Trips' Ramblings

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Friday Oct. 12- Budos Band, Chicago Afrobeat Project & Brooklyn Qawwali Party- at Highline Ballroom!












The Highline Ballroom in Chelsea is a great concert space with high ceilings, amazing sound quality, phenoemenal, rustic exposed-brick finish interiors and a balcoy-level bar and seating area for better viewing pleasure. And here's a chance to see not one but three innovative, incredible bands in the same space in one evening. The Budos Band, Chicago Afrobeat Project and the Brooklyn Qawwali Party perform at Highline on Friday, Oct. 12 @ 7:30pm

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Info:
When: Friday, Oct. 12 @ 7:30pm
Where: Highline Ballroom
431 W. 16th Street, (between 9th and 10th Ave), New York City, NY 10011
The event: Three great bands- 11-piece funk and soul group "The Budos Band" offers up nasty cuts of afro-influenced psychedelic funk. The Budos Band has erupted onto the Funk and Soul scene with a malicious sound that all but commands you to burn down the dance floor. This eleven piece group offers up nasty cuts of cosmic afro-influenced psychedelic funk that haunt your head long after the music stops. With one 7'' that's currently blowing up DJ booths on both sides of the Atlantic, The Budos Band unleashes their first full length record on the mighty Daptone Records label. http://www.myspace.com/budosband/budosband
Chicago Afrobeat Project mixes traditional afrobeat with other dance-invoking musical motifs such as Chicago's electronic house music, complex West African percussion rhythms and upbeat funk. Chicago Afrobeat Project is a dynamic musical collective rooted in '70s funk and jazz-infused afrobeat. CAbP mixes traditional afrobeat with other dance-invoking musical motifs such as Chicago's electronic house music, complex West African percussion rhythms and upbeat funk. At each performance, the polyrhythmic groove and sharp horn lines of CAbP stir up energetic momentum, sweeping listeners directly to the dance floor time and time again.
Chicago Afrobeat Project Homepage

Brooklyn Qawwali Party is a group of 14 New York jazz musicians whose music is inspired by recordings of the late great Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Inspired by recordings of the late great Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Brooklyn Qawwali Party was founded by Brook Martinez in 2004 as an experiment. What would happen if New York jazz musicians were to play and improvise around the melodies of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? From this idea, Brooklyn Qawwali Party was born. BQP consists of fourteen musicians: five horns, three percussionists, guitar, acoustic bass, harmonium and three designated clappers. The exuberant sound of BQP has been enthusiastically welcomed in New York City and across the globe.