WOMEX 15 Budapest - Day 3

• 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
  Cinema, Lecture Hall, Müpa Budapest
  

  The Dream of Shahrazad, Francois Verster

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• 9 pm - 9:45 pm
  Twin stage A, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
  

  Ana Tijoux (Chile/France)

Chile's foremost female MC and people's poet, pushing the hip-hop envelope by returning to her roots.
Meet Latin America's foremost female MC, uncolonizing the culture with her constantly evolving, politically engaged mix, equally inspired by classic hip-hop, the great South American songwriters and deep Latin roots. Born in France during her parents' political exile from Pinochet's dictatorship, Ana Tijoux returned to Chile in 1993 and by the end of the decade she'd found fame with the widely successful hip-hop group, Makiza. After they split she scored mainstream Latin-pop success with her collaboration with Mexican songstress, Julieta Venegas. Since 2009 she's released three Latin Grammy nominated solo albums, gained international attention with her rapidly viralling video for her song about the student protest movement in Chile, Shock, and picked up a Latin Grammy in 2014 for her collaboration with Jorge Drexler. Passionate, committed, a poet of the heart. There's more to come.

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• 9 pm - 9:45 pm
  Club Duna stage, Festival Theatre, Müpa Budapest
  

  Damir Imamović Sevdah Takht (Bosnia and Herzegovina/ Croatia/Serbia)

'Damir Imamovic's music is a new step in the development of the tradition of sevdah. Born in 1978 in Sarajevo in a family of the legendary sevdah masters Zaim Imamovic and Nedzad Imamovic, Damir started learning about the aesthetics of this traditional art as a child. In 2005 he began performing solo after which he started his first Trio that recorded two noted CDs. Performances follow, among others with Bojan Z, Eric Vloeimans, Jadranka Stojakovic, recordings with Vlatko Stefanovski, Hüsnü Senlendirici, Frenkie and concerts in prestigious concert halls around the world. After two CDs solo, Damir records again in 2012 with his critically acclaimed 'Sevdah Takht' (with Nenad Kovazic and Ivan Mihajlovic). Marina Andree did a documentary 'Sevdah' (2008) on Damir's work and philosophy of sevdah. Damir also works as a researcher and educator with his program of lectures and workshops 'SevdahLab'. His second CD with Sevdah Takht is due to appear on Glitterbeat Records in 2016.

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• 9:30 pm - 10:15 pm
  WOMEX stage, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest
  

  Baraji (South Korea)

Korean classical ensemble bringing ancient shamanistic ritual music to the stage with contemporary verve.
Baraji is a pure Korean word that describes compassionate care given with unconditional support. In Korean traditional music, baraji refers to the impromptu harmony singing by accompanists that enhances the colours of the music. The character of baraji is epitomized in Jindo Ssitgim Gut, a traditional shamanistic purging ritual for the dead where singing and dancing conjoin with prayers for their peaceful rest. The Baraji music group's mission is to pay homage to this still existing ancient tradition and to share the beauty of its music with the world, bringing it together with elements from various styles of traditional Korean music performed on classic instruments such as piri, gayageum, hayageum and daegeum. In Jindo Ssitgim Gut, mourning is subsumed by the belief that death is not the end; life goes on and must be celebrated!

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• 9:45 pm - 10:30 pm
  Twin stage B, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
  

  Mamar Kassey (Niger)

Niger's master singer leading famed ensemble in irresistibly intricate Songhai-Sahara legacy revitalization.
The warm, lived-in voice of Yacouba Moumouni soars gracefully above the rolling rhythms woven by the band; 3-string molo lute, calabasse and kalangou drum effortlessly interleave with electric guitar and bass, the female chorus responds, Yacouba picks up his flute and leads everyone to the banks of the Niger. The band Mamar Kassey - named after the ancestor who extended the Songhai empire into the Sahara - was formed in 1995 by Yacouba Moumouni (aka Denké Denké), becoming popular throughout West Africa, while their 2002 album, Alatoumi, brought international attention. Yacouba put the band on hold to travel to France and work with Breton flautist Jean-Luc Thomas, returning to Niger in 2008 to form a revitalized Mamar Kassey. Wassalou and Saharan influences merge at the borders between the ancestral hogon masters and the interconnected now.

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• 9:45 pm - 10:30 pm
  offWOMEX stage, Atrium, Müpa Budapest
  

  Canteca de Macao (Spain)

After celebrating last year their 10º anniversary, Canteca de Macao will present their new album 'Lugares Counes' after the summer. As ever, they present a mix of styles: flamenco, rumba jazz, even ska and reggae, to new effect: this their most personal and intimate album of their career. After 12 years of success with diverse audiences and playing big festivals, the band give a twist to theit sound venturing into more intimate territories and more acoustic sounds.

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• 10:30 pm - 11:15 pm
  Twin stage A, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
  

  Tamer Abu Ghazaleh (Palestine)

Tireless Palestinian multi-instrumentalist, performer, producer, composer, presents new pan-Arabic ensemble project.
A restless and inventive performer and promoter of a wide range of music and artistic activity, Palestinian singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, is a leading figure in modern Arabic culture. Born in Cairo in 1986 to an exiled Palestinian family who returned to live in Ramallah in 1998 where he started his academic music education at the National Conservatory of Music, studying oud, buzuq, music theory, composition, orchestration and performance, under renowned Palestinian musician, Khaled Jubran. His 2008 debut album, Mir'ah (Mirror), expressed the everyday surrealities of Palestinian life under curfew, bombardment and invasion. Since then he has toured his own music through Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, collaborated on many Palestinian and Egyptian music and theatre projects and is currently one of the key members of the new pan-Arabic Alif Ensemble.

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• 10:30 pm - 11:15 pm
  Club Duna stage, Festival Theatre, Müpa Budapest
  

  Ági Herczku & Band (Hungary)

Ági Herczku is the best known folk-ethno singer in Hungary. Talented and ambitious with an incredible stage presence and charisma she became the principal soloist of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and has been experimenting with different musical styles merging traditional East-European tunes with classical, contemporary, Irish and Balkans for a long time. Owner of the 'Best world- music album of the year 2011' price in Hungary, Ági has just released her new album 'Bandázom' which was reviewed in SONGLINES MAGAZIN and one of its tracks: 'Gyimesi Karszilamasz' was chosen into the compilation album of SONGLINES. 'Bandázom' reached quickly 10th place on World Music Charts Europe in March 2015.

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• 11 pm - 11:45 pm
  WOMEX stage, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest
  

  Wu Man (China/USA)

Foremost pipa virtuoso giving ancient instrument a new role in both traditional and contemporary music.
Widely recognized as the world's premier pipa virtuoso and a leading ambassador of Chinese music, Wu Man has carved out a career as a soloist, educator and composer, giving her lute-like instrument - which has a history of over 2,000 years in China - a new role in both traditional and contemporary music. In concert halls around the world Wu Man has premiered hundreds of new works for the pipa, while spearheading multimedia projects to both preserve and create awareness of China's ancient musical traditions. She performs regularly with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, and in chamber groups and orchestras giving the premieres of works by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Chen Yi, and Bright Sheng, who have written pipa parts into their works with her sound and dexterity in mind.

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• 11:15 pm - 12 am
  Twin stage B, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
  

  Tritha Electric (India/France)

Indian classical music singer embraces psychedelic punk-rock to further awareness of social issues.
Tritha Electric inhabit the space where psychedelic punk-rock meets Indian classical and folk music to sing about women's empowerment against social oppression, sexual exploitation and domestic violence; the environment and political corruption and other issues that Tritha Sinha feels should be given greater exposure in the media. Tritha trained as a classical Indian singer from the age of five but as a young woman becoming politically engaged she felt she needed to make music that tackled contemporary issues head on. Tritha Electric was formed in 2010 with a trio of French musicians and she's been gaining attention ever since, both for her music and its subject matter, with performances in India, France, Malaysia, Italy, Germany and Madagascar and articles about her social activism in the pages of Marie Claire and the Hindustan Times.

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• 11:15 pm - 12 am
  offWOMEX stage, Atrium, Müpa Budapest
  

  Javier Paxariño Trio (Spain)

Javier Paxariño is considered one of the best saxophonists in Spain. He is undoubtedly credited as one of the great fusion pioneers in Spain who combines musical traditions with the usage of original instruments from various cultures. His charismatic on-stage performances, replete with indelible solos and tasteful accompaniment, never fail to demonstrate his fluency in diverse musical tongues and confirm his reputation of being one of the most complete artists in Spain.

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• 12 am - 0:45 am
  Twin stage A, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
  

  Alo Wala (Denmark/Norway/USA)

International posse pushing positive messages with ground-breaking psychedelic tropical beats and ground-shaking bass.
Alo Wala is an international collaboration that epitomises the new world-wide, socially conscious, dancehall and hip-hop culture. Up front is Chicago-born Punjabi rapper Shivani Ahlowalia, whose commitment to political change through positive means took shape while living in Guinea-Bissau. Realising the power that hip-hop bands had to unite local youth against injustice and political turmoil, she co-founded an NGO and set up a recording studio. Political events forced her exit to Copenhagen where she connected with Danish production duo Copia Doble Systema and VJ Mad Es to form Alo Wala, bringing into being a visually charged electronic extravaganza of twisting riddims, beats and bass lines from Brazil to Bengal, reflecting their fascination with "music made on other planets, social injustice on our own planet and the injection of ground shaking bass into any style possible”.

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• 12 am - 0:45 am
  Club Duna stage, Festival Theatre, Müpa Budapest
  

  Muzykanci (Poland)

Polish ethno quartet co-created by charismatic artists of Polish ethno scene, among others: singer and violinist Joanna Slowinska and singer and multiinstrumentalist Jacek Halas. The group - one of the most creative at the Polish folk music scene - is appreciated as well by critics as audiences. The winners of many prestigious awards, including the Grand Prix competition of the Polish Radio New Tradition Festival, Grand Prix Euro Folk Festival. Their debut album 'Muzykanci' was awarded the Folk Phonogram of the Year, and (in 2012) - in a plebiscite organized by the Polish Radio has been also chosen the best folk album of all nominees and award-winning of Polish Radio competition for the Folk Phonogram of the Year. Muzykanci toured the Polish and European scenes. Muzykanci have had numerous recordings for Polish Radio, Polish TV and other European broadcasters. Repertoire of the Muzykanci based on traditional songs and tunes from almost all regions of Poland as well the tradition of Jewish, Gypsy and Lemko music. New energy of Polish and Middle European music traditions.

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• 0:30 am - 1:15 am
  WOMEX stage, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest
  

  Forabandit (Turkey/France)

Occitan and Anatolian troubadour traditions meet and intertwine in mutually enhancing Mediterranean voyage.
Forabandit's founding idea was to link the music and poetry of the great traditions of itinerant Occitan and Anatolian asik troubadours. It came out of the meeting between Occitan singer and mandol player Sam Karpienia and Turkish singer and saz player Ulaş Özdemir, each finding a mutual resonance in their respective music traditions and the struggle for identity survival and soulful celebration that both inherently express. Karpienia's powerful, insistent voice contrasts and complements the warm, intimate tones of Özdemir, while the cross-Mediterranean rhythms are expertly underpinned by Bijan Chemirani's dexterous Persian percussion. The songs on their 2014 album, Port, thematised the connections between Marseilles and Istanbul, inspired by the poetry of Baudelaire and Khayyam, creating an original intertwining of roots music, delivered with a wide-screen sense of space and dynamic, infused with a contemporary energy.

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• 0:45 am - 1:30 am
  Twin stage B, WOMEX Tent, Müpa Budapest
  

  Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana)

Highlife legend dubbed the Golden Voice of Africa celebrating five decades of high-level music-making.
Highlife never dies; its fortunes rise and fall but it just keeps getting better. Likewise Pat Thomas, one of Ghana's great voices and global profile-raiser for highlife music. He's been a major figure in Ghanaian music for almost five decades, known for his many collaborations with highlife bandleader/guitarist/arranger Ebo Taylor, as well as multiple successes under his own name. 2015 finds him in formidable form with a new album. Recorded in Accra it features Ebo Taylor and Afro-beat drumming legend, Tony Allen, with an elite team of younger players assembled by multi-instrumentalist Kwame Yeboah. Comprising old and new Thomas songs, it stands as a defining bridge between the highlife generations and between the classic highlife from 1978 - effectively killed off by the Rawlings dictatorship - and its resurgence over the past decades.

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• 0:45 am - 1:30 am
  offWOMEX stage, Atrium, Müpa Budapest
  

  Leandro Fregonesi (Brasil)

Singer and composer, Leandro Fregonesi is one of those great artist of the Brazilian Samba's New Generation. He has been composing since he was sixteen. Leandro is 34 years old and accumulates more than 400 songs, around 60 of them already recorded by several important Brazilian artists, like Maria Bethânia, Beth Carvalho and others. He wrote the Brazilian Soccer Championship Official Theme 2013 and 2014 for the broadcasters SPORTV and PREMIERE FC.

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• 1 am - 2:30 am
  DJ Summit, A38
  

  Esta Polyesta (The Netherands)

Amsterdam-based Esta Polyesta is a DJ on a mission to bring world music to the clubs and festivals by mixing ethnic, acoustic sounds with electronic beats, spicing up dance music with samples of global instruments and vocal sounds from her massive music library that she's amassed in her ten years of performing and party-making from Holland, across Europe from Portugal to Greece and beyond to India, Israel and Morocco. Cumbia, Desi Beats, Latin percussion, Afrotronic, Balkan Beat, Tribal, Mestizo, Flamenco, Bellydance, Oriental House, Afro Disco, Electronic Tango, Reggae, Afrobeat, Klezmer, Electro Swing are all part of her feel-good mix. Esta Polyesta says: "The world is my playground and music is the language”. Take a world tour, no passport or visa required.

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• 2:30 am - 3:30 am
  DJ Summit, A38
  

  Rocky Marsiano (Portugal)

Rocky Marsiano's masterful mixes of classic Brazilian and African Lusophone sounds place the spotlight on the sparkling rhythms and acoustic sounds of their source material, subtly mixed with electronics to create an innovative dance music soundscape. Rocky Marsiano is the instrumental/beats project of Portuguese producer, D-Mars. First breaking through in 2005 with his jazz influenced debut album, The Pyramid Sessions, he further explored jazz fusion on his next two albums, adding elements of soul-funk and Brazilian music. The fourth album, Music For All Seasons, was produced in Amsterdam, where D-Mars is now living, and is a tribute to his Rio-raised mother's Brazilian records. The latest release, Meu Kamba, was lovingly assembled with samples from a collection of classic vinyl records from Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique and Sao Tomé.

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• 3:30 am - 4:30 am
  DJ Summit, A38
  

  Chancha via Circuito (Argentina)

Argentinian producer Pedro Canale, aka Chancha via Circuito, came up through Buenos Aires's famed digital cumbia scene before breaking beyond those boundaries to forge unprecedented mergers between Brazilian rhythms, Paraguyan harp, Andean mysticism and Argentinian folklore - all processed through his own futuristic strain of post-dubstep. He is both a cult artist within micro-circles of electronic music - invited to perform at Montreal's forward-focused MUTEK festival - and a crowd-pleasing sound artist, pumping up festival crowds at Roskilde and Vive Latino. A track from his 2011 album, Rio Arriba, was prominently featured in the soundtrack to Breaking Bad. The album's international success led to remix commissions from Gilles Peterson, The Ruby Suns and Gotan Project. With his third album release, Amansara, Pedro Canale continues to create a new digital dance-floor folklore for the future.

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• 21-25 October
  Müpa Budapest
  

  WOMEX - Instrument exhibition

Presented by: Hangvető, Müpa