Yaabafunk, Perunika Trio, Bedoiun Jerry Can Band (+ the Green Note Festival of Latin Music)

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BULGARIANS AND BEDOIUN

LIVE ON STAGE: PERUNIKA TRIO

(sublime Bulgarian a cappella women singers)

+ SPECIAL GUEST: GOMA GHANAEIM

+ other members of BEDOIUN JERRY CAN BAND

(deep roots music from the Sinai Desert)

+ RESIDENT DJ: JAMIE RENTON

@ DARBUCKA

THURSDAY 5TH JUNE 2008, 8PM - 12AM

Chilli Fried, London's leading global beat session, presents the cream of 2 contrasting musical cultures: the rich Bulgarian tradition of unaccompanied women singers represented by the striking, passionate voices of the Perunika Trio and the wild trance inducing sounds of the Sinai Desert provided by special guest Goma Ghanaeim from the acclaimed Bedouin Jerry Can Band.

Eugenia Georgieva, Victoria Mancheva and Victoria Evstatieva, the 3 young women who make up The Perunika Trio met through the London Bulgaria Choir. All are of Macedonian descent and spent their early years in the Bulgaria, but are now based in London. Their debut album Introducing: Perunika Trio (Riverboat) is a journey through the rich musical landscape of Southern Bulgaria: its laments, chants and love songs. Tonight, they'll be bringing this hauntingly beautiful voyage of discovery to life on the stage of Darbucka's beautiful Bedouin basement bar.

Opening the evening will be a special guest spot from Goma Ghanaeim, master of the traditional simsimiyya lute and founder member of The Bedouin Jerry Can Band, who play the deep roots music of the Sinai Desert. Their debut album Coffee Time (30 IPS) caused quite a stir on it's release last year. Tonight Goma will be joined by other members of the group, offering a rare opportunity to catch them in an intimate setting.

All this + resident DJ Jamie Renton spinning global beats and roots rhythms.

Chilli Fried North,

8 PM - 12 AM,

Thursday 5th June 2008 at Darbucka,

182 St John Street,

London, EC1V 4JZ

£5 / £3 concs

020 7490 8772

Nearest Tubes: Farringdon / Angel

http://www.chillifried.com/

www.myspace.com/chillifried

http://www.darbucka.com/

www.myspace.com/perunika

http://www.jerrycanband.com/

The Green Note Festival of Latin Music 2008:

(Tickets available via http://www.wegottickets.com/.

Check out http://www.greennote.co.uk/ for more info)

Friday 13th & Saturday 14th June: QUIMANTU

We launch the festival with a two night residency from one of Europe's most accomplished South American ensembles, led by Chilean virtuoso musician & multi-instrumentalist, Mauricio Venegas-Astorga, who is joined by some of the UK's finest performers. Quimantu present a vibrant repertoire of songs and music drawn from the diverse rhythms, styles and instruments of Latin America, Europe and beyond, brilliantly and effortlessly bringing together a diversity of cultures that blazes with skilful technique, energy, passion, poetry & rhythm.

(£15 adv -N.B. pls specify if it is for the Fri or the Sat night)

Sunday 15th June: REGIONAL BOLA OITO with BOSCO DE OLIVEIRA

An evening of Brazilian roots music: the hippest Samba de Rais (roots samba), burning Samba-Jazz and Chorinho, featuring classic compositions and stories of the masters of Samba from throughout the last century. Presented by renowned percussionist and historian, Bosco De Oliveira.

(£8 adv)

Thursday 19th June: MATICES LATINOS

Matices Latinos is a group dedicated to playing Latin American folk and popular music. They embrace popular musical traditions of countries such as Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Cuba and have an inclination towards rhythms with a strong African presence. In this amazing collaboration, renowned Latin American musicians Luz Elena Caicedo and Wilmer Sifontes will take you on an authentic Latin journey through passion and melancholy with rhythmic and energetic music.

(£8 adv)

Friday 20th June: ANABELLA ZOCH

In her first UK appearance, Argentine singer-songwriter Anabella Zoch, will present songs from her new album "Merece lo que sueñas", a passionate vanguardist take on the roots music of South America; an exciting journey from Zamba to Chacarera, Tango to Waltz. If you like Mercedes Sosa, you'll love Anabella Zoch!

(£8 adv)

Saturday 21st June: FAMILY ATLANTICA

Renowned vocalist and cuatro player, Luzmira Zerpa leads her new ensemble which blends traditional Venezuelan songs with the explosive Afro-Latin percussion of Kwame Owosu, the flute of Jack Yglesias and the celebrated electric guitar of Adrian Owuso. Together, they offer a fresh perspective on the beautiful folk traditions of Venezuela.

(£10 adv)

Sunday 22nd June: MUSIC & POETRY OF THE CHILEAN EXILE

A special programme mixing the New Song & poetry of the Chilean Exile, featuring passionate songstress, Silvia Balducci, and renowned Chilean poet/playwright, Alfredo Cordal. Together, they will explore the work of Pablo Neruda, Violeta Parra and Victor Jara, digging into the roots of Chile and its artistic legacy, and creating a new form of expression with a contemporary appeal and meaning.

(£8 adv)

Thursday 26th June: MAJAGUA

An evening of Latin American Folklore, including Cumbias, Bambucos & Joropos from Colombia & Venezuela; Corridos & Rancheras from Mexico & Valses, Carnavalitos, Guainos y Zambas from Peru, Bolivia & Argentina. Majagua strive to keep true to the traditional sounds and rhythms in which each tune was conceived, but at the same time are open to incorporate new arrangements, giving each melody a personalized and fresh angle.

(£8 adv)

Friday 27th June: GUILLERMO ROZENTHULER & RIOPLATENSES

Innovative vocalist, Guillermo, headlines UK's favourite Argentine folk music ensemble, presenting their new album, "A route to the roots". Groovy Milonga and Candombe, foot-tapping Chacarera and exciting tales from the Rio de la Plata, topped with some Afro and Eastern vibes."...catch a Latin band without a Latin cliché in sight..." (Jazz UK)

(£10 adv)

Saturday 28th June: SONEANDO

Highly danceable Salsa and Cuban Son from this lively band featuring some of London's top Latin musicians. The band is led by pianist, Sara McGuinness, who is well known on the UK Salsa scene and has played and studied Cuba with members of the Buenavista Social Club. The band also features vibrant Cuban vocalists, Jesus Cutiño & Yuri, Elpidio Caicedo on bass, and Roberto Pla and David Pattman on percussion.

(£8 adv)

Thursday 3rd July: VIENTO SUR + DIEGO LAVERDE

Blending an array of styles and music from countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and Bolivia, newly formed trio, Viento Sur, bring together diverse Latin American rhythms, as well as panpipe music from the Bolivian Andes. Support from renowned Colombian harpist, Diego Laverde.

(£8 adv)

Friday 4th July: CALLE LIMON

Contemporary Afro-Peruvian Jazz from London-based quintet. Calle Limón mix classics of Peruvian coastal music with delicate improvisation. The Spanish-Language parallel to Bossa-Nova: gentle, swinging and seductive... A most refreshing, unexpected combination from this beautiful & culturally diverse part of Latin-America.

(£9 adv)

Saturday 5th July: LA XULA

LaXula leads audiences on a journey of wonder and decadence... Songs drift effortlessly from the dusty sun-baked routes of Southern Spain to the pulsing urban vibrancy of the East London underground. There is a plaintive fiesta of influences from Flamenco to Arabic, Tango to Roma, laced with indie-rock psychedelia. Deeply rooted in an ancient feminine spirit, this travelling band of captivating musicians and alluring performers present sensuous and bewitching music, with a remarkable stage presence that brings together neo-burlesque glamour and gypsy defiance.

(£10 adv)

Tickets available via:

http://www.wegottickets.com/

See: http://www.greennote.co.uk/ for more info...