Urban Honking

Wednesday, July 18

9:30pm 13 MONTHS OF SUNSHINE @ holocene

WED JUL 18
Holocene presents…
13 MONTHS OF SUNSHINE: AFRICAN SOUNDS DANCE PARTY
featuring special live guests:
Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang
DJ Jason Urick
DJ Peace Pipe
DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem
13 Months of Sunshine, our monthly party for emerging African dance music, is proud to feature a live performance by special guests Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang, bringing ferocious dance music from New York via Sierra Leone!

8:30pm | $8.00 advance $10.00 day of show
Tickets:
Brown Paper Tickets
Stranger Tickets

“We speak one language now,” says Sierra Leonian singer Janka Nabay of the band he calls the “Bubu Gang,” an eclectic group of New York-based musicians who fell in love with Janka’s frenetic style of “bubu” dance music following the 2010 release of the Bubu King EP on True Panther Sounds. The band has started infusing bubu music with a broader range of stylistic influences, and Janka has evolved into an inspired band-leader and MC in the tradition of James Brown and Fela Kuti.

The new sounds draw as much from Janka’s indigenous bubu as they do from the sunny energy of Ghanaian highlife, the extended improvisations of 70s Miles Davis, the hypnotic rhythms of classic Afro-beat and the swirling shredding guitars of 60s and 70s psychedelia. The “An Letah” EP on True Panther Sounds, released in March 2012, will be followed by a full-length this June on David Byrne’s label Luaka Bop!