Influential world music showcase Babel Med Music revealed the 2016 selection. The 12° World Music Forum will take place March 17-19, 2016 in Marseilles, France.
The world music showcase, trade fair and conference attracts more than 2000 professionals from 5 continents and 15000 spectators expected to attend the 31 concerts of this buzzing forum. The event takes place in the monumental Dock des Suds.
Babel Med Music Selection
7SON@TO (Guadeloupe, France) – The revival of ancestral Guadeloupian Gwo Ka
Alejandra Ribera (Canada) – The charming vocals of globalist folk-music
Autostrad (Jordan) – The rock road of Jordanian indie pop
Baba Zula (Turkey) – Cult figures of Turkish Psychedelia
Bamba Wassoulou Groove (Mali) – Malian electric groove with African psychedelic rock flavor
Breabach (Scotland) – Modern Scottish folk sensation
Compagnie Lyakam (India, France) – Indo-European dancer
Djmawi Africa (Algeria) – Festive Gnawa fusion
Dorantes & Renaud Garcia-Fons (France-Spain) – Masterful flamenco-jazz conversation
Elida Almeida (Cape Verde) – Cape Verdean energy and saudade
Imhotep (France) – Exploratory dub sound
Jewish Monkeys (Israel) – Burlesque rock with klezmer aroma
Kalascima (Italy) – electro-trad tarantela trance
Korean Percussion Duo Bud (South Korea) – melodic percussion by Korean female duo
Labelle (Reunion Island, France) – Electro-Maloya trance
La Gallera Social Club (Venezuela) – Venezuelan folktronica
La Nuit D’antigone (France-Germany-Turkey) – The Mediterranean odyssey of resistant women
La Pegatina (Spain) – Rumba urbana from Barcelona
Marìa Sìmoglou Ensemble (Greece, France) – Contemporary rebetiko
Paille (La Martinique, France) – Caribbean ragga
Ricardo Ribeiro (Portugal) – Lisbon Fado maestro
Rocky Marsiano (Portugal) – Afro-Portuguese rhythms
Saodaj’ (Reunion Island, France) – Acoustic and nomadic Maloya
Sirventes (France) – Troubadours from Pays d’Oc
Temenik Electric (France) – Arabian-Rock
The Khoury Project (Jordan-Palestine) – The East revisited by gifted siblings
Tigana Santana (Brazil) – The secret musical treasure of Bahia
Turbo Sans Visa (France) – Fiery global sound
Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin (Armenia-Turkey-Belgium) – Armenian-Turkish musical reconciliation
More details at dock-des-suds.org/babelmedmusic2016
Author: World Music Central News Room
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