[FA Worldmusic] WOMEX and free Amina concert at Joe's Pub tonight

[neal copperman - AMP Concerts]

Next time, leave your bags at home Bill!  Speaking of Bills, did Bill 
Smith get home?  I ran into him on Monday in the Madrid airport, 
where he wasn't having any luck getting on a flight after missing his 
connection on Sunday.  Hope you made it home Bill!

Can someone post what the actual showcase schedules ended up being. 
With cancellations and changes, I was never always sure who I was 
seeing.

Things I particularly liked:

El Tanbura
It felt like a small Egyptian village dropped onto the stage.

Orange Blossom (Algeria/Mexico/France)
All subtlety (assuming there is any) was lost in the airplane hangar, 
but it certainly packed a wallop.  Dead Can Dance meets Afro Celts, 
Nine Inch Nails and My Bloody Valentine.  Sometime beautiful, 
sometimes overpowering (yet still beautiful) sheets of noise.

Tcheka (Cape Verde)
I hadn't heard male Cape Verdean singing before, and it was just as 
mournful and beautiful as the women.

Juan Carlos Caceres (Argentina)
Tango maestro with a cool band and great arrangements.  He sang, 
played piano and trombone.  The almost Tom Waitsian elements of the 
CD weren't so evident live, but it still sounded great.

Aynur (Turkey)
Classy and powerful.  Totally kept the audience captiviated.

I was already a fan of Niyaz, who certainly shouldn't have been 
playing in the hangar.  They were really hurt by the sound and 
setting.   They would have done so much better in the theater.

neal

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At 1:41 PM -0500 10/31/06, Bill Bragin wrote:
>(Sorry - finger slipped before I finished typing...)
>
>Just making it back into the office, and yes, my bag finally arrived when I
>landed in JFK, so I'm no longer wearing that pink shirt...
>
>Would love to get people's impressions of WOMEX this year.  We all should talk
>about how to approcah them collectively about the horrific sound at the
>showcases, but leaving that aside for teh moment - does anyone want to comment
>about interesting panels, new artist discoveries, key issues discussed etc?
>
>Also, for those in NY, wanted to let you know that due to visa issues,
>tonight's concert with the Icelandic group Amina, who toured with Sigur Ros
>and played Bang on A Can Marathon this year, is now free admission for
>everyone.
>
>AMINA
>HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION
>
>
>Tuesday October 31
>11:45 PM
>FREE - First Come, First Served at the Door
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>http://www.aminamusik.com/
>
>Amina is a string quartet comprising four icelandic young women, founded in
>the summer of 1998. who met while attending the music school of reykjavmk.
>Though trained classically, amina started doing lots of studio work with all
>kinds of pop and rock bands because there weren't many string groups taking on
>that sort of flexible and time-consuming work. In 1999 when Sigur Ros needed
>string players for a album release concert because the album had had an octet
>perfroming on it, Amina was called and have been touring with Sigur Ros ever
>since which has organically lead and influenced Amina to perform less
>classically by not over analyzing and over arranging tand to simply perform
>music of pure atmosphere and spontaneity.
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>All the best,
>
>Bill Bragin
>Director of Joe's Pub
>The Public Theater
>425 Lafayette Street
>New York, NY  10003
>
>t/ 212.539.8512
>f/ 212.539.8505
>e/ bbragin at publictheater.org
>www.joespub.com
>Wanna be our Friend?  www.myspace.com/joespubatthepublic
>
>
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>more beautifully,
>more devotedly than ever before."
>
>Leonard Bernstein
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