AfriAsianEurAmericana is a musical showcase of members of the extended funketabla family. A mighty tasty melange of totally acoustic music, totally electronic music and mad world of electro-acousticism.
Sunday, October 19th 7pm - 10pm
With Yaw Amponsah, Byron Au Yong, Crispy, Sebastian Lange & James Whetzel.
This event is free:
About the performers:
Yaw Amponsah is a brilliant African traditional drummer, who will do a short set traditional West African drumming to the accompaniment of palmwine guitar.
http://revver.com/video/1177328/yaw-...zel-on-guitar/
http://www.funketabla.com/yaw.php
Byron Au Yong is an innovative avant-garde euro classical composer/environmental artist/chinese/japanese percussionist.
http://hearbyron.com/default.aspx
Crispy is a downtempo impressario extraordinaire, and he'll be spinning excellent downtempo beats.
http://www.myspace.com/bechillnow
Sebastian Lange's super fantastic electric violin and beats are heard in the group EQlateral, and in the group Das Dhoom. For this show he'll play solo and with James Whetzel.
James Whetzel (North Indian classical sarod gets very funke with Indian folk, West African and electronic beats, plus incredibly clever throat singing)
http://www.funketabla.com/jwhetzel.php
http://www.myspace.com/jameswhetzel