Show your love @ AFROTONIC
There are many ways you can show your love of all people African, shaking your touche to Afro beats is a cheerful option – try it out at AFROTONIC that takes place this Friday at Carfax featuring two of our favourite bands, 340ml and Max Normal as well as the eclectic Zong, all the way from Reunion. Organised by the French Institute as part of their promotion of cultural diversity, urban culture, nd artistic exchanges between South Africa, France and Francophone Africa,
you know it’s going to rock… ALLEZ-Y!!!
AFROTRONIC #1
Friday 30.05.08 @ CARFAX
Featuring
Zong – a Réunion (France)
Max Normal TV – Cape Town (RSA)
340ml – Maputo (Mozambique)
Cooked in the great African Pot with three spoons of hi-voltage electricity, a dozen of the hottest chilies, the juiciest melodic passion fruits and liters of pure sweat:
AFROTRONIC is the new vibrating musical feast proposed by the French Institute of South Africa,
and for its premiere, we picked up nothing but the freshest ingredients:
Hailing from La Réunion, Zong is not just another electro band “with spice”. Indeed, even without electricity, Drean, Costa and Fever remain three accomplished musicians whose “savoir-faire” cannot only be reduced to “Machine-Made Music” and whose three strong personalities locate them far from the anonymous and sometimes dehumanized electro producer profile. If Jane Fonda had had a punk daughter, she would have been something like Drean: sculptural, enigmatically magnetic, dangerously charming, as smooth and burning as a shot of Reunionese Rhum. Playing the Kayamb (a traditional reunionese percussion instrument) with rock’n’roll attitude, Drean is Zong’s singer and muse, and her unique voice can awaken all the senses as well as kick bottom.
By her side: Costa, the melody maker, and Fever, the drum machine.
From his classical piano background, Costa quickly went into the electronic music. From dub to drum’n’bass (his influences go from Lee Scratch Perry to Roni Size), with ecstatic virtuosity, he pushes the limits of his keyboards and machines to a level only his “comrade” Fever can follow.
As soon as he sits behind his drum kit Fever’s cool and almost shy temper turns into a fury. Fascinated by the Punk energy, the unbeatable Drum’n’Bass skips and the accuracy of Jazz drummers, Fever delivers rhythms that make Zong’s sound unique on the global music map: a combo of Dub, Maloya (reunionese traditional sound) Techno and Drum’n’Bass, bridging the gap between “electronic” and “acoustic”, “roots” and “post-modernity”, as on their latest album “Fractures” (to be issued in SA).
Max Normal TV is back!!! And he is also about to release a new album entitled “Good Morning South Africa”:
What could be said that one doesn’t already know about Waddy “Max Normal” Jones?
He’s nuts, he lives in Cape Town, he’s a genius, he’s white, he likes 70’s two-piece grey suits and ties, he’s a serious child, he’s an insolent grownup, he’s violent like a lamb, he’s sweet like a chili, he raps about the real things happening in his normal life, he performs hallucinating shows with his friend Yo-Landi Visser and Neon Don, and another friend, Justin De Nobrega, makes the beats for him. Sometimes he’s dark, sometimes he’s blue, but one thing is sure: Max Normal TV is and always will be here for you!!!!!!!!
340ml will be the third taste of the AFROTRONIC # 1 feast.
Their latest album, “Sorry for the Delay” is about to be released, and a minister’s agenda has been keeping the Maputo boys away from our southern lands as by now threefourtymil’ has also become European’s favorite. But when they don’t run around the world and/or collaborate on diverse originals projects (Tumi and the Volume, the Dub Vaults compilations, the Dubstars clothing range, among others), Pedro Da Silva Pinto, Rui Soeiro, Paulo Chibanga and Tiago Paulo are at home in Jozi to brew their elaborate laid-back Fusion cocktails of fresh energizing tropical ingredients with electric spices.
AFROTRONIC #1
Friday 30 May 2008
Zong
340ml
Max Normal.tv
@ Carfax, 39 Gwi Gwi Mrwebi Street, Newtown
Doors open at 8pm
Tickets at the door: R80
