10th Annual WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL: CHICAGO 2008

Afrodisiac night featuring
DJ Samy Ben Redjeb (Tunisia/Germany)
Rare 70s Afrobeat and Funk

DJ TopDonn (USA/Chicago/Kenya)
Afrobeat & Afro-Groove

Hosted by Aurelien PV (USA/Chicago/Cameroon)
Afro Groove

9pm-3am
$10 Cover

Samy Ben Redjeb
(Tunisia/Germany | Rare 70s Afrobeat and Funk)

In the mid-1990s, Samy Ben Redjeb was a diving instructor working in Senegal when an accidental exposure to a Thomas Mapfumo record triggered an epiphany. Slowly he worked his way round Africa’s record shops, but it was in Benin that he struck his gold. Financing his purchases by working as a flight attendant for an airline, African Scream Contest, the third release from his Analog Africa imprint, is the result. There isn’t as much screaming as the title suggests but a cornucopia of Afro-trance music, taking its influences from indigenous sounds as much as American funk and psychedelia.

www.myspace.com/analogafrica
http://analogafrica.blogspot.com

Afrodisiac’s Aurelien PV and DJ TopDonn
(USA/Chicago/Kenya/Cameroon | Afro-Groove)

Afrodisiac is a monthly club night dedicated to featuring the best in African dance rhythms including: Kwaito, Ndombolo, Makossa, Coupe-Decalle, Zouk and Kompa. Hosted by Aurelien PV, originally from Cameroon, together with resident DJ TopDonn, originally a DJ from Kenya, the two have been building a solid crowd and recently marked their one year anniversary of bringing various Afro-groove sounds to Chicago.