Among others, Kobo Town, Kommuna Lux, Gangar, Ti’Kaniki, Puuluup, Koza Mostra, Vinicio Capossela, Djely Tapa and Barrut are also featured in this year’s Sziget festival’s world music selection on the Global Village stage.
From August 10 to 15, a wide range of genres and styles will line up, from Mexican cumbia punk to Celtic and gypsy music to Greek etno ska-rock. A circus production will arrive from India, but giant puppets will also appear, the organizers told MTI on Friday.
As it was written, the best of world music from the Balkans to South America, from Mali to Korea and from India to the Middle East were invited to the Global Village stage. Before the concerts, music workshops await visitors during the day.
You can dance to calypso music at the Kobo Town concert in Trinidad, Canada, and the Mexican cumbia punk style is represented by the Band Son Rompe Pera. Kommuna Lux from Odessa, the also Ukrainian Balaklava Blues from Canada, the up-and-coming progressive folk band Gangar from Norway, the etno-punk Varkocs from Slovakia will give a concert, the gypsy singer Marcela will play with her Parisian band, and the German Lakvar’s multi-cultural band, the 60s, will perform French-Greek Deli Teli, which combines years of rock’n’roll and traditional Greek tsiftetel.
British Langan Band present their new pan-European album inspired by Celtic and Gypsy styles. Ti’Kaniki comes from the island of Réunion, but there will be an opportunity to rave at the production of the Estonian duo Puuluup or pogo at the concert of the Greek etno ska-rock performer Koza Mostra. The cheerful Belgian brass band Orchester International du Vetex will also take to the stage, as will Italy’s Vinicio Capossela.
Several artistic collaborations take place on the Island, such as the collaboration of the French Alright Mela with the Pakistani qawwali singer Shahzad Santoo Khan, or the American-French-Lebanese-Armenian collective Al-Qasar, which returns to its roots and plays Arabic fuzz. The new Israeli Balkan-klezmer band, Pulkes, is coming from the Middle East, and the well-known anna RF, who plays eastern electro-ethnic reggae, will play music.
Visitors can listen to several African musical styles. The roots duo Madalitso Band guides you to Malawi, the dancer Bamba Wassoulou Groove evokes the hot nights of Bamako, the diva Djely Tapa arrives from Mali, Lass, called the “new Youssou N’Dour”, takes visitors to Senegal, BCUC takes you to the world of South African music lovers. ADG7 fuses South Korean traditional music with pop and will feature Barrut, seven singers and a percussionist who draw on the vocal polyphonies of the Occitania region of France.
Among the Hungarian performers, the Bohemian Betyars, the Manaky reggae band and the ethno-dark-rock group Mordá will also take to the Global Village stage with their folk-ska-punk hits.
In addition to the musical programs, the Indian Circus Raj will present its production, which will perform in front of the audience with acrobats, musicians, tightrope walkers and a fakir. The Congo Massa giant puppets of the French company Archibald Caramantran also invite you to dance, accompanied by a giraffe, a zebra and two beautiful birds.
(MTI)
