Nettle: Music for a Nu World

Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009

Pre-Concert Talk "Nettles, Neighbors, and Nu World Music"
by Wayne Marshall, Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology,
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
7:00-7:45 PM

Synopsis: PN Brandeis and the American Islamic Congress co-sponsored a concert by Nettle: a geography defying project founded by DJ Rupture involving 4 musicians and a video artist playing North African folksong, free improvisation, and classical Arabic composition mixed with digital experimentalism and urban beat production. The Barcelona-based project unites musicians from three continents: Moroccan violin virtuoso Abdel Rahal, Scottish cellist Jenny Jones, American producer Jace Clayton (aka Rupture), and Moroccan gnawa musician Khalid Bennaji on guembri and vocals (in Arabic and Tamazight). The group melds superficially disparate genres & instrumentation into textured music to create a new sense of common-place.

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