ANTHONY JOSEPH AND THE SPASM BAND @ THE VORTEX
RARE LONDON SHOW!
Thursday 10 September 2009
8.30pm
The Vortex Jazz Club
11 Gillet Square
London
N16 8AZ
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/
Few lecturers at London University can be as rowdily funky as Anthony Joseph. Backed by squawking free-jazz and supercharged percussion, the Trinidadian poet and academic struts, bawls and howls his way through his latest works – part Voodoo priest, part prize-fighter.
While he incorporates magic-realism in his work, there is also something of the modern urban Rimbaud about Anthony Joseph, who has artfully injected a keen visionary energy into the band's latest album 'Bird Head Son'.
'(Anthony Joseph)...comes across like a New Orleans preacher, loud, proud, rousing, over the sweat and the sin of the music. His delivery is somewhere between Martin Luther King Jnr and Jimi Hendrix, these incredibly vivid spiritual street stories that build and swell with the music' (Bob Baker Fish).
This is a very rare London date for the band on their 'Bird Head Son' tour which has seen them crossing continents and sharing stages with the likes of Seun Kuti's Egypt 80, Sun Ra Arkestra, and George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic.
Definitely not to be missed!
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