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Noura Mint Seymali @ Pioneer Works with 75 Dollar Bill
NOURA MINT SEYMALI
with 75 Dollar Bill
7:00pm: Doors
8:00pm: 75 Dollar Bill
9:15pm: Noura Mint Seymali
Noura Mint Seymali is a one of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries. Born into a prominent line of Moorish griot, Noura began her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her step-mother, the legendary Dimi Mint Abba. Noura also mastered the ardine, a 9-string harp reserved only for women. In the past few years, she has expanded her musical reach, combining her traditional background with an ear for global influences, rock and psychedelia.
She is now backed by a rhythm section composed of Ousmane Touré (bass) and Matthew Tinari (drums). Her husband, guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly provides ngoni-inspired, distortion- fueled psych guitar lines. Her music has found a new audience in Europe and North America.
The quartet released its first full-length album for the international market via Glitterbeat Records and has performed at events like Festival-au-Desert (Mali), Hayy Festival (Egypt), Jeux de Francophonie (France), Globafest (US) and Festival Timitar (Morocco). Through collaborations with artists like Tinariwen, Bassekou Kouyaté, and Baaba Maal, the band is actively exposing Mauritanian roots music to the world. In a rare merger of cultural authority and experimental prowess, Noura Mint Seymali applies the ancient musical traditions of the griot with a savvy contemporary aesthetic.
75 DOLLAR BILL
75dollarbill.bandcamp.com
Percussionist Rick Brown and guitarist Che Chen started playing as 75 dollar bill in 2012. Their raw electric music is informed by early American guitar boogie, the stringed instrument traditions of West Africa, India and the Middle East as well as by the space chords of Sun Ra and the minimalist and No Wave histories of their hometown. After a series of self-produced cassette/digital releases, their first "official" record, Wooden Bag was released by Other Music in January 2015.
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SOME PRESS FOR NOURA MINT
"Noura Mint Seymali has put out arguably the best psych blues album of 2014. It's hard not to occasionally think that if her band was NYC-based making limited tape runs, they'd be huge" Noisey
"A riot of traditional Mauritanian music and psychedelic rock, full of pulsing off-rhythms and gutsy, fluid vocals, and nimble, phaser-heavy swords from guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly...."
The Wire UK
"a fantastic marriage of desert grit and otherworldly haze." "one of the most exhilarating new musicians on the scene" Anastasia Tsioulcas NPR
PRESS FOR 75 DOLLAR BILL
"Che Chen's guitar: a cut-rate Japanese model sketching looped figures inside old Arabic modes, pushing jagged sound through a small amplifier. But as Mr. Chen stood playing hypnotic guitar repetitions, moving with the stresses of the riffs, the drummer Rick Brown sat on a square wooden box, open in the back, and attacked it from above[;;;..];;; He cued transitions in the music, building odd or compound rhythms, turning them around and blurring distinctions between downbeats and upbeats. " Ben Ratliff. The NY Times
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LocationPioneer Works (View)
159 Pioneer St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
United States
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