Fania and Goldenvoice present ...
CALENTURA featuring BURAKA SOM SISTEMA
with special guest ALO WALA
Calentura is excited to welcome BURAKA SOM SISTEMA from Portugal to celebrate the 10 year anniversary and final US tour. Pioneers of global club music, Buraka Som Sistema is touring with special guest ALO WALA
Presented Subsuelo + LNL, Calentura is a globa booty bass party crew based in Los Angeles, representing the new generation of dance music from the legedary FANIA RECORDS. The Calentura DJs bring together salsa twerk, cumbia trap, tropical funk, Afro-house, moombahton and more for a sweaty dance party aimed at your mid-section.
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA
Back in 2006 when four buddies got together to play music at a small club in the center of Lisbon, little did they know they would end up becoming part of a very select group of international bands involved in the process of re-shaping "World Music" — making it the coolest it has ever been. João Barbosa (Branko) and Rui Pité (Riot) met while attending high school in Amadora, a city in the outskirts of Lisbon. They were in a band for a while, but quickly got sick of rehearsals and crappy concerts. Instead they picked up a second-hand sampler, a computer and locked themselves in an attic making beats.
Together they started collaborating with several artists from the Lisbon music scene, where they bumped into Kalaf Angelo. The encounter with Andro Carvalho (Conductor) took place a little before they set their minds on Kuduro — the dance music genre that was taking the ghettos of Luanda by storm and spreading to African clubs in Lisbon. Together, the four started editing and remixing Kuduro instrumentals from artists like DJ Znobia, DJ Du Marcel and DJ Jesus, to play at their then new monthly residence at Club Mercado. The audience, a mixed crowd of youngsters (that had never stepped into an african club), had the chance to experience those songs in a club for the frst time – they literally went mad, it was all new, fresh and raw.. Songs like Yah! and Sem Makas became local bangers which only regulars knew about. It was like a secret reunion, the perfect club, in the perfect city at the right moment. After a few months Club Mercado got shut down, but a strong demand for the nights continued, and that spawned the decision to form the band and start touring. They named the band Buraka Som Sistema after Buraca, one of Amadora's eleven parishes, the latter being Portugal's 4th most populated city, and hometown to J-Wow and Riot. Buraca is however mostly known for the high number of African emigrants and a high crime rate.
The Band's first release "From Buraka to the World" (2006), initially a limited edition of 700 copies, sold out in 1 week. It was released by Enchufada, the label created a couple of years before by João and Kalaf. Made out of random un-recycled boxes where every package was different, the EP caught the attention of Sony Music and in a matter of weeks there was a considerably bigger reissue out on the streets with a few extra songs.
Being on the road solidly for three years transformed Buraka from what was initially a producer's idea into a fully-fedged band. Komba sounds like a band. An album ready to make thousands of people dance in festivals and clubs around the world, it takes the group further on their quest to fnd their own sound, pushing them away from diminishing labels like "Progressive Kuduro". This evolution is what keeps them relevant in a music world always looking for the next big thing.
They're not trying to impress anyone with the newest synthesizer patch or the new cool BPM of the season. They're just having fun, making beats and having even more fun playing them out to people around the world, while living life as intensely as possible.
ALO WALA
Alo Wala is the sound of a new Europe, a new world, and a new way of thinking about one another as belonging to an interconnected global society. Today in a time when dancehall and hip hop informed culture has taken hold worldwide, local club DJs, multi-lingual rappers and bedroom producers are coming into their own and becoming leaders of a new generation. Alo Wala is poised to step out as one of the bright lights of this movement.
Alo Wala, meaning “The light vendor” in a Bengali and Hindi melange, is a live electronic music band employing a host of global influences on their sonic palette. Featuring Chicago-born rapper Shivani Ahlowalia and Tropical Bass pioneers Copia Doble Systema, the live show swanks energetically-charged vocals delivered by Shivani; hefty percussion from boy wonder Julius Sylvest; bombastic uproar from the original tropical Viking, Copyflex and hypnotically magniloquent live visuals from VJ Mad Es.
More than bedroom producers sampling rhythms from foreign lands, Alo Wala’s forthcoming debut EP, dubbed Cityboy, is marked by a lifetime of journeys. Having lived in the USA, India, Guinea-Bissau, Spain and Denmark, Shivani brings profound universal insight into the studio. When her hypnotic flow met with the Danish production unit: Julius Sylvest & Copyflex (Copia Doble Systema) known for experimenting in everything from reinterpretations of traditional Cumbia to Italian Gangsta Rap, a well-informed galactic soundtrack for our globally mobile age was created.
Alo Wala’s sound is the result of the increasingly small world we live in. This trans-national project features the who’s who of producers in the global bass scene including: Schlachthofbronx, The Clerk, Eloq, Boody, Nucleya, Brooklyn Shanti and even a feature on Buraka Som Sistema’s most recent album Buraka with the tune In A Minute.
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