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Bachata Legends Tour
Historic Tour Brings Dominican Musical Legends To The US For The First Time
Following up on the critical success of their dazzling Bachata Roja collection released earlier this year, New York-based indie label iASO records presents The Bachata Legends Tour - which features the U.S. debut of several of the legendary Dominican musicians who appeared on the original album.
Officially billed as The Bachata Roja Legends U.S. Concert Tour: Unsung Heroes, Rediscovered Icons, the event brings together three icons of the Dominican Republic's roots bachata tradition, singers Ramon Cordero, Augusto Santos, "El Chivo Sin Ley" (The Lawless Goat), and guitar giant Edilio Paredes. These pioneering veterans will be joined by emerging bachata star, singer-guitarist, Joan "El Duque" Soriano.
As documented in the critically-acclaimed collection Bachata Roja: Acoustic Bachata from the Cabaret Era, these unsung heroes charted the course of bachata music's rise to international popularity; creating one of the greatest Afro-Caribbean dance styles, while struggling under decades of censorship.
Their romantic, guitar-driven ballads and irresistible dance rhythms represent the roots of today's pop bachata - a multi-million dollar genre that's a staple of contemporary Latin radio and this tour is a unique opportunity to see and hear the originators play this music live.
Tour Dates:
June 26, 6:30 p.m., Chicago's Millennium Park Stage
July 20, 6:30 p.m., Baltimore's Artscape Festival
July 24, 7:30 p.m., Santa Monica's Pier Twilight Dance Series
August 1, 8:00 p.m., New York, Queens Theatre in the Park Latino Cultural Festival
Nat Geo Music TV Debuts In The U.S.
National Geographic Channel launches late night video blocs of modern global music in July.
Nat Geo Music TV has already caused a stir in Europe and Latin America, and now the best in international music video programming is coming home to the U.S.
All this month the National Geographic Channel (NGC) will feature late night blocs of music videos from around the world, every night from 3 am to 6m EST/ 12 am to 3 am PST. These videos will take viewers on an international musical journey, featuring an innovative mix of world music classics and modern global buzz bands, showcasing the groundbreaking international programming of Nat Geo Music TV, a 24/7 satellite music video channel currently available in Europe and Latin American markets.
A perfect alternative for night owls and those inclined to record the programming block on DVR to watch at their leisure, NGC's broadcast of Nat Geo Music will encompass music videos, concerts, interviews and documentaries with a focus on stories that make music a vehicle for a better understanding and appreciation of today's global community. An alternative to the mainstream, Nat Geo Music is progressive and experimental, highlighting ways in which local sounds are evolving to influence artists from different backgrounds and places. Nat Geo Music was launched as a 24-hour music channel in October 2007 to 4.2 million subscribers in Italy, as one of National Geographic Channels International's programming services and has since expanded in Portugal and throughout Latin & South America.
Scheduling blocks include:
PLACE JAM – focusing on music from a specific country
WE LOVE… – dedicated to artists and genres that we love (e.g. We Love Reggae, We Love Caetano Veloso)
MUSIC NOMAD – programming connecting the spirit of traveling to music
GEO SESSIONS – intimate acoustic performances and interviews with top musicians including Ben Harper, K'naan, Michael Franti and Aterciopelados
FUSION – music videos of all genres from around the globe
Orchestra Baobab
Artist Name: Orchestra Baobab
Genre: African Pop, Senegalese Pop
Country: Senegal
Senegal's Orchestra Baobab—formed in 1970 and officially disbanded in 1987—has been riding again since 2001with most of its key players in place. By the end of that year, the musicians had recorded their first new album in more than 20 years.
Baobab started out in post-colonial Senegal's most cosmopolitan milieu. They were chosen as the house band for the then-new Baobab nightclub in central Dakar. Baobab's earliest recordings, available on Baobab-N'Wolof, mostly sound like guitar-driven Afro-Cuban grooves with beautifully elastic Wolof vocals overlaid.
But from the start with Baobab, there were signs of remarkable inventiveness. Baobab's music brimmed with local color and pride in Senegal's emerging national identity, but it differed from the music of contemporaneous bands like Bembeya Jazz in Guinea, or the Super Rail Band in Mali. Baobab certainly waved the Senegalese flag at times, but the group always prided itself on an international identity.
It was back in 1987 that World Circuit's Nick Gold released a set of songs from a particularly rich 1982 Baobab studio session, and called it Pirate's Choice. World Circuit has now repackaged the release with six additional tracks in a new 2-CD edition, as good an introduction to the mature Baobab sound as you will find.
In 2007 Orchestra Baobab released http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/made-in-dakar,a critically acclaimed album of all new, vintage sounding Afropop classics.
No less a figure than Youssou N'Dour has applauded the return of Baobab as a way of helping young Senegalese rediscover pan-Africanism, an interesting reversal of the 1970s notion of using bands to build national identity. Whatever its social merits, reuniting an African dance band after a 20-year hiatus is no easy task. It took the determination of their present manager—British writer Jenny Cathcart—and the support of World Circuit to make it happen. Here's hoping that other moldering maestros in the world's once glorious backwaters will also find angels to rescue them. — Banning Eyre, Courtesy Global Rhythm Magazine: