WOMEX 11 Guide

Frente Cumbiero - Photo: Christian HjorthROSKILDE FESTIVAL PRESENTSWORLD MUSIC AWARD AT WOMEXROSKILDE FESTIVAL WORLD MUSIC AWARD WILL BEPRESENTED FOR THE THIRD EXECUTIVE YEAR AT WOMEX 2011.THE € 30,000 AWARD IS PRESENTED TO A SOCIETY OR AN ORGANISATIONTHAT AIMS TO CREATE DEVELOPMENT IN LOCALLY BASED MUSIC GENRESTO ENSURE A STEPPING STONE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE INTHIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. THE PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS ARE DHOWCOUNTRIES MUSIC ACADEMY, ZANZIBAR (2010) AND ROKIA TRAORÉ’SPASSARELLE FOUNDATION, MALI (2009).ROSKILDE FESTIVAL WORLD MUSIC AWARD WILL BE PRESENTED TO THISYEAR’S RECIPIENT SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER AT WOMEX 2011.ALL PROCEEDS FROM ROSKILDE FESTIVAL ARE DONATED IN FULL TOHUMANITARIAN AND CULTURAL PURPOSES.LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL’S CAUSES ATROSKILDE-FESTIVAL.COMSpecial Focus:Nordic ClubThe ever popular Nordic Club is back, offering delegatesa final opportunity to discover the music of our currenthome region in extraordinary variety, before WOMEXmoves on to the next location. This year, we will featurefolk and world artists from Denmark, Norway, Sweden,Finland and Faroe Islands – running all three ShowcaseFestival nights.SponsorsNorway: Music Export NorwayDenmark: World Music DenmarkSweden: Sweden@WOMEXFinland: Finnish Music Information Centre (Fimic)In Partnership withDenmark: World Music DenmarkNorway: Transnational Arts ProductionSweden: The Swedish Folk Music and Dance AssociationFinland: Global Music CentreFunded byThe Nordic Culture Fund© Petri SummanenAlamaailman Vasarat (Finland)Contact, Label: Laskeuma RecordsFriday 21:30 Nordic Club (Studio 4)Finland’s experimental instrumental guerrillasAlamaailman Vasarat (‘The Hammers of the Underworld’)have been cheerfully avoiding any definitivecategorisation of their music for a decade and a half.Traces of tango, klezmer, jazz, psychobilly, cabaret,circus music, progressive avant-garde, heavy trash metaland sinister Finnish melancholia are steamrollered flatinto shiny new roads that lead back to their mythicalhomeland of Vasaraasia, where all this makes perfectsense. Complex arrangements are rattled off withjaw-dropping precision on an armoury of instrumentsincluding multiple brass and reeds, two multi-effectedcellos, pump organ, drums and a rare contrabasssaxophone called tubax. In the course of one piece it’spossible to be reminded of Benny Goodman, a Balkanwedding party, Black Sabbath, Tom and Jerry cartoonsand Frank Zappa, who once famously asked: doeshumour belong in music? Yes it does.www.alamaailmanvasarat.comSpecial Focus: Nordic ClubS h o w c a s e s› CD WOMEXIMIZER 11Jarno Ensio Sarkula soprano sax, tubax | Erno Matias Haukkala tromboneTuukka Valtteri Helminen cello | Miikka Tapani Huttunen keyboardsAntti Santeri Saksala drums | Marko Pekka Manninen cello, theremin201