GROUP INERANE / STEFFEN BASHO JUNGHANS / FILM
// Date: November 21, 2011 // Venue: Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin // Doors: 20:00 // Tickets: 12 € advance sale plus fees, 15 € box office // Get tickets here   Program: Film: Land of the Songhai (Sublime Frequencies) Live: Steffen Basho-Junghans Live: Group Inerane (Tuareg) In between and after: DJ Kandis Williams    Group Inerane The latest band to make the transition from the rich catalogue of Sublime Frequencies recordings to the live stages of Europe is perhaps the most anticipated of them all, the one we have been waiting for since Guitars From Agadez Vol. 1 first stormed from the speakers and sold out in record time four years ago: Group Inerane. Simmering up from the rebel heart of the Tuareg guitar scene, Group Inerane are a rough-hewn, tranced-out psychedelic juggernaut careering off the path beaten to the West by their peers Tinariwen and Group Bombino, coursing instead along a thrillingly scuzzed-up parallel lineage to Link Wray, The Velvet Underground and even Creedence Clearwater Revival.   › Watch “Ano Nagarus” (live)  Centred around band leader and six-string god Bibi Ahmed, Inerane hail from Agadez, Niger, one of the most volatile zones in West Africa. Out of this vast, arid land long beset by political unrest comes the Inerane sound, fit to bring tumultuous joy to any party on the globe: ecstatic and electrified Saharan guitar modes entangle/disentangle themselves around mantric vocals and propulsive trap kit drum attack. Genuinely rocking and raw as hell, at points the fuzz descends and Inerane seem to bore their way to the mainline of rock n’ roll itself. A second Inerane album, Vol. 3 of the Guitars From Agadez series, came out last year and gives further call to rejoice.    Press Quotes:  "This music is plain wonderful, life-affirming, and celebratory any way you look at it, and if you consider its origins, even more so" – Tiny Mix Tapes    "Group Inerane … encompasses the most exciting aspects of the Tuareg guitar style … a new form of Saharan psychedelia" – Dusted     Steffen Basho Junghans Berlin based guitarist, painter and author and innovator and key protagonist of the east german guitar scenen since the 70s. A virtuoso of the 12string guitar, Basho-Junghans combines the steelstring and minimal traditions of Northern America with elements from indian, classic, oriental, nordic and eastern musics to create highly facinating non-orthodox, often archaic and always hypnotic pieces. He has releases on Honest Jons, Important, Tompkins Square and many other respected labels. › bluemomentarts.de   ....Like the gamelan or any number of ritual musics from around the world, Junghans seems to be calling the spirits down to earth..... – All Music Guide     Film: Land of the Songhai (Sublime Frequencies) A film By Hisham Mayet, 45 minutes, 2011   Hisham Mayet’s latest film explores the music and landscape of Songhai country in Western Niger. Traveling down the Niger River, Mayet's camera encounters Zarma mock possession hoedowns, Wodaabe trance vocal performances, spirit possession ceremonies, Godje one-string laments, Contigi string masters, Comsaa riots, and Sahel night markets, creating a dynamic and fascinating glimpse into this arid but culturally vibrant bend in the Niger river.	> November 21, 2011
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