Hey Michelle,

Welcome to Utah. The best thing you can do is get on over to Yahoo Groups and join UtahKind:

groups.yahoo.com/group/utahkind/

There you'll find a bunch of cool people who love music, trade shows, and generally have a great time.

John

Michelle,

Come out to Musefest on Saturday April 15th at the re-opening of the Great Saltair and see Kan'Nal and Zilla...

www.muse-fest.com to read bios and hear their music.

Have you had a chance to see these guys yet?

Sincerely,
Noiz23

ALBINO! Afrobeat band will be tour thru SLC on
Thurs. Aug 24th.
@ the Urban Lounge
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Winners of the 2005 SF Music Award for Best World Music Band, ALBINO! is a Berkeley, California-based, 12-piece afrobeat ensemble that honors the fiery legacy of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. Melding tightly crafted arrangements and nuances of jazz harmonies with propulsive, high-energy grooves, Albino has established itself as the premier afrobeat ensemble on the West Coast.
The diverse line-up includes former members/contributors of SPEARHEAD, HAMSA LILA, APHRODESIA, and MUTAYTOR.
Members and contributors hail from Ghana, Togo, Cuba, and the US. Our special guests have included members from the original Fela Kuti Africa 70 band, Jessica Lurie (Living Daylights), Eric Levy (Garage Majal), and Carlos Washington (KDTU, Giant People) to name a few.
ALBINO! has extensively toured the West Coast and Midwest over the past
year and a half with just over 70 shows under our belt from last year alone. Festivals last year included Sacramento Heritage Festival (headlined main stage), Shining stars music fest (OR), Sierra Nevada World Music Fest, to name a few.
ALBINO! has just released a "Live at the Boom Boom Room" EP and are working on our studio album to be released in this fall.

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*Video clip of a recent show:
www.jumpcut.com/media/flash/jump.swf

*To read a recent review of a live show with Rebirth Brass Band go to:
www.theowlmag.com/livereviews.asp


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2005 SF Weekly Music Awards Guide
World Music
Albino

"Fusing classic Afrobeat, Latin funk, and acid jazz, the dozen-plus
members of Berkeley's Albino offer a torrent of hard-grooving jams
designed to make Mojito-gulping weekenders shimmy right out of their
low-rise jeans. The sound is aggressive and brassy, informed by world
fusion artists like Fela Kuti and Zimbabwe's Thomas Mapfumo, and brought
up to date with a mash of spacey global inflections (think of Herbie's
Headhunters shanghaied in West Africa, and you'll be up to speed). The
ass-inspiriting percussive engine comes from a rhythm section of local
all-stars, including singer/percussionist Kokou Soglo Katamani, drummer
Michael Pinkham, bassist Kevin "Bam Bam" Blair, keyboardist Bob
Crawford, percussionists Trevino Leon and Gameli K. Ladzekpo, and dancer
Kim Agnew. Together, they form rhythms based in the West African Ewe
tradition (which holds at its heart the inseparable union of drumming
and dance) colored with Afro-Cuban structures. Atop the band's rhythmic
maelstrom ride tightly figured five-part horn lines directed by
founder/tenor player Nathan Endsley. His section enlists the formidable
talent of Seattle jazz trombonist "T-Bone" Charlie Wilson and a snarling
dual baritone-sax yawp from Jonathan Hoops (featured soloist for Burning
Man sensation the Mutaytor) and Michael Bello. Though the 2-year-old
band is still something of a pup on the scene, Albino's members' résumés
include experience in local heavies from every niche of the city's
musical spectrum, including Starvin Like Marvin, Monkey Knife Fight,
Spearhead, CK Ladzekpo, and Hamsa Lila. This is world music that lives
up to the name."