Broad Casting: Tony Allen and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ Cargo 29/01

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In 2009 Broad Casting will be a quarterly event built around unique artist-led collaborations kicking off with this month's pairing of Tony Allen and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

Fela Kuti once said that without Tony Allen he'd need four drummers at once. Of course, the style we know as afro-beat wouldn't sound anything like it without him. A true intuitive pioneer, Tony Allen managed to mix the brevity and snap of jazz drumming by the likes of Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Guy Warren, with the deep extended forms of African rhythms from highlife, Yoruba, and Ghana. Still flipping poly-rhythms today, Tony's involvement with Damon Albarn, and label Honest Jon's has brought his talent to a mainstream audience via The Good The Bad and The Queen whilst he still continues to write and record his own music, and collaborate with a diverse range of musicians - from rapper Ty to French man of mystery Sebastien Tellier and now of course The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble....

The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is an instrumental group comprised of 8 horn players and a drummer. All 8 of the horn players are sons of jazz musician Kelan Phil Cohran (who played trumpet in Sun Ra's Arkestra). Originally formed as a band of street performers in Chicago IL, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are currently based in New York City where and have played and recorded with artists such as Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Maxwell and of course Phil Cohran. We are thrilled that they will be performing for us in advance of the spring release of their debut album for Honest Jons. Witnessing these guys pack the Cargo stage with Tony Allen doubling their rhythm section is not an opportunity to be missed!!

Not content with one legendary drummer on the premises, our DJ support tonight comes courtesy of Malcolm Catto who is no stranger to Cargo - his band The Heliocentrics having collaborated with Mulatu Astatke for what is already a legendary live Broad Casting show.

Each Broad Casting event is recorded especially for Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

LIVE: TONY ALLEN & THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE + THE MIGHTY JEDDO

DJS: MALCOM CATTO + KAREN P

7-1

£9 adv