City Beat: “One World Weekend”

This article originally appeared in Cincinnati’s “City Beat.”

Spend the night as a globetrotter as A View of the World takes guests progressively around the world in a musical, dining, and cultural event. The Chicago Afrobeat Project will be playing jazz-infused afrobeat music all night long, as well as various DJs. Also check out an Asian inspired fashion show, gallery strolls, and appetizers from each hemisphere. One free drink included with ticket, cash bars also available. Only 1,000 tickets available in advance. $35.

Planet Jackson Hole Online: “Original Tunes right up JH music fan’s alley”

This article originally appeared on the Planet Jackson Hole Online.

Recipe for Afrobeat: Get the biggest mixing pot you can find and throw in Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, funk, polyrhythmic percussion, political rhymes. Stir and bring it a roiling boil.

Afrobeat’s best-known artist may have been the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, but Afrobeat bands are popping up all over the U.S., giving props and respect to the genre decades later. Two of them will perform in the area this week: Albino and Chicago Afrobeat Project.

Midwest weekend tour…

We’re starting a 4 show run this weekend at the Note in Chicago for “I Love House Music Wednesdays”–1565 North Milwaukee Ave., 12 to 1am with Kennedy Octane.  It’s our 1st time there since it was our long-time running “1st Beat” spot (which has now moved to Kinetic Playground as you may know).  Thursday is a return to Champaign, IL at Cowboy Monkey, followed by a gig in Peoria on Friday (Universal Rhythm Assembly) and a show at Spin Nightclub in Indianapolis on Saturday, June 23rd.  Presales of our 2nd album are happening now at a discounted cost of $12/CD (it’ll be $15 when it comes out).