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Trans Global Underground: "Yes Boss Food Corner" |
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Words come to mind when listening to this collective of musicians-
'worldly', 'different', 'funky', and 'innovative', for example.
Transglobal Underground are the beast with the everchanging face(s), bound
together by a frustration with the contrived, homogenized condition of
modern dance music, and determined to set it free by celebrating
diversity, both musical and personal.
Most notably, the TGU sound is characterized by the droning mysticism of
Eastern musics, particularly Indian, mixed against heavily grooving
Pan-African drumming, guitars, keys, raps, and sound effects. The effect
is a shot in the arm of modern music, and the occasionally fractious
musical culture(s) of North America.
America-the-melting-pot commonly prizes identity and history and
culture, which is understandable. In a melting pot,
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people often need to
culturally self-identify to maintain some sense of historical continuum
and respect for their past.
The unfortunate effect is that we get
'groups'- Indian, Celtic, Lebanese, pick your -ese... birds of a common
musicocultural feather are so busy finding each other and preserving or
expanding upon their own traditions, that it never occurs to explore new
ground by mixing their musical blood with that of another culture, or two,
or five. This deliberate experiment in submission to the collective
intuition is the experience upon which the ethic and music of TGU are
based, along with a conviction that this music will look forward, not
back.
This is music for the whole world to dance to, and hear something
familiar. TGU have clearly figured out that you don't annihilate a flavor
of ice cream by stacking another above or below- it's the new flavor
that's made that counts. Go try it.
By Kevan Corbett, CanEHdian.com
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