The Global Beat Festival: DakhaBrakha and Poor Rich Boy

Date: Monday, June 16th, 2014

Time: 7:30PM - 10:00PM

Organizer: Arts Brookfield

Address: 225 Liberty Street

URL: http://artsbrookfield.com/event/dahkabraka/#.U01y7Hk7RQM

Phone: 212-417-2414

Fee: Free

Description:

The Global Beat Festival explores music from around the world befitting the stunning acoustics of the magnificent, 10-story glass-vaulted Winter Garden. Each night pairs two groups from different traditions, synthesizing the old with the new.

DAKHABRAKHA
DakhaBrakha’s accordion, bass drum, mouth harp, and cello reveal both love of tradition and post-modern punk defiance. The quartet’s astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range create songs that are steeped in Ukrainian folk tradition but not bounded by it; they deploy the piercing vocal harmonies of Balkan music, the drones and systematic unfolding of Minimalism, and the drive of African dance music. Founded by former underground theater performers, the self-proclaimed “ethno-chaos group” possesses an incredible stage presence that transcends its eclectic repertoire and instrumentation.

POOR RICH BOY
Poor Rich Boy is Pakistan’s discretely subversive, indie-art rock phenomenon, whose music conjures the strangeness of everyday life in a society where expressing one’s inner world can be both a cathartic and subtly rebellious act. Enigmatic and layered, the band’s striking vocals, atmospheric sounds, and the occasional kazoo create a crystalline sound. Well known in Lahore’s underground circuit, Poor Rich Boy is known for its energetic and pulsating live shows filled with raucous frenzy.