|
|
 |
Concert Review
|
| Click Here to go back. |
Rolling Stone, Concert Review >>
A little later, over at the Gentilly Stage, I saw A Tribe Called Red – three Native American DJs from Ottawa, Canada – running a rare sight at Jazz Fest: a line of laptops, samplers and turntables. But their non-stop set was dense, fluid and proudly topical, with propulsive loops of drum-circle percussion speared by samples of ritual singing: North America's first dance culture powering a new one. There was heavy metal in the charge, dancehall and bhangra cadence in the rapping that flew overhead and a knockout shot of the Raiders' 1971 hit "Indian Reservation" – so obvious you didn't expect it, so hip when it jumped out of the mix.
05/01/13 >> go there
|
| Click Here to go back. |
|
 |
|
|
|
