Toubab+Krewe | pt
Krewella é um trio de eletronic, dance music e dubstep formado em Chicago, Illinois em 2007 pelo produtor Kris Trindl (Rainman) e as irmãs Jahan e Yasmine Yousaf. O EP de estréia do grupo, Play Hard, foi lançado dia 18 de junho de 2012. O videoclipe da banda para sua música de maior sucesso, "Alive", atingiu mais de 10 milhões de visualizações no Youtube, e a revista Billboard aposta no trio como um dos grandes sucessos de 2013.
Kris Trindl e Jahan Yousaf se conheceram ainda durante o ensino médio em Chicago, e começaram a produzir as primeiras músicas do...
The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight came together in 1996 as an instrumental side project led by guitarist Jimmy Bower and drummer Joe Lacaze of the New Orleans sludge metal group Eyehategod, along with members of Crowbar and Down. Bower and Lacaze's inspiration from the start was to get away from the pummelling nihilistic dirge metal of Eyehategod and use their new project as an outlet for the improvisational music that they had absorbed growing up in New Orleans, whether it be jazz, soul, funk, or rock.
The Krewe's influences range from the Southern blues-rock of The Allman Brothers Band, native...
Blending American and West African influences into a sound all its own, Toubab Krewe has set "a new standard for fusions of rock 'n' roll and West African music" (Afropop Worldwide).
Since forming in 2005, the magnetic instrumental quintet has won a diverse and devoted following at performances everywhere from Bonnaroo to the legendary Festival of the Desert in Essakane, Mali, the most remote festival in the world. The band developed their unique sound over the course of numerous extended trips to Mali, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, where they immersed themselves in the local culture and studied and performed with...
Toubabou was formed in 1974 when percussionist Michel Séguin and vocalist Lise Cousineau, founding members of Ville Emard Blues Band (VEBB), were asked by the Québec government to organize the final concert of the Superfrancofête youth festival, on the Plains of Abraham in Québec City. Séguin and Cousineau had ties to French African musicians with whom they had played in 1973. These same musicians had given Séguin the title "Toubabou-djembe-folla" (bambara expression meaning "stranger playing skins"). They invited several artists from Mali and Senegal (including the renowned Doudou N'Diaye Rose) to join them for a show combining traditional African music...
