Venue: Mercury Lounge (NY)
Date: November 25, 2014
Concert Review by Dawoud Kringle
On the night of the Ferguson riots, while protests sprang up throughout major cities in the US, InnoVe Gnawa Band took the stage and brought the legendary and magical Gnawa music to NYC’s Mercury Lounge, with Black Rock Coalition mainstay Faith waiting their turn.
Photo courtesy of Ribab Fusion
Artist: Ribab Fusion
Date: September 24, 2014
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall II , New York, NY
Genre: world music/modern Moroccan traditional music
To really make a monochord like the Amazigh (Berber) ribab sing, you have to have the chops of Jimi Hendrix. Or so insists Foulane Bouhssine of Ribab Fusion, who’s on a mission to turn the bowed, one-string fiddle into a furiously funky sign of a new era.
