All tickets for this event purchased from Pioneer Works through Eventbrite will remain valid for the new date at LPR. They will be accepting refund requests through Tuesday, February 15, 2022 for anyone who is unable to attend.
Ata Kak
Ata Kak’s cassette Obaa Sima fell on deaf ears when it was self-released in Ghana and Canada in 1994. The music on the recording—an amalgam of highlife, Twi-language rap, funk and disco—is presented with the passion of a Prince record and the DIY-bedroom-recording lo-fi charm of early Chicago house music. The astute self-taught song craft and visionary blend of sounds and rhythms has made the album a left-field cult favorite among adventurous listeners worldwide. Awesome Tapes From Africa founder Brian Shimkovitz found the tape in 2002 in Cape Coast, Ghana—one of only a few ever pressed—and later made it the inaugural post the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog. Hundreds of thousands of downloads YouTube views, music video tributes and remixes, as well as years of mystery regarding Ata Kak’s whereabouts, culminate in this remastered release featuring rare photos and the full back story of one of the internet age’s most enigmatic musicians. A few years ago, after the reissue of Obaa Sima reached fans worldwide and garnered critical acclaim from publications of all kinds, Yaw Atta-Owusu and a small group of London-based musicians began performing Obaa Sima live. Ata Kak became a live concert experience for the first time. Soon Ata Kak and his band had played nearly every major European music festival a band could dream of, including Sonar, Glastonbury, Field Day and Dimensions. From Russia to Italy to Iceland to Israel to Morocco.
DJ YOKUBARI
Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a Japanese born mixed race (Japanese/Indian Myanmar) multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, York. In addition to being a founding member of the experimental rock group Black Dice (1997-2004), Bharoocha has played in many bands who have toured the world, such as Pixeltan (DFA Records), Soft Circle, IIII, Nick Zinner’s 41 Strings, and Boredoms. He has the lead music director in pieces that were performed at prestigious venues such as the Sydney Opera House (Australia), ICP (London), Royal Festival Hall (London), Rockefeller Plaza (NY) MoMA (NY) and MoCA (LA) to name a few. Bharoocha is known for the large-scale drum centric performances he directed with the Japanese experimental rock group Boredoms called the BOADRUM series. BOADRUM performances had up to 77-100 drummers performing with the band at site specific locations around the world (2007-2015). Bharoocha also performed as a touring member of Boredoms at the Barbican (London), the Ruhrtriennale (Halde Haniel Germany), and several All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals (London/Minehead/Tokyo). Bharoocha has collaborated on many site specific music performances with esteemed artists such as Doug Aitken, Ikue Mori, Yoshihide Otomo, Yoshimio, and Eye Yamataka to name a few. Bharoocha proudly endorses Sensory Percussion drum sensors and Morphbeats instruments. His latest band, Kill Alters, has a new album out on Hausu Mountain. Bharoocha’s latest club oriented solo project called YOKUBARI has upcoming releases on Chinabot & Internet and Weed.