Hot Eve at La Bellevilloise!

Tonight, June 15th, was the end of 'Paris Onze Bouge' Festival...
[Paris 11 or Paris onze, gives 'on se bouge', for let's move, let's swing... In short,
let's say Swinging Eleven !


FireTongue featured at La Bellevilloise tonight with 9 other
very good musicians and... the whole concert was like a hellish
ride on a motor unit, with the brass section embroidering their
phrases around the leading beat which rumbled through your
stomach from the beginning until the end !

Unfortunately, no one seems to have published a video of the performance, nor did I
because of memory card problems... but the atmosphere is the same in the following
videos. Enjoy it.



More on Charles Delangue: AfroBeat/Swing and Spiritual Beats, and for a good info
page, go to African Path.
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in a whirl outside !
... just before the concert.


and...

'La Bellevilloise' in a picture dated 1910... and NOW
[click to see the diffrent parts].
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Suffering and Smiling... the Movie

Dan Ollman, Nigeria/US 2006, video doc 65mn
A Bluemark Production

Human Rights Watch

Focusing on the legendary African singer and activist Fela
Anikulapo Kuti and his son Femi, Suffering and Smiling
depicts the impact of their politically charged music. Following Nigeria’s independence
in 1960, Fela used his songs to speak out against the country’s corrupt leaders.
Since independence the military and political elite have enriched themselves by allowing
Nigeria’s oil and natural resources to be stripped by multinational corporations with little
benefit to ordinary Nigerians. Fela gave voice to Nigeria’s disenfranchised underclass
and sang of a free and united Africa. Upon his death in 1997, Femi has continued his
father’s legacy. Equally passionate and charismatic, he sings about the dire situation
in his country, asks why the world’s most resource – rich continent has the poorest
people, and struggles to maintain a vision of better days ahead for the common people
of Nigeria.

(moffice61)
"Music is The Weapon of the Future" (Fela)

Tony Allen à La BelleVilloise!

19, rue Boyer /20e - Info@labellevilloise.com - Tél 01 46 36 07 07

Born in Nigeria in 1940 of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen is perhaps the most
highly-regarded African drum set player to emerge since World War II. Drimmers and other musicians
of all backgrounds marvel at his uniquely polyrhythmic style. Allen belongs on one hand to a tradition
of African drum set playing associated with the Gahanian drummer Kofi Ghanaba (Guy Warren) and
historically rooted ib British military drumming, European ballroom dance music, bigband jazz drumming
and indigenous percussion traditions. However, he is also an African exponent of the African-American
tradition of modern jazz drumming typified by musicians such as Art Blakey, Elvin Jones and Max Roach.
(Michael E. Veal)

Tony Allen / DoctorL - Never satisfied
(by Edouard Salier)

Police raid Kuti family "Shrine" club

Nigerian police late Saturday raided the New Shrine, nightclub
in Lagos...
(follows).















(Jamati/FireTongue)



Le Shrine avait été ouvert en 1978
à Lagos par Fela et avait fermé peu
de temps après sa mort.
Pendant une vingtaine d'années, ce
temple de l'AfroBeat a été l'un des
clubs les plus connus d'Afrique.
Le fils de Fela, Femi, a redonné vie
à ce club mythique en ouvrant le
New Shrine dans le même quartier,
en octobre 2000.
History repeats...

(Céline, Lagos)

Here a "must see" at Femi's New Shrine...


(dejiario)

I've brought you this from Sardinia...

Come on ! follow G@ttoGiallo's footsteps on Sardinian sands !

... want more ?

Click on the pic below to see a roundup of the best places in the South East coast
of the island - all within a reach of 8 to 30 km away from my Granny's.

... now save this for next winter, so you can feel warm on the coldest nights.

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Ten years ago, Africa has lost his best musician
FELA KUTI : 1938 > 1997

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