Angola 2 -- El V Speaks

El V-- not Foxessa --here:

[ ".... excitement abounds . . . the product of a *lot* of work has come to fruition . . .

HIP DEEP ANGOLA PART TWO is up, with the unwieldy title of 21st CENTURY URBAN ANGOLA: KIZOMBA, KUDURO, AFRO-HOUSE, AND BEYOND. 

Of the four shows I am producing about Angola this fall (the last two will air in November), this is the densest. Besides the music, it has twelve different speaking voices, and it's entirely about African electronic music. In particular, much of it is at 140 BPM.

If you cut & paste into your address bar -- for some reason the platforms el V has to work with on this side won't hyperlink this one -- you can hear it right now at:

http://soundcloud.com/afropop-worldwide/hip-deep-angola-part-2-kuduro

And feel free to leave a comment.

It will be available on the HIP DEEP website at www.afropop.org. In New York, it will air on WNYE 91.5 FM in New York Saturday at 11 p.m. and Monday at noon.

Meanwhile, HIP DEEP ANGOLA 1 is still up and available for listening at

http://soundcloud.com/afropop-worldwide/hip-deep-angola-part-1-music

Press release follows:

HIP DEEP ANGOLA 2: 21^st CENTURY URBAN ANGOLA: KIZOMBA, KUDURO, AFRO-HOUSE AND BEYOND (distribution: September 27) takes us to the street in Angola’s dense, smoggy, oil-booming capital city of Luanda. Peace came to Angola in 2002 after forty-two years of war, and now everything is different.

The postwar generation of the last ten years communicates via text-messaging and electronic music. Producer Ned Sublette checks out kuduro (literally, hard-ass) – the high-energy electronic dance music that dominates Luanda today, as well as the the zouk-like couple dance of kizomba, a phenomenon that began in the 80s and still packs in dancers to Luanda clubs, and, farther underground, the computer-driven style called Afro-House.

We’ll talk to musicologist Stefanie Alisch, who’s been studying the world of kuduro in Luanda this year; historian Marissa Moorman about kizomba and the early days of kuduro; transgendered whirlwind dancer and rap diva Titica, the first out-gay African music star; 21-year-old superstar Cabo Snoop, whose “Windeck” became a hit via Bluetooth; Coréon Dú, executive producer of the weekly kuduro TV program Sempre a Subir; the charismatic, comic hosts of that program, the duo of Os Namayer, better known as Príncipe Ouro Negro e Presidente Gasolina (Prince Black Gold and President Gasoline); DJ Satelite, a leading beatmaker and producer on the Afro-House scene; Angolan music historian and critic Jomo Fortunato; and Jó Kindanje, the Angolan writer who published the first book on kuduro. " ]