Rotorua Pt. 3 - Jambalaya Festival & The Lads
Trip Start
Oct 11, 2007
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9
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Trip End
Ongoing
Rotorua,
New Zealand
Friday, January 4, 2008
http://www.myspace.com/sonveneno
Son Veneno are a band mixing styles as diverse as jazz, funk, reggae, hip hop and rock with a healthy dose of Latin flavour on their self titled debut album SON VENENO.
A kind of technicolor cross between the Buena Vista Social Club, Gorillaz, Ozomatli and Eminem, SON VENENO is a record that crosses genres and styles with regular ferocity, giving you tough hip hop one minute, laid back calypso the next and funky Cuban vibes right after that.
http://www.myspace.com/bbbordello
Hailing from the slums and ghettos of Auckland (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello band is a highly theatrical musical group specialising in music of Eastern European, Gypsy and Jewish flavour, along with some Western European influences. With music ranging from old to new, originals to standards, vocal to instrumental; they are remarkable in their ability to get everyone up and dancing, regardless of age, musical taste, or level of drunkenness. Benka's globetrotting voice sings in a wide variety of languages, with lyrics in Russian, Greek, Serbian, Romani, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, English and more. While developing a furiously expanding following in Auckland, the band has prepared itself to encroach on more distant surroundings. If references are necessary, they sound like Tom Waits, Shane McGowan and Franz Kafka drunk too much vodka and thought they were in 1950's Yugoslavia.
