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4. Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int’l feat Samba Mapangala and Chiwoniso
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St. New York, NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: World/Africa/Highlife/Jazz
Chicago’s Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int’ are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Congolese music legend, the great Samba Mapangala! Playing the best-loved songs from both artists’ repertoires, the group is now also playing new songs that fuse together all their strengths.
The Occidental Brothers’ blend of high-energy soukous, rootsy Ghananian Highlife and African Jazz conjures sounds of the golden age of the African guitar band and has made them favorites of of music critics and devotees of the style, but it’s a sound that has also seduced an audience of listeners as diverse as the members of this multi-racial band.
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