world music, jazz, popular music
WOMEX 15 Budapest - Day 2
23 October 2015, Friday
5:30 pm - 1:30 am
WOMEX 15 Budapest
WOMEX 15 Budapest - Day 2
- 7:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Cinema, Lecture Hall, Müpa Budapest
They Will Have to Kill Us First, Johanna Schwartz
- 9 pm - 9:45 pm
Twin stage A, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
Emicida (Brazil)
It seems that Emicida has been rapping and rhyming all his life. Growing up in Sao Paolo, listening to hip-hop, appropriating English lyrics and then getting down to expressing his own style in Portugese, he gradually became a fixture on the city's underground scene and then nationally with his 2008 single Triunfo. As the word spread and the mixes started viralling, he began breaking internationally, getting invited to the 2011 Coachella Festival in California, the first Brazilian rapper to perform there. Sojourns in New York, Montreux, Berlin and London followed and in 2013 he released his groundbreaking debut album, O Glorioso Retorno de Quem Nunca Esteve Aqui (The glorious return of one who was never here), a percussion-driven slice of Emicida rap philosophy mixing samba, soul and Brazilian funk.
- 9 pm - 9:45 pm
Club Duna stage, Festival Theatre, Müpa Budapest
Buda Folk Band (Hungary)
The stimulating effect of home rehearsals and regular field work accompanied their teenage years and later they refined their skills in folk music schools under the direction of Muzsikas Ensemble. Vibrating at the heart of their sound is the pulse of authentic Hungarian folk music, now interwoven with musical phrases and stylistic elements drawn from elsewhere - outside influences which affect, or can affect those living in big cities far from the birthplace of folk music. Buda Folk performs authentic Hungarian folkloric tunes tailored for urban ears, and they do a fine job of updating the tunes for the present day without losing track of the origins of the music. In 2014 January their second album 'Magyar világi népzene' clinched second place in the World Music Charts Europe.
- 9:30 pm - 10:15 pm
WOMEX stage, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest
Bella Hardy (UK)
Over the last decade, in her own quiet way, Bella Hardy has become a major figure on the flourishing UK folk scene. Her prolific output has created an impressive body of work, interpreting and reworking traditional songs as well as crafting her own compositions steeped in the folk ballads she loved as a child growing up in England's Peak District. She has collaborated in projects with folk-luminaries such as Martin Simpson, Jim Moray and Eliza Carthy, and her creative trajectory continues upward as the scope of her music widens. On her latest album, With The Dawn, her sixth under her own name, she presents a bravely personal diary of her 30th year; songs written on the road, set in imaginative arrangements that maintain the connection with her traditional roots. British contemporary songwriting at its finest.
- 9:45 pm - 10:30 pm
Twin stage B, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
Rancho Aparte Chirimia (Colombia)
The Columbian Pacific coast region is home to a startling variety of music styles and dance forms, some of which have been making significant inroads into the consciousness of music lovers around the globe over the last few years. Rancho Aparte Chirimia specialize in the sounds of abozaos, polkas, danzas, rebulú, jugas and contradanzas; styles which can variously trace roots back to Central European polkas, French quadrilles and English country-dancing, all appropriated and marinated for centuries in Afro-Columbian rhythms. The band have regenerated these forms, blowing the dust off their unfashionable folkloric image amongst a younger audience. With a battery of percussion, looping clarinets and bottom-line from a bombardino (baritone euphonium) underpinning animated singing and chorus, Rancho Aparte Chirimia celebrate a fascinating cross-cultural tradition with uncompromising energy, exploring universal roots with irresistible dance-inducing relish.
- 9:45 pm - 10:30 pm
offWOMEX stage, Atrium, Müpa Budapest
Cucurucho (Kuba)
Even influenced by his family jazz tradition, Cucurucho had big interest in danceable music, ending up in finest Cuban salsa orchestras like Charanga Habanera or Isaac Delgado. In 2001 he was invited to join Grammy winning band Los Van Van as substitute of world famous Pupy Pedroso. Till he left in 2014, Cucurucho turned in a fundamental musician of the orchestra, as composer and arranger. His own project presents Cucurucho passion for Cuban traditional music, showing up some great talents and well known performers like the voice of his aunt Mayra Valdés, Chucho's sister. All own compositions that combine perfectly old school Cuban piano tradition with a fresh, powerful and unique style of a interpretation, used to perfoming hundreds of concerts for huge dancing audiences all over the world. At Miami Arena, Roundhouse London or venues from Opera Sydney to Hollywood Bowl, or in front of over one million listeners at the Peace Concert in Havana 2009.
- 10:30 pm - 11:15 pm
Twin stage A, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
A-Wa (Israel)
A-Wa! That's an Arabic expression of positive affirmation, and also the moniker and attitude adopted by Tair, Liron and Tagel Haim, three sisters from a remote Yemenite Jewish community in Southern Israel. With a collective voice that only singing siblings can usually achieve, A-Wa have hip-hopped over musical, geographical and social barriers to rack up over a million and still counting views of their video for Habib Galbi, the title track of their album of reworkings of vintage Yemeni-Arabic women's songs, produced by Tomer Yosef of Balkan Beat Box, whose sparkling dance-floor grooves provide the perfect bed for the sisters' scintillating harmonies, eclectically influenced by a range of sources from Yemenite traditional songs through Greek music, reggae, hip-hop, jazz and Egyptian film music to the singing of The Andrews Sisters. Just say A-Wa!
- 10:30 pm - 11:15 pm
Club Duna stage, Festival Theatre, Müpa Budapest
PaCoRa (Slovakia)
- 11 pm - 11:45 pm
WOMEX stage, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest
Iberi (Georgia)
Majestic, mellifluous, entrancing and rousing, Georgian polyphonic choir singing encompasses the emotions, able to soothe and to stir, through the power of the human voice, irrespective of whether the language is understood or not. Iberi are arguably the finest contemporary exponents of the art. Their repertoire draws on songs from all the culturally diverse regions of Georgia, including very rare songs from the pagan era, as well as urban and sacred songs. The choir was founded in 2012 by singer Buba Murgulia. A former member of the State Ensemble for Song and Dance in the 90s, he has worked with Georgian fusion band, The Shin, and ethno-jazz group, Iriao. Iberi's mission is to further awareness and enjoyment of the rich diversity of Georgian folklore, bringing the beauty of polyphonic singing to the world.
- 11:15 pm - 12 am
Twin stage B, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
Moh ! Kouyate (Guinea/France)
Moh! Kouyate grew up immersed in the dynastic griot traditions of his family. As a young man he soaked up the sounds of the masters of Guinean music such as Bembaya Jazz leader Sekou "Diamond Fingers” Kouyaté and Salif Keita's guitarist Ousmane Kouyaté. He was garnering a reputation as an up-and-coming guitarist when he heard a George Benson album, which set him off on a journey of discovery of guitar greats like Django Reinhardt, BB King and Jimi Hendrix; influences he incorporated in his own band, Conakry Cocktail. In 2007, frustrated by lack of opportunity, he moved to Paris, formed a quartet and began composing his first album, Loundo, a rich blend of his influences, where West Africa meets the Mississippi Delta, Afro-beat meets funky jazz and Moh! meets an international audience.
- 11:15 pm - 12 am
offWOMEX stage, Atrium, Müpa Budapest
Kachimba4 (Japan)
Kachimba4 take Cuban salsa and Okinawan minyo folk music, throw in some Spanish and Brazilian flavours and energetically mix it into an amazingly homogeneous and infectiously entertaining cocktail. See it and believe.
- 12 am - 0:45 am
Twin stage A, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
Zoufris Maracas (France)
After years of not trying, Zoufris Maracas are beginning to break through. If that sounds like a non sequitur, you haven't seen them at work, or rather, not at work. At least, in their search for authenticity they claim to avoid rehearsals, shun presentation, staging and any form of deliberate personality creation. You may wonder how they manage to craft their languidly exuberant pastiche of manouche, morna, Mexican cumbia and African rumba sounds with wry themes considering heartbreak, hypocracy, nanotechnology and our ridiculous reality, delivered by singer Vincent Sanchez in a warmly bemused voice dripping with the influence of Brel and Brassens. Apparently it started about ten years ago when an out-of-work Greenpeace street recruiter (Sanchez) with an empty fridge wrote a silly song that made his friends laugh. The rest will someday be history.
- 12 am - 0:45 am
Club Duna stage, Festival Theatre, Müpa Budapest
Clarinet Factory (Czech Republic)
- 0:30 am - 1:15 am
WOMEX stage, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest
Karolina Cicha & Bart Pałyga (Poland)
Karolina Cicha is a singer, songwriter and one-woman orchestra, playing many instruments at once and using vocal techniques she invented herself. She hails from Bialystock in the Podlasie region of north-east Poland, a culturally and ethnically diverse area and historical borderland between east and west. Her latest album, 9 Languages, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Bart Palyga, contains songs composed by Cicha to lyrics written in the languages of the ethnic minorities of Podlasie: Tatar, Roma, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish and Polish as well as Esperanto, whose inventor Ludwik Zamenhof was born in Bialystock. The result is a modern mix of styles on which the two protagonists give full reign to their creative talents on an array of instruments including cello, morin khuur, dutar, jew's-harp, duduk, accordion, pipe, mandola, as well as samplers and loopers.
- 0:45 am - 1:30 am
Twin stage B, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
Chouk Bwa Libète (Haiti)
Chouk Bwa Libète is a traditional Haitian Mizik Rasin group comprising the essential elements of Haitian Vodou: percussion, singing and dance with deep roots in the religious rites of West African Vodun. Their repertoire blends traditional songs with compositions by vocalist and poet Jean-Claude 'Sambaton' Dorvil. The drummers are unanimously recognized in the Vodou triangle of Badio-Souvenance-Soukri as masters of the art with the official title of amiral. The ensemble's debut album for Buda Musique was recorded in April 2014 under the cover of an ajoupa open to the winds in the village of Petite Rivière Bayonnais in the Vodou heartland of Gonaives, where the members all live and work. This summer the celebratory power of their sound ignited audiences at a number of European festivals including Roskilde and Amsterdam Roots.
- 0:45 am - 1:30 am
offWOMEX stage, Atrium, Müpa Budapest
Alicia Jaggasar and Los Alumnos de San Juan (Trinidad and Tobago)
Their music is led by a Soprano Steelpan and manifest the best blend of traditional string instruments the guitar, the cuatro, and one string box bass. This with a driving polyrhythm section that consists of the Maracas, Clave, Congas and scratcher produces a dynamic sound that evokes the dance. The band has represented the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago as bearers of its Hispanic Heritage in Puerto Rico, Panama and Cuba, and have rooted their name in the Parang history of Trinidad and among the diaspora globally.
- 1 am - 2:30 am
DJ Summit, A38
Bazaar Kings (Hungary)
- 2:30 am - 3:30 am
DJ Summit, A38
Chico Correa (Brasil)
- 21-25 October
Müpa Budapest
WOMEX - Instrument exhibition
Presented by: Hangvető, Müpa
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