Maysles Cinema Presents

Summer of Music: Harlem Outdoor Music and Screening Series

100% Free

Brought to you with support from Target

Wednesday, July 6th, 7:00pm
Reel Harlem:
10th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival
Marcus Garvey Park
(Richard Rodgers Amphitheater: Behind Pelham Fritz Recreation Center,
Mt. Morris Park West at 122nd St.)

7:00pm Music: DJ Laylo & Eli Efi
(Hip Hop, Classics and Soul)

8:30pm Screening:
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer
Charlie Ahearn, 2011, 74 min.

In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style that would initiate an unstoppable worldwide phenomenon. Ahearn, director of the classic Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had a definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking Puma Suedes, Kangols, and pin-striped Jordaches in Times Square or all-city, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of stories behind them, and Ahearn gives voice to these images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, Bobbito Garcia and more.

Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer Trailer

Materia escrita por: Rodrigo Mendonça

Copa do Mundo, mais que uma competição!

União, aperto de mãos entre países que não se comunicam e o valor de ver o mundo com os olhos voltados para a África certamente foi o que inspirou o selo italiano Nomadic Wax a produzir uma faixa com 15 Mc’s de 13 países rimando sobre este evento mundial, o Brasil ficou muito bem representado com a participação do rapper Eli Efi. Leia Mais Aqui.

Estamos de volta com boas noticias. Os guerreiros de fé continuam se unindo. Dessa vez o resultado foi uma musica inedita chamada “Copa do Mundo” com a participação de 15 MCs de  varios cantos do mundo incluindo Ghana, Togo, Italia, Africa do Sul, Marrocos,  EUA, Senegal, Trinidad-Tobago, Chile, Hadji B Senegal, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Burkina Faso. Mais uma vez tive a honra de representar o BRASIL. Vamo baixar! Vamos torcer!

International media production company Nomadic Wax (African Underground/Democracy in Dakar) has teamed up with Genoa, Italy’s DJ Nio, Brooklyn’s Funk Nouveau, Blackler Mastering and producer Eliot Leigh to create a one-of-a-kind World Cup-inspired transnational hip-hop collaboration available for free download beginning June 8th 2010. The 12 minute multi-national musical melange features rappers hailing from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

Each of the fifteen international rappers artists featured on the track recorded their verses independently in their own country sending the finished vocal files to Brooklyn New York to be mixed and mastered. “This is the kind of global recording collaboration that could not have even been imagined even ten years ago” said Nomadic Wax Creative Director Magee McIlvaine. “The fact that we can get fifteen of the world’s most talented Emcees to collaborate in this way is incredible. This is just the kind of transnational synergy that get me excited about the potential for international hip-hop to have a major impact on the world stage.”

“World Cup” is the first of it’s kind and explores the complexities and controversies of this historic event: the first ever World Cup to be held in Africa. According to The Economist, “South Africans themselves are grumbling about the eye-wateringly large amounts of money that FIFA…is poised to make, even though South Africa is bearing most of the cost.” Legendary South African emcee Emile YX (Black Noise Crew) used the ‘World Cup’ track as an opportunity to respond to what is currently happening in his hometown of Cape Town, rapping “We’ll foot the bill just so they can foot the ball.” Emile and 15 other artists from a range of nations, including Italy, Brazil, South Africa, Morocco, and Trinidad-Tobago, among others, rap their verses in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Arabic and explore many of the controversies, benefits, and pitfalls of the historic 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The track was mixed by Eliot Leigh of Funk Nouveau and mastered by Kevin Blackler at Blackler Mastering.

For interviews, media inquiries, or for information about other projects, please contact Nomadic Wax via Ben Herson at (917) 225-8472 or ben@nomadicwax.com, or Magee McIlvane at (301) 467 6406 or magee@nomadicwax.com.

About Nomadic Wax – Nomadic Wax is a fair-trade international record label and production company dedicated to producing and promoting global urban music and media. For more information visit: www.nomadicwax.com.

About DJ Nio – DJ Nio, a.k.a. NioSiddharta, is a member of the Italian underground rap group Zero Plastica. He creates and mixes worldwide hip-hop and reggae music. For more information visit: www.zero-plastica.com.

About Funk Nouveau – Funk Nouveau is an explosive New York City based production duo currently working on a host of major label pop and hip-hop projects. Originally professional DJs, when not working on original songs, they can be found crafting dynamic, electro-influenced dance remixes. For more information visit: www.funknouveau.com. For more information about Eliot Leigh visit: www.eliotleigh.com.
About Blackler Mastering – Blackler Mastering is a state-of-the-art mastering house located in Brooklyn, NY founded by former Sony Music Studios mastering engineer Kevin Blackler. He has mastered such albums as Live by K’naan and featuring Mos Def and Prodigy’s Product of the 80’s. For more information visit: www.blacklermastering.com.

credits
released 08 June 2010
Emcees: M.O.A. (Ghana), Trinitro (Togo), Zero Plastica (Italy), Emile YX (South Africa), Alfaress (Morocco), Eli Efi (Brasil), Hired Gun (Usa), Eyewitness (Senegal), Metric Man (Trinidad-Tobago), Seo2 & Mc Nauck (Chile), Hadji B (Senegal), Outspoken (Zimbabwe), G.O.Man Ztrazik (Tunisia), Eyezon (South Africa), 7th Mic (Burkina Faso).
Concept: Magee McIlvaine (Nomadic Wax) and DJ Nio (Nomadic Wax)

Mixed by Eliot Leigh of Funk Nouveau and mastered by Kevin Blackler at Blackler Mastering.

Cover Design by: Nio (Nomadic Wax)
All rights reserved

International record label Nomadic Wax set to release Volume 1 of Diaspora: A Global Mixtape Movement

Nomadic Wax crests new heights with the highly anticipated release of their international mixtape project Diaspora.

Created as en effort to expose the world to global hip-hop and urban culture and facilitate cross cultural exchanges amongst international artists, the Diaspora project features a diverse vein of some of the world’s most talented MC’s, vocalists, DJ’s and producers. The mixtape will showcase urban music from around the globe, but with a twist. Each volume of the series will highlight a different producer from around the world, and a host emcees who donate 16 bars to the project.

Mixed by Philippino American DJ Boo of the Juggaknots, and produced by Benny Beats of the U.S., Volume 1 features upcoming talent from Africa, Europe, North America, and Latin America, each spitting a conscious 16 bars that showcase where they are from and what they represent.

http://www.diasporamixtape.com/

The Art of Lyrics – 1 Year Anniversary Show
Friday April 16th 8pm

THE ART OF LYRICS HAS BROUGHT NOTHING BUT TALENT, AND THIS MONTH IS NO
DIFFERENT! ON THE MIC WILL BE YOUR HOST RHINO (PEASANT PODIUM).

PERFORMANCES BY:

bREEZ BREWIN (JUGGAKNOTS),
SHABAAM SAHDEEQ,
RACK-LO (LO-LIFE),
MAZZI (SOUL PURPOSE),
ELI EFI (BRAZIL),
PHASE-1 (BUGNANAS)
sAV KILLS (GOLDCHAIN MILITARY)

LIVE PAINTING WILL BY MISS 163

AND WAX SPINNIN ALL NIGHT WILL BE
THE DUO OF FRED ONES AND DJ POLARITY.

SHOW STARTS AT 8:30PM DONT BE LATE!
$5 With Flyer/ $7 Without
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DJ Laylo @ Larry Lawrence Bar

Friday April 16th 11pm
Bday Celebration for the homie Jesus Gonzalez

DJ Laylo Spinning the best all night
Hip Hop, Latin, House, Reggae, and Soul

Live Performances

Dress Code: Be Yourself
Cover Charge: A Smile and It’s Free

Larry Lawrence Bar
295 Grand Street
bet. Havemeyer & Roebling
Williamsburg

Reporter Brasil Online

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Mais informações: http://www.quilombaque.org/

NYC

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010

6:00pm to 10:00pm

First Fridays!
KALALU: Celebrating Women’s History Month

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Friday, March 5th, 2010

7:00pm to 2:00am
The Bronx Loves Chile
A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

The Rebel Diaz Arts Collective

478 Austin Place, 2nd floor

Performing Live: Rebel Diaz, Red Clay, Flaco Navaja, Los Brujoz, A Alikes, DJ Laylo, Eli Efi, and many more

Suggested Donation: $10-$20

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BOSTON

March 6, 2010

8:30pm – 11:00pm

Estilo Hip Hop Screening

Followed by Q & A with

Director Loira Limbal and Featured Artist Eli Efi

Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall

Sponsored by: Afro-Latino Caucus, Brasil Initiative, La Alianza, Latino Caucus, Kennedy School Student Government

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HARTFORD

March 12, 2009
9:00pm to 12:00 am
Take Back the Mic: All Female Hip Hop Showcase

Trinity College
The Mill 93 Vernon Street, Hartford, CT

Performances by:
La Bruja
DJ Laylo
Trinity Students

Host: Peaches Rodriguez

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PHILADELPHIA

March 16, 2010

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Black Lily Presents:

International House
3701 Chestnut Street

Gracias Austin! We just got back from a great weekend in Austin. We were invited down to screen Estilo Hip Hop at UT Austin as part of the Abriendo Brecha Conference which is a space dedicated to activist scholarship aka research and creative intellectual work in alignment with communities, organizations, movements and networks working for social justice. There was a great turnout and even better conversation after which the crowd asked Eli Efi to perform a little something. Eli Efi spit 16 bars and invited everyone there to the show and party the following day, which was a fundraiser for three dope Austin grassroots groups –> Mamas of Color Rising, PODER, and Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition. Organizing for the life and rights of mothers, youth, people of color, and immigrants.

Whenever, I perform or DJ a party where there are 5 year olds and 30 year olds present, I know somebody is doing something right…and that was just the vibe. Eli Efi rocked it and had all the Tejanos rapping in Portugues. Not only were the events great and powerful, but we also got to do two of our favorite activities hang out with friends like Paula, Eric, Martin of Ocote Soul Sounds and DJ Chicken George…who told us where to go for the other favorite activity…diggin for records! Again Gracias Austin!

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Montreal nos tratou bem pa caramba! Fazia um frio ridiculo. Nunca senti nada igual, mas o calor humano ajudou a gente segurar a onda. A DJ Laylo tocou ao lado dos DJs Waahli e Julien, tivemos um cypher com Nomadic Massive, e ainda participamos do Forum contra brutalidade policial. Festa, Confraternização, e Militancia. Combinação Perfeita!

In January, Eli Efi, DJ Laylo, Isabel Gonzalez, and filmmaker Angelique Webster headed up to the dope (but freezing) city of Montreal. Here are pictures of Laylo DJing alongside DJs Waahli and Julien, us chillaxing with the mighty Nomadic Massive, and speaking at The Forum Against Police Brutality.

MAIS FOTOS AQUI.