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Les Nuits de la Bossa Nova in Paris

Celso Fonseca plays this weekend at “Les nuits de la Bossa Nova” festival in Cirque d’ Hiver Bouglione in Paris.

Check the website of Festival d’Ile de France for details and ticket info.

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Bossa Nova Celso Fonseca Tom Jobim Paris Paris Events

KONONO N°1 American Tour Dates

04/11 SEATTLE, WA EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL
06/11 SAN FRANCISCO, CA SF JAZZ FESTIVAL
10/11 MINNEAPOLIS, MN CEDAR CULTURAL CENTRE
11/11 CHICAGO, IL LOGAN SQUARE AUDITORIUM
12/11 COLOMBUS, OH WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
13/11 DAYTON, OH BOLL THEATER
14/11 ANN ARBOR, MI THE ARK
15/11 PITTSBURGH, PA THE WARHOL MUSEUM
16/11 NEW YORK, NY JOE’S PUB
17/11 NEW YORK, NY S.O.B’S
18/11 SOMERVILLE, MA SOMERVILLE THEATER
20/11 PHILADELPHIA, PA WORLD LIVE CAFE

Check the images below fore some steaming live footage from their first European concert in Paris on Sunday, May 29, at a special event organized by daily paper Liberation. Video images by Césarine Bolya.

Congotronics on iTunes
(click here icon for direct Congotronics acces to the iTunes US store )

Technorati tags: Congotronics Konono N°1

Preview of new Bebel Gilberto video

After her successful Brazilian tour, Bebel Gilberto is touring the USA in September. Tour dates here below:

08/09 - SAN DIEGO, CA - HOUSE OF BLUES
09/09 - LOS ANGELES, CA - HOLLYWOOD BOWL
10/09 - LOS ANGELES, CA - HOLLYWOOD BOWL
29/09 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
30/09 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
01/10 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE

Check also the exclusive preview of her new video of the fine remix of Winter by Finland’s Nuspirit Helsinki.

For more details on "Bebel Gilberto Remixed", go to the Crammed website

SETE DO BRAZIL

This real nice and charming review of Cibelle’s performance at the Fiest’à Sète Festival on August 7 describes her as a cross between Beth Gibbons (the voice) and PJ Harvey (the energy)....

Lenine also performed at Sète, and duly invited Cibelle to join him onstage for a duet.

(Pictures © Copyright Patrice Jahanpur)

KONONO Nº1 at Scènes d'été 2005

Last chance also to see the Konono Nº1 band live this summer in France. They play among Mory Kanté, Maraca, Mercan Dede et Frédéric Galliano and the African Divas…, this sunday at Le Parc de la Villette at Scènes d’été 2005

Check also the excellent article on Konono Nº1 in Le Figaro (in French!).

More Tour Dates of Crammed artists at Crammed website.

Konono Nº1 & Swede Swede @ Bozar

Konono N°1 will be topping the bill of a free concert organised by BOZAR (Centre For Fine Arts) in parallel with the exhibition ‘Kinshasa, The Imaginary City’ which won a Golden Lion in Venice this year.

The concert takes place in Brussels on July 21st.

Also on stage: tradi-modern band Swede Swede whose album ‘Toleki Bango’, released by Crammed in 1991, can be considered as numero zero of the Congotronics series.

More KONONO tour dates can be found at Crammed website.

“Congotronics" CD on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)

Interview DJ Dolores on ArteTV

A video interview including live concert excerpts with DJ DOLORES is available on ARTE TV website

DJ Dolores summer tour dates can be found at Crammed website.

“Aparelhagem" CD on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)

Tuxedomoon mini-Tour

Tuxedomoon will perform at the New Atlantis Festival which takes place in Amsterdam from July 4th to 15th (workshops, conferences and small concerts).

Other summer dates here below:

25/06 HOLLAND - AMSTERDAM - TEST PORTAL FESTIVAL
28/06 ITALY - NAPOLI - RISTOFUSION
30/06 ITALY - MESTRE (Venezia) - PARCO SAN GIULIANO
02/07 GREECE - ATHENS - SYNCH FESTIVAL

Cibelle at Montreux Jazz Festival

Cibelle will perform on July 10 at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

The “New Sounds of Brazil” night includes also Seu Jorge and Tom Zé.

More Cibelle tour dates can be found at Crammed website.

“About a Girl” EP on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)

Zuco 103 in Spain

Zuco 103 will present their new album in Sala Apolo in Barcelona tonight.

Tomorrow they will be present at the MetroRock Festival in Madrid.

Check also the fantastic “le cool" magazine to stay updated on interesting stuff happening in Spain.

More Zuco 103 tour dates can be found at Crammed website.

Bossacucanova in Paris

Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal will perform at the Copacabaret Festival in Cabaret Sauvage in Paris. They will perform several gigs between 23/6 and 10/7.

Check for more tour dates at Crammed website

Info on tickets and reservations, you will find here.

Konono in NY Times

Referred to as “Post-Colonial Electronica", Konono keeps surprising. Read the article published yesterday in the New York Times by Andy Pemberton.

But what really makes “Congotronics” (Crammed Discs), the debut album by the African band Konono No. 1, one of the most startling of recent world-music releases - and drawn comparisons to the German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk and the reggae producer Lee Perry - is the amplification system the band has used for the last 30 years.

(...) “Congotronics” was recorded outdoors using an Apple laptop and a handful of microphones, and was mixed in Mr. Kenis’s hotel room with members of the band. It has sold 15,000 copies worldwide, a respectable number for such an esoteric record, and will be released in the United States on June 28; the band has embarked on its first tour of Europe, with the United States to follow in November.

“Congotronics" CD on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)

KONONO N°1 LIVE! (Visas finally granted)

Konono N°1 aficionados across Europe had been holding their breath as the Congolese band waited to be granted their visas. The unexpected, additional 2-week delay unfortunately resulted in the cancellation of all their scheduled appearances alongside Tortoise, who had invited Konono N°1 to share the bill with them on a 10-date European tour.

After many vicissitudes, the visas were finally issued last Friday, and the band has played a steaming, first European concert in Paris on Sunday, May 29, at a special event organized by daily paper Liberation.

Check here fore some steaming live footage from that evening. Video images by Césarine Bolya.

Konono N° 1 are now proceeding with the scheduled summer tour which will take them through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy Portugal etc

For more details check the Live section on the Crammed website

Lee "Scratch" Perry Performs with Zuco 103

Zuco 103 will be presenting their new album “Whaa!” to the French
audience on June 10th at Cabaret Sauvage in Paris.

Legendary dub/reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry (who guests on the
new Zuco 103 album) will be joining them on stage for that special occasion !

Lee “Scratch” Perry appears on “It’s A Woman’s World” and “Love Is
Queen Omega”, two of the tracks on the “Whaa!” album, which he also
co-wrote.

For more Zuco 103 Tour dates info check the Crammed website, Live section.

New Tour Dates added

Check for latest added tour dates and updates on Crammed LIVE website section.

New Tour dates added for DJ Dolores, Cibelle, Konono N°1, Zuco 103, Taraf de Haïdouks, Mahala Rai Banda and Koçani Orkestar