Vintage Voudou Blackout Listening Session
Sunday
March 1
19:00— 00:00
— Listening sesh —
Doors: 19.00. Tickets: 8,-
19.00 Warmup cocktails, Blackout session 20.00
Blackout Session:
LP listening session in the dark hosted by Vintage Voudou
LP: Illaiyaraaja: Agni Natchatram, India 1988
Listening in the dark is a fantastic, deep experience. Join us to listen to the music of the 1988 film Agni Natchatram, a masterpiece of Tamil film music that combines synth pop, street thugs, Carnatic experimentation and aerobics. Introduction with a selection of other Illaiyaraaja tracks by Edo Bouman. Carnatic Cocktails by weird mixmaster Mark Henning’s Cocktail Bingo Bar.
De Nieuwe Anita Blackout Session
The formula is simple: let’s sit down and listen to a whole LP back to back in the pitch dark. Edo Bouman of Vintage Voudou selects and introduces unknown, underexposed and forgotten masterpieces from all around the world.
Bingo Cocktail Bar
Weirdmix Master Mark Henning leaves the beaten path, and takes himself and you into new territories, cooking up for each listening session new tastes & smells, cocktails that he and you have never encountered before.
Composer: Ilaiyaraaja
If you ask us: in Indian film music Illaiyaraaja has no match. Strangely, outside of his home state Tamil Nadu, hardly anybody knows his intricate, enchanting and border-defying work. In his music Illaiyaraaja endlessly experiments and challenges himself. Composing pop songs in classical Indian raga format, incorporating water sounds, birds or unusual long silences. His arrangements show an unusual mastery over Western harmony, allowing him to add all kinds of subtle emotional shades. Still his songs are catchy, addictive and seem to flow naturally and without effort.
LP: Agni Natchatram, 1988
In this first Edition of the Blackout Session in De Nieuwe Anita we play the soundtrack to the Tamil film _Agni Natchatram_. The film has it all: family feuds, synth pop, street thugs, cheesy aerobics, and Carnatic experimentation. When released in 1988 the film caused a stir, it’s flashy cinematography and slick MTV style video clips introduced a whole new aesthetic toTamil cinema. Ilaiyaraaja matched the modern, urban visuals with a soundtrack full of synths and drum computers. Yet, at the same time he composed the songs in the strict forms of Indian classical music, and one song he used only percussion. The result is a both flashy and deep soundtrack, that casts 1980s synthesizers, slap bass and drum computers in the ancient forms of classical Carnatic music, and features many top singers of Tamil Cinema.
