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I Kiffe NY, the wide-ranging French urban cultures festival presented by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy over the course of October, will include two unique evenings of music. On October 9, 7:00 P.M. at Joe’s Pub, the Grammy-nominated R&B duo Les Nubians will headline Echos Nubian Voyager: Poetry & Music from the Urban Edge, a showcase of French urban music and poetry in the spirit of Def Poetry Jam. In addition to Les Nubians, performers will include John Banzaï, Souleymane Diamanka, Queen Godis and Jamarhl Crawford. On October 24, the Hiro Ballroom will host French New Talents, a CMJ Music Marathon showcase of acclaimed, emerging French urban music. The concert will feature La Caution, Wax Tailor and Mangu, and will begin at 7:00 P.M. La Caution will also perform at Joe’s Pub the night before, October 23, at 11:30 P.M.
Echos Nubian Voyager: Poetry & Music from the Urban Edge will feature an innovative mixture of urban art forms while serving as a forum for the discussion of a variety of universal issues, including city life, love, and the human spirit. The evening will be headlined and emceed by Les Nubians, a group that epitomizes all of these themes. The French/Cameroonian sisters have charmed audiences for almost a decade with their inventive and glamorous Afropean style, continuous flow of jazz nuances, hard hitting drum ‘n' bass lines, harmonious melodies, conscious proclamations and humanitarian endeavors. The duo’s singular sound exhibits a range of influences including Miriam Makeba, Ella Fitzgerald, Doudou N'diaye Rose, Fela Kuti, Edith Piaf, The Fugees and Soul II Soul. Echos: Nubian Voyager is Les Nubians’ first executive production.
Tickets for Echos Nubian Voyager: Poetry & Music from the Urban Edge are available at www.joespub.com for $25.
The October 24 event at Hiro Ballroom is part of the CMJ Music Marathon, the largest and longest-running music industry event of its kind: It brings together emerging and established artists for five intense nights of rock & roll in New York City. The show will provide New York (and CMJ festival) audiences with a unique opportunity to experience French New Talents, a triple bill of emerging hip-hop and rock artists.
One of these is La Caution, is a French hip-hop duo comprised of Hi-Tekk and Nikkfurie. Their song “Thé à la Menthe” can be heard as an instrumental in the film Ocean’s Twelve. Armed with a unique musical identity, the brothers from Noisy-Le-Sec, a Paris suburb, have built a grassroots—and, recently, also a mainstream—following by relentlessly touring and taking part in various albums, projects, mix tapes and movie soundtracks since 1996.
Also featured on the French New Talents bill is Wax Tailor, the DJ and producer. Likened by critics to the works of DJ Shadow, RJD2 and Portishead, his new release on Decon Records, Hope & Sorrow, showcases Wax Tailor’s downtempo hip-hop/trip-hop and cinematic style. The new album features guest vocalists including Sharon Jones, Ursula Rucker, Charlotte Savary, Voice, The Others and A State of Mind. The music has caught the attention of the Cannes Film Festival, which asked him to do the soundtrack for last year’s 60th anniversary celebration.
Mangu has fused Latino, pop and hip-hop forms since the late nineties. Born in the Dominican Republic, Mangu left his native country at a very early age for New York, where he formed his first band. He then moved to Miami, where he made his first album with renowned record producer Joe Galdo for Chris Blackwell’s Island Records. After great success across Europe and Latin America, Mangu moved to France and recorded his second album, Mi Familia, for Naïve Records.
Entry to the French New Talents show is free with a CMJ badge. Advance tickets are available for $15, by emailing events@themaritimehotel.com or reserve@hiroballroom.com and by phone, 212 462 4300, or $20 at the door. For more information, go to www.cmj.com/marathon. Tickets for La Caution at Joe’s Pub on Thursday, October 23 at are available at www.joespub.com, $15.
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