© Kojima Yasuo © Risenga Makondo © CocoroShunsuke Kimura xEtsuro Ono (Japan)Contact: Mu:ArtsLabel: Medium LabelSotho Sounds (Lesotho)Contact: Bush Tech EntertainmentLabel: unsignedSystema Solar (Colombia)Contact: Evvivashow Ass. Art. CulturaleLabel: Chusma RecordsThe Other Europeans(Moldova/Hungary/Bulgaria/France/UK/USA/Germany)Contact: The Other EuropeansLabel: unsignedArtists A – ZS h o w c a s e sThursday 14:15 Daycase Stage Forum Friday 00:00 Foyer Stage 1Kimura and Ono are virtuoso players of the Tsugarushamisen,a three-stringed plucked lute that hails fromthe Tsugaru region of the north of Honshu island.Originally associated with a storytelling tradition oftenperformed by itinerant blind musicians, the instrument isdistinctive from other shamisen for its thicker strings andthe strongly percussive style with which it’s traditionallyplayed. The duo takes it in new contemporary directions,performing not only the folk song repertoire associatedwith the genre but also original material whichincorporates Western soul and blues rhythms as well asIrish and Scottish airs. At times movingly melancholic andthen furiously funky, augmenting the shamisen with theshinobue flute and various percussion instruments, theycreate a delightfully indefinable international mix thatspeaks many languages with a Japanese accent.www.muarts.org.uk/artists/duo› CD <strong>WOMEX</strong>IMIZER <strong>11</strong>› <strong>WOMEX</strong> <strong>11</strong> Showcase Trailer on www.womex.comShunsuke Kimura shinobue, Tsugaru-shamisenEtsuro Ono Tsugaru-shamisenUsing nothing but throwaway resources and sheerdetermination, Sotho Sounds have shaped their ownform of roots music, creating an inspirational identity thatlanded them a debut tour to Womad UK and Australia in2003. They began building and playing their instruments– carefully crafted from wood, tin, scrap metal, car partsand wire – while working as herd boys in the highlandsof Lesotho, using the solitary hours learning how tomake scrap sing and turning total junk into fantasticfunk. Four-string tin-can guitars, metal one-string fiddlesand oil-barrel drums fuse with soulful vocals, whistles,pumping accordion and stomping gumboot dancing,accompanying their own songs inspired by a varietyof sources: gospel, township jive, hip-hop, reggae andtraditional stories. Support recycling, get down withSotho Sounds!www.sothosounds.org› <strong>WOMEX</strong> <strong>11</strong> Showcase Trailer on www.womex.comKhothatso Pascalis Ranoosi vocals, guitar | Kojoane Joseph Chaka vocals,accordion, one-string fiddle | Tankiso Joseph Pita vocals, bass guitarTseliso Rantho vocals, lead guitar | Paseka Mohale percussion, vocals, danceRisenga Makondo drums, vocalsSponsor: Hope for ChildrenFriday 01:00 Foyer Stage 2Joyful Afronauts of the Caribbean: Systema Solar raps,scratches, and funkifies Colombia’s Technicolor Coast,bringing together the country’s hip-hop and technoscenes and uniting them with Afro-Colombian roots.Built from creaky amps and sleek laptops by some ofColombia’s hottest rappers, techno DJs, percussionists,and video artists, this hard-working collective has beenpicking up awards and touring major festivals and venuesworldwide seemingly non-stop for the last two years.Inspired by the mobile sound systems known as pikosand powered by the celebratory spirit of verbena, whichanimates parties from village to city, they speak out aboutinjustice and call for change with a positive focus that inColumbia has united old folks and young hipsters, metalheads and Latin music lovers into an assault on the samedance floor.www.systemasolar.com› Conference/Session 6› Films/Screenings A – Z: Frekuensia Kolombiana› CD <strong>WOMEX</strong>IMIZER <strong>11</strong>› <strong>WOMEX</strong> <strong>11</strong> Showcase Trailer on www.womex.comAndrew percussion | Corpas DJJohn Primera vocals | Pellegrino DJIndigo vocalsThursday 21:00 Studio 1The Other Europeans was born out of an EU-fundedproject initiated by creator/director Alan Bern to uncoverthe traces of the lost world of the shared musical cultureof the Jews and Roma, who lived, intermarried andplayed music together in pre-WWII Bessarabia. It’s growninto an international super-group of klezmer and lautarvirtuosi, picking up a conversation interrupted 70 yearsago and jogging a faded collective memory into joyousconsciousness. Comprised of two all-star ensembles –Bern and his klezmer ensemble and the lautari band, ledby Hungarian cimbalom master Kálmán Balogh – theymerge the separated strains of historical Yiddish andcontemporary Moldovan styles, reconnecting them andimprovising new ways of keeping the joy alive within arare marriage of ethnography and creativity.www.other-europeans-band.eu› On Location/<strong>WOMEX</strong> Opening› CD <strong>WOMEX</strong>IMIZER <strong>11</strong>› <strong>WOMEX</strong> <strong>11</strong> Showcase Trailer on www.womex.comKálmán Balogh cimbalom | Alan Bern piano, accordionDaniel Blacksberg trombone | Marin Bunea violinMathieu Darriau alto sax, flute, clarinet | Christian Dawid clarinetCsaba Novák bass | Petar Ralchev accordionAdrian Receanu clarinet | Stanislav Rayko violinGuy Schalom percussion | Adam Stinga trumpetPaul Wilk-Brody trumpetArtists A – ZS h o w c a s e s194195
Journey to Korean Music7th-14th Oct 20<strong>11</strong>, KoreaOne-week intensive journey into Korean music“The Fine selection of proposed concerts was of the highest quality,the transfer efficient and swift, the background information given tome was very useful. This all helped me greatly in understanding andappreciating the richness and beauty of Traditional Korean Music.”- Patrick De Groote ( Director of Sfinks Festival, Belgium) -“I knew nothing of Korean music, but this opportunityshowed me a lot about Korean music. Also, I discoveredthe Korean people once again.”- The late Charlie Gillett(BBC World Service, A World of Music Presenter, UK) -Into the light - MUSIC OF KOREAWorldwide promotionof the Korean Traditional performing arts“Korean music comes from another aural universe andsuffers in an environment where you dart from one thing toanother. But stop and listen and it cleanses the soul.”- Simon Broughton, (London Evening standard, U.K ) -The compliations of Korean music“They are not afraid to sing out, to embrace the natural sounds ofthe instrument, of performer and performance – you will hear manyaspects of the personal contact with the instrument: hands, strings,movements, breaths; noises of life becoming an expressive andnatural artistic vocabulary. They are not afraid to take time,air, space. Please join them..”- Ben Mandelson (Creative Director of Into the light -Music of Korea IV, U.K) -www.gokams.or.kr
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