Posts Tagged ‘Kuduro’

BEFORE KUDURO

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
before-kuduro

We all love Kuduro and other music coming out of booming Angola these days, but little is known about the decades before Kuduro emerged. The following BBC documentary gives a brief introduction to the first years of Angolan independence – marked by a bloody, civil war, that was shaped by Cold War politics. After seeing this documentary you may hear Batida´s “Bazuka”, in which Angolan civil war veterans talk about their lifes during wartime, with different ears.


BURAKA SOM SISTEMA GERMANY TOUR

Sunday, February 15th, 2009
buraka-som-sistema-germany-tour

Kuduro kings Buraka Som Sistema will tour Germany in the coming week on a four city tour. I´ll warm up for them throughout the dates, so you get a baile-kuduro-booty triple whammy live and direct all for less than 15 €. Cologne on Carneval´s Sunday should be the craziest. I played Stadtgarten last year the same day with MC Gringo and it was nuts. I´ll post a tour diary from on the road.

For all of you who won´t make it to any of the dates, I have a special tune from Angola´s kuduro don DJ Znobia for you. Znobia´s been a major inspiration for Buraka Som Sistema, which can be told from his answer version to “A Bit Patchy” by Switch:
A BIT PATCHY – DJ ZNOBIA REMIX