ATTWENGER, KALI MUTSA, and SAUTI SOL are all featured in 2012 SXSW showcases, now available.
The Austrian duo Attwenger turn Upper Austrian folk music and wry local wisdom into madcap backbeats and funky, flaring accordion. It’s The Cramps parachuting into a mountain village street fest for a punk spree, or The Pogues punning in Alpine slang to dancefloor-friendly samples. It’s folk trip-hop, psychedelic and feral polka. more
Like Venus rising from the waves, the cat-eyed whirlwind of a woman rose from the magical earth and rarified air of myth-filled Chilean valley nearly a century ago. Daughter of Roma wanderers, protégée of the last remnants of the Incan aristocracy, holder of a secret dream, she gyrated across silver screens and dusty stages, chanting freedom and seduction with a polychrome wink. more
“Africans are put in a box, always squeezed into one category,” exclaims Willis Chimano, sax player and vocalist in Sauti Sol, “but we refuse to stay there.” The quartet can rock jangling guitars, blast the horns, croon in the sweetest harmony, and bring the Afrofunk with wry defiance and pop-friendly zeal. more
