SPACE ECHO: KIALA & THE AFROBLASTER

Name: SPACE ECHO: KIALA & THE AFROBLASTER
Start: 2024-05-24T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Noordwal 1, 1021 PX Amsterdam, Netherlands

Schedule

Fri May 24 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Noordwal 1, 1021 PX Amsterdam, Netherlands | Amsterdam, NH

Doors 20:30; music starts 21:00
De Ruimte presents Space Echo: adventurous, genre-defying music from all over the globe. This edition the 10-piece afrobeat band Kiala & the Afroblaster will play their groovy, modern take on the vintage Afrobeat sound! Pre-act is the wonderful kora-player Layba Diawara.
KIALA & THE AFROBLASTER
Kiala & the Afroblaster is a 10-man Afrobeat band of Kiala Nzavotunga, former guitarist of Fela Kuti, and Afrogrooves, an Amsterdam-based collective of musicians with a passion for Afrobeat music. The band is a modern take on the vintage Afrobeat sound, full of tight percussion and horn lines, bluesy guitar riffs, and powerful lyrics.
In 2023, the band wrote and recorded new music, the EP Spiritual Power, which will be released in 2024. Spiritual Power expands on the band’s classic Afrobeat sound with an injection of powerful hip hop and funk influences. In the words of Kiala, “The music is the message and the message is the music.” Kiala and the Afroblaster have entertained audiences at Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam), Echoes of a Pilgrim (The Hague), Musica Mundo (Amersfoort), Copacobana (Gent, Belgium) and a sold-out Cinetol.
Kiala Nzavotunga - lead vocals, guitar | Thomas Hanenberg - keys | Yinske Silva - vocals | Mark Oomen - guitar | Steven Jones - vocals | Jermano Ivanello - bass | Robbert Jaspers - drums | Abriel Ferreira - trumpet | Ibou Ndong - percussion | Oliver Emmitt - trombone
LAYBA DIAWARA
The amazing musician Layba Diawara descends from a line of griots (dans la musique -Mandingue) from Guinea Conakry where he received the classical music of Mandingue culture in the tradition of his father and grandfather.
His main instrument is the 21-string kora, a West African instrument, a kind of harp with a gourd as a sound box. In addition to kora, Diawara also plays ngoni, guitar and marimba.