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EVENT: Authenticité Campaign PtII

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

“Embarking on a campaign of pro-Africa cultural awareness, Mobutu renamed the country the Republic of Zaire in October 1971.”

Kinshasa in the early 70s = Mobutu, the abacost, Rumble in the Jungle and…

Zaire 74‘.

Taking place during Ali’s memorable fight with the world heavyweight champion at the time George Foreman, this was both a well timed and well executed music event rivaling any of its global counterparts.

Zaire 74′ was the pro-black 3 day music festival that enlisted the likes of James Brown, BB King, Miriam Makeba plus a whole host of other African, Black-American and Hispanic artists.

Possibly being overshadowed by the fight itself, a very curious Jeffrey Levy-Hinte (When we were Kings) decided to take on the task of gathering, cutting and editing all the archived footage of this magnanimous musical affair. As a result, he now presents us with: “Soul Power” the documentary.

Coined as ‘The Greatest Music Festival That You Have Never Seen’ – we owe it to ourselves to take the “Never” out; and alter the premise.

For anyone inspired by Black music of that era or the ‘Black Revolution‘ occurring at that time, Soul Power promises to deliver the goods.

This brings us onto the screening…

Happening this Sunday (3pm) at Electric Cinema on Portobello Road, I urge you to get your goat-meat skewers ready for a 90 minute lesson in Black music history on the big screen*.

then…

From here, Pause and Shook magazine keep the buzz going in the form of an afterparty at Marketplace. They’ve managed to charm a stellar line up of DJs including Charlie Dark, Eric Lau, Bemi (Amplified), Juven (Pause), Hits (Pause) and Eric Soul (Afrogroov)

Free entry, freebie give-aways and quality choonage galore – get ready to say it loud:

I’m black and proud.

*Apparently you can get discounted tickets for the screening too if you email info@putmeonit.com

News: Get Shook!

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

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Sorry for the break in transmissions. Real life got in the way of my virtual existence….probably a good thing really…balance is key….anyway,now i’m back, I feel it’s my duty to spread the word that the Summer edition of Shook Magazine is ripe and ready for purchase.

With a feature on filmmaker & all-round good guy B+ (whose work appears on the cover above), a chat with Raekwon from the Wu about an album more hotly awaited than the second coming, ghetto-turismo in Morò de Providencia, the oldest favela in Rio, with French artist JR. a freeze frame on UK’s premier ‘house dance’ crew InDaHouse in full effect. an interview with 9th Wonder and his True School crew, Rashad Smith (if you don’t know who that is, check the back of your ‘Woo Hah’ 12-inch or CD-single) a feature on the Eglo crew represent (Floating Points, Alex Nut & the whole 9 yards), the story behind the 1974 concert in Kinshasa when James Brown, Bill Withers and Celia Cruz lined up alongside Miriam Makeba and Franco – it’s the subject of the new Soul Power film, words and mixes from Rahaan & the Chuck Brothers, the crate diggers outta Chi-city, words from Karizma who has a new album out via R2, deep words about Freddie Hubbard, as remembered by Creed Taylor (of CTI and Impulse! fame). a short story by Charlie Dark (‘The God of Road’), memories of French novelist Boris Vian and a revamped back section where they cover anything from Congolese sapeurs to boutique stores in the heart of Hoaxtown you really would be stupid not to at least blag your friends copy….but that kind of situation soon gets strained, we recommend you teleport to www.shook.fm and buy your own….