Turbo Tabla, July 19
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alonewiththemoonI'm going to this fabulous event featuring the wonderful drumming of Karim and other musicians and dancers at Passim on July 19--there's a link to buy tickets here, if anyone else is interested. I can't say enough good things about Karim!
From the Turbo Tabla website:
TURBO TABLA is a performance that combines the spontaneity of a live drummer with the stylistic intensity of a DJ. The best description would be "Arabic Techno". Karim, a classically trained Egyptian percussionist, performs on his feet with an amplified Tabla (goblet drum) that employs many of the effects and sounds of an electric guitar. Karim dances, spins, jumps and entertains while executing the most rapid and grooveworthy hand percussion possible. The accompaniments are always the remixes and recreations of traditional Arabic and World music, with techno and hip hop beats, created by Karim with his own music studio. Karim is an accomplished performer of traditional Arabic music with the highest calibre of authenticity. It is this classical expertise that allows Karim to make modern Oriental music and Arabic Techno.
Karim's Turbo Tabla recordings feature talented musicians and singers. Each performer is among the strongest in their category, and gifted in their field. The songs are bolstered with heavy basslines, dancefloor grooves and immaginative arrangements. The newest CD Bellydance Overdrive is realeased by Mondo Melodia/Ark21 (Hakim, Said Mrad, Cheb Khaled, Simon Shaheen), a company founded by famed music impresario Miles Copeland, and distributed by Universal Records.
From the Turbo Tabla website:
TURBO TABLA is a performance that combines the spontaneity of a live drummer with the stylistic intensity of a DJ. The best description would be "Arabic Techno". Karim, a classically trained Egyptian percussionist, performs on his feet with an amplified Tabla (goblet drum) that employs many of the effects and sounds of an electric guitar. Karim dances, spins, jumps and entertains while executing the most rapid and grooveworthy hand percussion possible. The accompaniments are always the remixes and recreations of traditional Arabic and World music, with techno and hip hop beats, created by Karim with his own music studio. Karim is an accomplished performer of traditional Arabic music with the highest calibre of authenticity. It is this classical expertise that allows Karim to make modern Oriental music and Arabic Techno.
Karim's Turbo Tabla recordings feature talented musicians and singers. Each performer is among the strongest in their category, and gifted in their field. The songs are bolstered with heavy basslines, dancefloor grooves and immaginative arrangements. The newest CD Bellydance Overdrive is realeased by Mondo Melodia/Ark21 (Hakim, Said Mrad, Cheb Khaled, Simon Shaheen), a company founded by famed music impresario Miles Copeland, and distributed by Universal Records.
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Date: 2004-07-14 09:44 am (UTC)The Copelands are a very interesting family. Someone should write a book about them, if they haven't already.
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Date: 2004-07-14 09:52 am (UTC)I got ogled by Miles Copeland at a Bellydance Superstars workshop. It was kind of funny. He definitely has a lot of sleazy promoter ambiance surrounding him, but he is certainly doing a lot to bring new popularity to bellydance (which I think is a good thing, for the most part).