fbpx

Me Gusta presents Habibi Funk

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

After a sell-out show at YES and an incredible Boiler room set at Warehouse Project’s Repercussion, we are super happy to present Habibi Funk at Band on the Wall as part of manchester jazz festival (mjf2023).

Come along with your loved ones and embark on a musical journey, guiding you through a multitude of genres such Arabic zouk (a genre originating from the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe) like Mallek Mohamed’s music, Algerian coladera (a popular musical style from the Cape Verdean islands) or Lebanese AOR.

Habibi Funk is dedicated to re-releasing a style of music that historically never existed as a musical genre. “We use the term to describe a certain sound that we like from the countries of the Arab world“. The songs chosen were created in places quite far from another and under very different circumstances. Some were written and recorded during war times, others in exile. Despite the differences, there is a musical connection between them. Essentially, they are interested in the musical endeavors, in which artists from the Arab world mixed local and regional influences with musical interests that came from outside of the region.

Date: friday 26 may

Time: 11:00 pm - 1:00 am

Price: £10 (first release tickets) / £15 (second release tickets)

Buy Tickets

Ibibio Sound Machine

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

Tickets on sale Friday 3 March at 10am

Fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk and disco and modern post-punk and electro.

Ibibio Sound Machine were founded by Williams and Max Grunhard in 2013 with the idea of combining the unique sound of the Ibibio language that Eno spoke growing up in Nigeria with both traditional West African and more modern electronic musical elements. They linked up with Merge Records in 2017 for Uyai and returned with Doko Mien in 2019.

Western pop fans will hear echoes of Michael Jackson, James Brown, Gary Numan, Prince, Talking Heads and, yes, Miami Sound Machine; African music devotees will recognize threads of juju and Afrobeat from Nigeria, high life from Ghana and makossa from Cameroon.” —New York Times

a groove-driven melange of styles which also takes in gospel, funk, post- and electro-punk and contemporary R&B, alongside African polyrhythms, horns and guitar” —Guardian

No one is crushing different sound worlds together quite as compellingly as them right now.” —DJ Mag

photo credit Jody Hartley

Date: friday 26 may

Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Price: £22

Buy Tickets

Buena Vista Social Club’s Eliades Ochoa

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

Doors 7.30pm

Cuban sonero Eliades Ochoa became world famous with Buena Vista Social Club®. On the iconic self-titled debut album, Ochoa sings the classic song Chan Chan. But long before the Buena Vista hype, Ochoa already enjoyed great fame among lovers of Cuban music. He has been performing for decades with his backing band Cuarteto Patria and is one of the best guitarists of his generation.

His main musical styles are guajira, guaracha and bolero. With his trademark cowboy hat and black clothes, he has also been called the “Cuban Johnny Cash.” Ochoa has various gold and platinum albums to his name and has received three American Grammy Award nominations. He has also worked with Bob Dylan, Manu Dibango and Bløf, among others.

Eliades Ochoa is back this Spring with a whole set of new music, being released in May 2023. Expect nostalgia, with a contemporary twist.

This event is promoted by manchester jazz festival and Band on the Wall and is part of mjf2023

Date: sunday 28 may

Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Price: £35

Buy Tickets

Hannabiell & The Midnight Blue Collective

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

Doors 3.30pm

Hannabiell Sanders bass trombone, voice, djembe, conga, percussion / Thomas Dixon tenor saxophone / Luke Gaul guitar / Nuga Dapo keyboards / Stan Woodward bass guitar /King David Ike-Elechi drums / Yilis Suriel djembe, dundun, percussion / Juan Manuel Loaiza conga, timbales, percussion

Led by multi-instrumentalist Hannabiell Sanders, this high energy ensemble is nothing less than exhilarating as it fuses together Afro-Caribbean & Latin percussion, Jazz, Afro-beat, and Funk to create their unique sound. The music created from this fusion is an organic blend of powerful and upbeat drums, brass, vocal chants, and mbira compositions which not only produces an invigorating party atmosphere, it also summons audience participation. This fusion they call “Afro-psychedelic funk.”

Award-winning Hannabiell & the Midnight Blue Collective, have created a buzz, performing at venues such as the Southbank Centre in London, Sage Gateshead, The Cluny Newcastle, the Hare & Hounds-Birmingham, Jazz Refreshed-London, The Hagglers Corner-and many more.

Presented in partnership with Jazz North as part of the northern line programme

This event is promoted by manchester jazz festival and Band on the Wall and is part of mjf2023

Date: sunday 28 may

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Price: £12

Buy Tickets

Julie Campiche Quartet

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

Doors 12.30pm

Julie Campiche harp / Leo Fumagalli saxophone / Manu Hagmann double bass / Clemens Kuratle drums

Harpist Julie Campiche’s work is an on-going process of musical innovation. Through research and experimentation she has developed the use of electronic effects that enhance the scope of her improvisational work. She has a very personnel technique and her own musical language.

Julie introduced her harp into the world of jazz and contemporary music in a very organic way. She now performs in numerous European clubs and festivals on a regular basis. Through her innate curiosity and desire for new experiences she plays with groups that have diverse instrumentation and aesthetics. Be it theatre or contemporary performance, octets or duos, compositions or free-style improvisation, Julie infuses her music with an urgent fragility.

This event is promoted by manchester jazz festival and Band on the Wall and is part of mjf2023

Photo credit Sophie Le Meillour


You might also like…

Alina Bzhezhinska’s HipHarp Collective ft. Tony Kofi
Tuesday 23 May, 7.30pm
NQ Jazz at The Yard

Alina Bzhezhinska is a one-woman powerhouse, on a mission to bring the harp to the fore of contemporary sound.

Tickets £14 full, £10 students (advance) – more info


 

Date: sunday 28 may

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm

Price: £12

Buy Tickets

Marcus Joseph + Romarna Campbell Trio + Robocobra Quartet + Dance Regular with EVM 128 & Szajna

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

A triple bill of the freshest jazz talent from across the UK regions, with a late-night DJ set from Dance Regular with EVM 128 & Szajna

Marcus Joseph

Marcus Joseph alto saxophone / Lorenze Okello Osenger keyboards / James Wade-Sired trombone / Wayne Matthews bass / Edward Wakili Hick drums

For those that haven’t experienced a Marcus Joseph live performance, get ready for energy! Marcus, a talented alto saxophonist, has created a heavy groove-driven show that is loaded with funky breaks and wicked rhythm sections that make you wanna get up and dance. His jazz takes influences from his Jamaican heritage and connects with the audience through hip-hop and spoken word affirmations that Marcus weaves through the music, making it a seriously engaging show for the audience. A celebrated young performer with lots of talent and creative energy.

Marcus, with roots in Leicester and the East Midlands, was recently part of the 2022 Take 5 programme with Serious. He is also part of the Jerwood Jazz Encounters programme for 2023, which sees him exploring the limitless possibilities of XR technologies within music, presenting his Jazz Maze project at Sage Gateshead in September 2023. Alongside showcasing at SXSW in Austin Texas, it’s going to be one busy year for this talented young artist.

Romarna Campbell Trio

Romarna Campbell drums / Cenk Esen piano / Mutale Chashi bass

Drummer, producer and composer Romarna Campbell performs music from her highly anticipated new album, set for release in 2023.

Romarna’s storytelling begins with the drums. The nomadic spirit of this exciting artist from Birmingham’s bustling jazz scene lives in her jazz and hip hop-infused music. Her irrepressible energy can be heard on Inherently Political, a super-charged sonic assault on racism that immediately won favour with Jazz FM’s Deb Grant and Tony Minvielle and had her crowned by Jamz Supernova as ‘New Name of the Week’.

Her independently-released kaleidoscopic debut 25 Songs For My 25th Birthday features Soweto Kinch, Tomeka Reid, Sumi Tonooka and Lady Sanity and takes us deeper into her world of resonant frequencies and conscious vibrations. Having honed her craft with Berklee College of Music, Tomorrow’s Warriors and the Notebenders, Romarna stands on the shoulders of giants and is drawing inspiration from the view as she beats a path forward that is very much her own.

Robocobra Quartet

Chris Ryan drums, vocals / Tom Taboroi soprano saxophone / Peter Howard alto & tenor saxophone / Nathan Rodgers bass guitar

A collective of musicians from Belfast inspired by Stravinsky and Dead Kennedys in equal measures. Meticulous arrangements and on-the-spot improvisations hang on every sung, spoken or shouted word, propelling the music forward and concocting a sound that is groove-driven but cerebral, invoking the likes of Fugazi, Talking Heads and contemporaries such as Black Midi, Squid and BadBadNotGood.

Robocobra Quartet’s unmatched live performances channel-hop from moments of joy and playfulness to periods of intense fury, earning them invitations to festivals across the world, including Montreux Jazz Festival, SXSW and Latitude Festival.

Their self-produced Northern Ireland Music Prize-nominated album Plays Hard To Get pulls the audience like a rag doll through its nine tracks of improvisation-soaked post-punk. Featuring oblique production nods to influences as disparate as modern classical music and 60s pop, the album track Short Stretch of Day was used in the HBO documentary Game of Thrones: The Last Watch.

Date: saturday 27 may

Time: 9:00 pm - 12:00 am

Price: £10

Buy Tickets

Rosie Frater-Taylor

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

Doors 3pm

With a clear sense of purpose, 23-year-old singer, songwriter & guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor blurs the lines between jazz, folk, pop & soul. Think Joni Mitchell meets George Benson, Lewis Taylor teams up with Emily King or a female version of John Mayer!

Rosie’s critically-acclaimed 2nd album Bloom (2021) was nominated at Gilles Peterson’s WorldWide Awards, named Jazz FM ‘Album Of The Week’ and made KCRW’s ‘Albums Of The Year’ list. Bloom accumulated over 2m streams, catching the attention of the likes of Jamie Cullum, Gilles Peterson, Jordan Rakei, Nitin Sawhney, Snarky Puppy’s Michael League, Blue Note’s Don Was, with Complex Magazine, Bandcamp, Jazz re:freshed and global platform Pickup Music championing the young musician too.

In 2022, Rosie played over 60 shows across Europe, including opening for legendary singer Kurt Elling and playing Gilles Peterson’s WorldWide Awards and We Out Here on the main stage.”An artist I’ve fallen in love with, musically‘ Gilles Peterson – BBC6 MusicThe native Londoner started playing drums at the age of 8, picking up the guitar and ukulele soon after. She spent her early teens discovering her musician parents’ record collection, an eclectic mix of artists: Zero 7, Tania Maria, Seal, Pat Metheny and more. She began exploring her own love of songwriting, jazz and alternative harmony studying at both the Roundhouse and Royal Academy Of Music.

Partial to a DIY-slant, Rosie set off laying out multi-layered guitar-based demos on Cubase at the age of 16. These would eventually become her self-produced debut album On My Mind (2018), a unique collection of songs which garnered praise from BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 1’s Abbie McCarthy, Becca Stevens “badass”, with Jazzwise Magazine hailing her “one to watch”.

Date: saturday 27 may

Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Price: £15

Buy Tickets

Mica Millar

Buy Tickets

Band on the Wall (main venue)

Releasing her debut album ‘Heaven Knows’ to critical review earlier this year, Mica Millar has quickly become one of the UK brightest new Soul stars, picking up Jazz FM’s prestigious Soul Act of The Year 2022 award alongside a nomination for Breakthrough Act of The Year and featuring on the front cover of the iconic Blues & Soul Magazine amidst an array of five star album and live reviews and national radio support.

Following two monumental album launch shows in September including a sold-out show at the capital’s prestigious Jazz Café and a special hometown performance filling out the iconic Albert Hall, Manchester, Mica has just announced her UK and European 2023 tour.

Self-written, arranged and produced, Mica’s debut album Heaven Knows explores themes of human nature, spirituality, love, oppression, inequality and empowerment, drawing inspiration from a plethora of vintage soundscapes, most notably, soul, blues, gospel and jazz.

Date: thursday 25 may

Time: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Price: £22.50 advance

Buy Tickets