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Live Here are our upcoming live-concerts in the US:
14 Sep. 2011, 10 pm: @ The Shrine, New York, NY
16 Sep. 2011: @ ¡Globalquerque! Festival, Albuquerque, NM
17 Sep. 2011: @ ¡Globalquerque! Festival, Albuquerque, NM
21 Sep. 2011, 8 and 10 pm: @ Yoshi’s, Oakland, CA
23 Sep. 2011, 8 pm: @ California State University, Bakersfield, CA
24 Sep. 2011: @ Angel City Jazz Festival, Los Angeles, CA with special guest DJ Spooky!
25 Sep. 2011, 12 noon: @ Carlsbad Music Festival, Carlsbad, CA
30 Sep. 2011, 9 pm: at a benefit for Barka Foundation @ Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2 Oct. 2011: @ Farafina, New York, NY (double bill w/Timbila)
5 Oct. 2011: at U.S.-Africa Business Summit Opening Gala @ Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
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music At the moment we are working on our new album, and we are very excited about our new songs!
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Live Come to the concert of Maï on the 21st of January at:
Biddy Early’s Pub
at 43 Murray St
bet. West Broadway and Church.
New York City
take the A or C train to Chambers
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Live The last concert in NYC for quite a while will be in the Shrine (Harlem) on the 19th of january.
directions: 2271 adam clayton powell jr. blvd. (133-134 st) new york, ny 10030 • 212-690-7807 • info@shrinenyc.com
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Live We will play two shows on the 14th and 15th of january at the southern theater in Minneapolis in collaboration with two local dancers: Leah Nelson and Kenna Sarge.
For more information go to:
Southern Theater
1420 Washington Ave So
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Citypages Minneapolis writes:
Brilliant curatorial vision means seeing how disparate artists from far-flung corners of the globe could produce something terrific together, then facilitatating the logistics and cross-cultural information necessary to make it happen. That’s exactly what Southern Theater music curator Kate Nordstrom, working with dance curator Laurie van Wieren, accomplished between the musicians of Burkina Electric and Minneapolis-based dancers Leah Nelson and Kenna Sarge. Contemporary-music mavens will certainly recognize the group’s composer-drummer-electronicist, Lukas Ligeti (New York). The group also features guitarist Wende K. Blass; electronicist VJ Pyrolator (Germany); singer Maï Lingani (Burkina Faso, Africa); and dance artists Vicky and Zoko Zoko. Area African-American dance artists Nelson and Sarge, dynamos with musicality to burn, join them for performances that will certainly heat up the Southern as electronic dance music becomes infected with sounds and rhythms rarely heard even in much of Africa. These include ancient rhythms of Sahel such as the Mossi people’s Quaraba and Quenega, traditional instruments and found sounds recorded in Burkina Faso, and the group’s inimitable rhythmic collisions.
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Press Listen what Kevin Laskey wrote in his article about the Top 15 “Downtown Music” Albums of 2010:
Burkina Electric
Paspanga
What happens when an Austrian percussionist and a German DJ get a grant to go to Burkina Faso? They start a band with local musicians and create what just might be the most infectious dance music to reach the western hemisphere.
The members of Burkina Electric have since relocated to New York City and the music has begun to incorporate the sonic weirdness of the contemporary classical scene there. Traditional west African singing rubs alongside heavy techno pulses and glitchy noises from The Age of Adz, while drummer Lukas Ligeti layers on complex rhythmic cycles to set up a mercurial groove. You won’t find dance music more ecstatic than this, nor as sonically rich either. Sneak it on at the next party you go to and just watch the vibe light up.
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Live Tony Award-nominated choreographer Karole Armitage will appear at the Abrons Arts Center at 8pm on Monday, January 10.
The event, entitled Think Africa, will feature The Armitage Gone! Dance company performing an excerpt from Armitage’s ballet, “Itutu,” a collaborative work with West African electronica band Burkina Electric that features set and fabric design by Philip Taaffe.
In addition, Armitage will engage in a salon-style dialogue with Dance Theater of Harlem’s Virginia Johnson, composer and Burkina Electric bandleader Lukas Ligeti, and singer/dancer Mai Lingani on the importance of the African aesthetic.
Armitage received a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nomination for the Broadway revival of Hair, and received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Passing Strange.
For more information, visit abronsartscenter.
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Press In his blog “Music and Global Affairs” selects Robert Nolan our album “Paspanga” as no.8 in “Best in Global Music”.
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Press The blog “Echo & Boom” lists us in their article: “Topnotch Stuff As A General Rule: Some Music I Enjoyed In 2010″
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Press This blog lists us under the category: 5 New African Bands That Ruled 2010.
Here is what they wrote:
“With its original mix of electronics and African sounds, Burkina Electric is led by Austrian-born Lukas Ligeti, a talented drummer and composer — and son of the well-known classical and film composer Gyorgy Ligeti. The younger Ligeti has brought together several singers and dancers from Burkina Faso, led by singer Mai Lingani, along with African guitarist Wende Blass and German electronic artist/mixer Pyrolator. The result is a truly original sound; it’s unlike any other African music. Mostly based in New York City, the band performed a memorable concert this summer in the rain at Central Park Summerstage, and is now working on a follow-up to this excellent debut.”