espeut, and production I wanted to.” Similarly Lusambo, who West African countries people would After such an intense and emotive set, it came as a bit of shock to wander into Hall Two and find Afriquoi (featured in #108) were bringing the house down with their full-on, African party music. The band’s energy onstage is infectious and the fast and furious pro Nico Bentley love working together. was a famous rumba guitarist back often say ‘quoi’ after a sentence, a bit rhythms on an array of instruments, including the Congolese guitarist Fiston Lusambo and kora played by Gambian Jally Kebba Each of them have their own projects home, refuses to be pigeon-holed. like the way English people might say Susso, brought the evening to a rousing and glowing end. and bands, but it’s obvious that their “If you say ‘please play reggae,’ I will ‘innit.’ So that’s a very African thing, Afro-dance project is a labour of love. not listen to you because I like to play and for years I started thinking of Africa The project started four years ago as music that hasn’t got a name. That’s as Afriquoi. That was my pet name for the brainchild of Marmot and Bentley. why I like Afriquoi. At the moment we the whole continent. But then when this “We really wanted to put together a are playing music people enjoy, but it’s project came to be it made sense to call fusion of African music and UK dance not one thing.” Jally Kebba continues, it that. It’s also basically saying it’s Afro, music,” Marmot explains. “Nico and “this project is a journey between two but so what? It’s African-esque but not I had worked together on a different things.
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