The ultimate feast for cosmopolitan music gourmets: in the 70s, the eleven-member "Orchestre" from Benin shared the stage with such stars as Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, and landed numerous hits in West Africa with their psychedelicized Afrobeat, hardcore Seventies-Funk and Latin Brass.<\/p>\n
From 1970-1983, they recorded over 500 songs. But: until recently nobody in Europe knew who they were. When a handful of Rare-Groove Diggers unearthed the treasure and released several compilations of their huge output columnists and the Avant-garde hip-hop scene finally woke up. Now the orchestra can finally be heard in Europe. About their sold-out gig at London’s Barbican, the "Guardian" had this no-frills comment: "It’s music you cannot ignore".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The ultimate feast for cosmopolitan music gourmets: in the 70s, the eleven-member "Orchestre" from Benin shared the stage with such stars as Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, and landed numerous hits in West Africa with their psychedelicized Afrobeat, hardcore Seventies-Funk and Latin Brass. From 1970-1983, they recorded over 500 songs. But: until recently nobody in Europe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n