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- World Of Music - Svastara - 2010
SZIGET
2010 Press release 2
Sziget 2010 11-16 Aug 2010, Budapest, Hungary
PRESS INFORMATION - Swirl of
world musicians
and Farewell Concert at Sziget
This year's World Music Stage at Sziget is seeing the greatest
international artists and most interesting aspiring stars of the world music
genre. Between
11th and 16th August 2010, this venue is about to give a taste of the best
of Eastern-European world music artists, and of course Hungarian specialities
of the genre cannot
be missed either. On 9 August 2010, day minus one of the Sziget festival, the
most influential Hungarian alternative rock band Kispál és a Borz will say
goodbye
to its fans with a unique mega-concert featuring the biggest hits of the last
23 years, the favourite Kispál songs of the band and a bunch of guest stars.
Goodbye Kispál!
If you happen to cross the Northern corner of Sziget throughout
the festival, you always find something interesting there. That's what is bound
to happen
this year, too, as the profoundly selected artist-list of the World Music Stage
is going to offer the greatest names of the genre. Among many others, highlight
of the event will see Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club®, accompanied by Omara
Portuondo – names that do not have to be introduced to local visitors of the
festival.
Oi-Va-Voi has celebrated their ten-year anniversary with standing
ovation last year at Sziget, so the success must be repeated this year, too.
They did
not yet have an album out when they had already been invited to high-ranking
festivals like Glastonbury and Meltdown: their debut album, entitled "Laughter
Through Tears", has climbed to the top of European world music radio charts
in 2003. With their 2009-album "Travelling The Face Of The Globe", the band
has produced its best album so far. Immaculate ethno-pop, with bright hits,
full
of variety and sensitivity. There is nothing to do, we want them back.
Tony Allen from Nigeria has made an entry in the history-book
of world music as the drummer of Fela Kuti. This in fact means nothing less
than being one
of the creators of afro-beat merged with funk, jazz and Nigerian melodies and
rhythms. Better to tell you in time: you must expect heavily funky, irresistible
African dance-tunes.
In 1992, when Los de Abajo was formed by eighteen-twenty year-old
university students, they used to play at underground venues and political
events. They
made their major breakthrough when they grabbed the attention of David Byrne,
and he has published their debut album entitled Los de Abajo within the compass
of his record label Luaka Pop in 1998. They have created and played ever since
an irresistibly capturing sound by merging ranchera music, rumba, salsa, punk,
hip hop and latin ska.
Rooted in Bucovina and born in Frankfurt, Stefan Hantel, has
turned into a slave to electronic club music throughout his studies in Paris
as an industrial
artist student. The major breakthrough took place when Shantel's 2005-album
Bucovina Club came out, which merged Eastern-European and Balcanic brassy dance
music and Arabian dance sounds. The following album, Disco Partizani has already
featured worldwide-known musicians (among others, Taraf de Haidouks, from the
band of Bratsch and Roy Paci), and by the time Planet Paprika had been published
in 2009, Shantal had not only become one of the most frequently-played artists
of world music-related radio programs, but together with Bucovina Club Orkestar,
he had also been a guest of the most famous festivals from Montreux Jazz Festival
to Glastonbury. The annual program of World Music Stage is going to be closed
with the pure carnival-atmosphere of his irresistible dance-music.
Beside the world stars of Sziget's World Music Stage, there
are the "pretenders",
namely the new stars of the international scene. Among them, for example, Rupa
and the April Fishes. Rupa Marya was born in San Francisco as the child of
Indian parents, and she grew up switching homes between California, India and
France. Hindi, English, Spanish and French are all languages that play an important
role in her songs, but she definitely has at least the same amount of musical
influences: a great amount of French chansons, with a touch of Balcan, India
and Mexico. The band has made its debut with its first album entitled "Extraordinary
Rendition", and in the following year they have already doubled the stake:
"Este Mundo" published in 2009 has definitely been one of the best world music
albums
of the year.
Amparo Sanchez was sixteen years old when she appeared in
Granada-based band Correcaminos, in 1986. The singer interested in jazz, soul,
blues as well as
rock decided to form her first own band Amparo and the Ganget as soon as possible.
In the mid-nineties, she has enriched her universe with Latin and Carribean
influences. In 2008, it was time Amparo hit a more personal tone. Her album
entitled Tucson-Habana featured artists like the American band Calexico. Since
then, they have recorded a number of tracks together, both for the albums for
Calexico and Amparo.
Within the multi-ethnic Raval quarter of Barcelona, the name
08001 belongs to a studio that welcomes young experimental artists with open
arms. That was
what had given ground to the forming of a promising collective featuring Arabian,
Spanish and British musicians, playing electronic-based club-music. You may
hear a touch of flamenco, but their sound is mainly built on North-African
rai and gnawa music, nevertheless always trying to avoid clichés, singing in
English, Spanish and Arabian, using traditional instruments as well as laptops.
They already proved last year how smashing their tunes are. Now we cannot wait
to see them once more...
Dirtmusic band has been created due the obsession with urban
folk-blues, by (Walkabouts-boss) Chris Eckman moving from Seattle to Ljlubljana,
former Bad
Seeds-member Hugo Race and Chris Brokaw (known from Come). After their first
record Dirtmusic came out in 2007, they bumped into the tuareg blues band
Tamikrest at Mali Desert Festival, and they have created their 2010-album entitled
"B.K.O."
together with them.
Perhaps one of the most stunning voices of the past few years'
Big Belgian Bang belongs to Jaune Toujours. The band led by vocalist-accordionist
Piet
Maris could list important influences like Lés Negresses Vertes and Mano Negra,
but they have also relied on bands like The Ramones or The Clash, and this
probably gives an idea what to expect upon their debut in Hungary. It indeed
is a unique fusion of chanson and rock that is open to Latin melodies, ska
and gypsy music, and of course reaches out to Balcanian brassy music, too.
And the main thing is that they always make their own, special sound that captures
you within a second, without any aftertaste.
World Music Stage in 2010 is offering a rather wide view when
it comes to the Eastern-European world music scene. The event is going to be
opened by
Cankisou from the Czech Republic, which - since its formation in 1999 - has
turned into one of the main bands of the Czech world music scene. Singer Karel
Herman's explosive performance, wild rhythms, breathtaking energy, heavy brasses,
and of course all the ingredients of rock music mixed with exotic folk instruments,
merging Slavic, Western and Asian music... just to name a few characteristics
of the five albums by Cankisou.
Kries from Croatia was formed in 2002. Founding member Mojmir
Novakovic has been successful with Kries right from the start: with their soundtrack
"Konjanik",
the band has won the prize for the best Croatian movie soundtrack, and then
in 2004, their debut-album "Ivo i Mara" has made a deep impact on the international
music-press. By the time their 2008-album "Kocijani" had been published, Kries
had already made it to the cover of high-ranking Folk Roots magazine, and played
at dozens of international festivals. And as if the band had just been dropped
from out of place, from a distant planet to Croatia, their music is a mix of
folklore, rock, space music and Slavic mythology and magic.
Rotfront collective has been formed seven years ago by immigrants
dwelling in Berlin, within the compass of the unbreakable Russian-Hungarian-German-American
friendship. Their first album came out in 2009, under the title "Emigrantski
Raggamuffin", which has been accompanied by a rather loud Western-European
tour, thus turning Rotfront from one minute to the other into one of the most
attractive
Eastern-European-flavoured partybands. This music surely has its special flavour,
ease, charm and sense of humour, and on top of all these, they surely have
a number of incredible hits to make Sziget dance like crazy.
Beside the two international success-stories of Romanian gypsy
music, Taraf de Haidouks and Fanfare Ciocarlia, another band named Mahala Rai
Banda has
made a public entrance in the past four-five years. And the main thing is:
this is elementary, amusing partymusic at its best, featuring outstanding singers,
so it is not at all a surprise that their 2009-album "Ghetto Blasters" has
become one of the most frequently played records of the European world music
radio-programs.
Detroit-born Daniel Kahn has been trying to create a summary
of Eastern-European Jewish musical tradition in the past few years. In 2005,
he founded his own
band Painted Bird, featuring American, Swedish, Russian and German musicians.
This act entails a rather unique merge of vitriolic political caberet, Brechtian
theatre, klezmer and punkrock, which is completely aware of its traditions,
however, can already be referred to as the klezmer of the 21st century. They
have produced two albums so far: The Broken Tongue (2006) and Partisans and
Parasites (2009) - the latter gaining a stunning international echo, featuring
klezmer-musicians like Paul Brody and Frank London.
And of course, local flavours cannot be missed from World
Music Stage either. The Romani folk-band Parno Graszt from the village of Paszab,
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg-county
has been active for fifteen years, and now they are going to play a concert
at Sziget, too. Csík band and their guests are coming too, and in the meanwhile,
they are getting more and more successful all over the world. Söndörgő band
are celebrating their fifteenth anniversary at Sziget this year, and they are
going to play together with the king of Macedonian gypsy music, Ferus Mustafov.
The band Kispál és a Borz started out form Pécs 23 years ago
and became the best known Hungarian band of what is referred to as 'alternative'
rock. In
the course of more than two decades they released 14 albums and numerous singles.
As well as being regarded as one of the most influential bands of the post-communist
era, their sound and lyrics created a "school" that left its mark not only
on the upcoming bands of the 2000's but still of present days'.
So that they go out in style, the unique farewell concert
boasting a spectacular stage and visual show is planned to last for two and
a half to three hours.
The most popular songs of the past 23 years will be heard and of course many
artists who performed with the band in the past will be present as well as
some surprise guests, who haven’t played with the band in a long time.
The farewell concert will be free for people holding camping
tickets, otherwise day tickets will be half price, which is 6000HUF (2st
April 2010, Budapest).