08-04-2024, 12:00 AM
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#1212 (permalink)
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Music Addict
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: Germany
Posts: 242
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The enchanted landscapes in the border region of the Italian north-east literally invite conspiratorial togetherness - also musically. This "big band" is a collaboration between the "magicians of dub and the masters of big band ska-jazz", as they describe it themselves. "In perfect symbiosis", they bring the Jamaican ska and reggae sounds into an orchestral modernity.
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Wicked Dub Division meets North East Ska Jazz Orchestra - Mama (Italy)
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Cajun music comes from southern Louisiana, and is a juicy gumbo of French folk music, Caribbean music, Scots-Irish Appalachian music, Native American music, Jewish-German music, and the Blues. Typically, Cajun music will mostly feature guitar, fiddle, accordion, and triangle, yet will also have some various other folk instruments thrown in for flavor.
The whole story goes all the way back to 18th century Canada when the Acadian people of eastern Canada were expelled by the British after the French and Indian War. As far as the British were concerned, the Acadians had two major strikes against them. First, they were French, and second, they were Catholic. Both of these characteristics made them terribly untrustworthy, so the British (and Puritan New Englanders) kicked them out. Over 11,000 Acadians were forcibly expelled from their homeland, and many of them migrated all the way around to Louisiana, which was still under Spanish rule at the time. The migrant Acadians specifically sought to settle anywhere that was both Catholic and allied with the French, so the isolation of southern Louisiana was perfect for them.
The Balfa Brothers first played together at family gatherings in the 1940s.
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The Balfa Brothers - Two Step de lanse a paille (USA)
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