✹ MIDNIGHT VOODOO meets HVALASVEN ✹ IN ZAGREB ✹
This one goes to Hassan and Adam FROM MIDNIGHT VOODOO !
Classical world music night! Thanks to Miron and the AKC Attack crew, we had a really good time, great music was playing and we shared many good stories together, also tried some fine Chinese teas with Miron. In the mean time, every local record store has been properly searched up! What more can I say, but a big Thank you to the "Drugačija glazba" team that made this possible, the "Peoples Kitchen" crew for the indescribably fine and inventive recipes - a true gastronomic delight! Give thanks to everyone who volunteered in one way or another! Until the next session!
David Mocanin took some photos and videos, so check them out!
ADAM BKR from Midnight Voodoo is a Belgian vinyl collector who focuses on world music from the 70s and 80s. During his travels, he began to collect many obscure records and present them to a wider audience. He is the co-founder of Midnight Voodoo, a group of like-minded people who promote music without borders and offer an alternative to the nights in Liège and Brussels. A regular host on local Kiosk Radio and Palestinian Radio Alhara, his sets are a melting pot of organic beats such as Afrobeat, cumbia, Bollywood soundtracks, oriental belly dance, Asian psychedelic rock and anything else funky or groovy enough to get you moving. After unforgettable guest appearances at clubs and festivals around the world, starting from Belgium and Germany all the way to Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, he intends to mark his next guest appearance this spring in Zagreb. It's a pleasure to see people dance, not to conventional pop songs, but to music with complex foundations and unusual instruments. Here are a few of his links!
Onwards, DJ BEZUM, better known as Miron Milić, graphic artist and illustrator from Vinkovci made us dance with his "music from the studio". The range of genres in his archive ranges from Pakistani surf-folk, Turkish psych disco-folk, Afro beat, reggae, Egyptian psych surf, free jazz, post disco to psychobilly. In other words - "Global B hits for the local C team!"
And InI myself made a warming up session with some psychedelic guitar melodies from Azerbaijan, rhythms of Haitian rara from village parades and public markets that alternate with drumming and harsh synths from Zanzibar, Ethiopia and Somalia. Sounds crazy! Many of recordings come from broadcasts of small radio stations around the world, including film and local popular music rarely heard outside the home region.
When I sit down and think about it, in the end our goal is very simple - to explore forgotten musical treasures, and to provide greater access and exposure to music that is not sufficiently documented by music industry curators.
*Hassan, Adam and myself at the Zagreb International Airport
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