Nomad's Calendar: This Weekend

This weekend see the group featured in our Wednesday's Reader Picks, the Krar Collective.

August 15th, Saturday 8:30pm: Krar Collective and Yak Attack @ The New Empowering Church (1A Westgate Street E8 3RL) Live music by Ethiopian phenomenon KRAR COLLECTIVE - a six string power house of great grooves and exotic moods. Just played at WOMAD festival - everyone loved them. YAK ATTACK (Afro Asian Funk / Himalayan Blues Dub)Rooted in the foothills of the Nepalese Himalayas, Yak Attack is a London based, shape-shifting musical outfit built around a core of Afro-Asian rhythms. Fusing Nepali/Himalayan folk and Raag with Funk, Afrobeat, Blues, Dub and other traditions and influences as and when the Yaks feel like it.

To see some videos of the Krar Collective, check out Wednesday's post. Here are some videos to get you in the mood for Yak Attack:




(you might want to skip to 0:55 on this video)


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Wednesday's Reader Picks

This week's reader picks come not as a track review, but an artist suggestion from Julia. The artist is Krar Collective.

The krar is a 5 or 6 stringed lute from Eritrea and Ethiopia that often amplified. The Krar Collective is a group based here in London that (obviously) features the krar and plays Ethiopian music with a contemporary edge. Unfortunately, the group has only a few videos available online and the sound quality is not the best, but it does give you an idea of the group's vibrancy and you don't need descent sound quality to admire the energetic dancing.







For a better sound quality sound recording, check out their sample track on their MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/krarcollective