Orchestra Gold/Busquelo at Race Brook Lodge
Fri Mar 8, 2024 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM EST
BarnSpace @ Race Brook Lodge, 01257
Orchestra Gold/Busquelo at Race Brook Lodge
Fri Mar 8, 2024 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM EST
BarnSpace @ Race Brook Lodge, 01257
Description
Secret Planet x Race Brook Lodge's ALMOST SPRING WEEKENDER kicks off on Friday night with a special West Coast treat — African psych rock collective Orchestra Gold lands in Sheffield on their first time through Western Mass. The swinging five-piece soaks up vast Malian influences, from Afro Funk to traditional Bambara ritual song, and delivers them with A-grade aplomb and a clear devotion to fuzz, reverb and musical healing. The night ends with an intimate DJ set in the Down County Social Club with Nat Rahav aka Busquelo sharing his deep love for global dance-forward tracks.
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A decade-long collaboration between Mariam Diakite and Erich Huffaker has yielded something golden: an African psychedelic rock ensemble based in California with raw, hypnotic vocals and a groove that simply cooks. Orchestra Gold. The swinging six-piece soaks up vast Malian influences, from Afro Funk to traditional Bambara ritual song, and delivers them with A-grade aplomb and a clear devotion to fuzz, reverb and musical healing. The brass horn lines and hypnotic guitar riffs trace their sound back to the great African Orchestres of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Their latest album, "Medicine", produced by Chico Mann (Antibalas), is an absolute earworm and highly worth digging into. Says Chico: “They are grounded in tradition and moving the conversation of African diasporic music forward."
🎥: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbdIOCXlcE
🎥: https://youtu.be/k566_6QJPS0
Nat Rahav aka Busquelo selects deep, sublime, and multicultural sounds for discerning dancefloors. Using folkloric and the futuristic as skipping stones, his music invokes ancestral rhythms as the blueprint for excursions into international dance music culture. A longtime member of the Turntables on the Hudson crew, he has been DJing in the NYC scene for two decades. In the 90's he founded and ran the record label RhythmLove with partner Nickodemus. He was a resident DJ at Bembe in Brooklyn for many years in the 00's. He also hosted a salsa radio show on WKCR called The Mambo Machine. He is also the founder of a music festival called Present Present which showcases emerging artists, many of whom have been awarded or nominated for Grammys.
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AN ALMOST SPRING WEEKENDER is a secret planet x race brook lodge joint. weekend passes are now sold out, but you can still purchase tickets to the other individual events: Garth Stevenson on Saturday afternoon and Nickodemus/BIGYUKI/Deejay Theory on Saturday night.
Location
BarnSpace @ Race Brook Lodge, 01257