I am very pleased to announce that myself and Basketball with local boys Soft Wear will be invading Lucky Bar, January 14th in Victoria
Basketball; an energetic four piece driven by live electronics, spirited vocals, and massive percussion create an inclusive primal sound that grows into pulsating dance beats. From Tome’s vocals in his native tongues, Croatian and English, to the Persian scales, to the gypsy-esque spirit, their live performances, like rituals, induce mass dancing through catharsis, roping bodies into possession with their fierce thumping beats, and sparkling with eastern melodies. Their cargo: drum machines, a constellation of percussion, Turkish zurna, Persian santur, electric guitar, sub upon sub, and voice upon voice. The combination of their sound has drawn comparisons to Modeselektor, Gang Gang Dance, Buraka Som Sistema, The Joker and Tinariwen.
Here are some things people have said about them
“It only takes hearing a couple seconds of Basketball’s music to realize the band are extremely world-minded. The eclectic Vancouver, BC combo have managed to jumble Euro-centric club music, African rhythms, Croatian-sung lyrics and skittered electro beats into their kitchen-sink sound. The sensory-flooding sound is overwhelmingly awesome, to say the least.
- Exclaim! Magazine
“Middle Eastern sounds with cut up drum-machine beats, Basketball ends up tapping into something primal, creating their own genre. You really have to see them live to experience it firsthand; like an orgy, it’s very much a communal thing.”
- Discorder Magazine
“Basketball wander beneath night skies patterned with LED constellations across pixelated deserts like sonic nomads… dragging behind them broken drums and machines, forever talking in tongues attached to a trail of fluorescent wires slithering across the dust bowl like a congregation of snakes. Out there on the plains they erect a giant crystal rave tent in preparation for the forthcoming sandstorms with the ancient native tribes people they encountered as a circus of silhouettes before a moon that could have swallowed them as they sat atop their mechanical chrome camels.”
- 20JazzFunkGreats
here is a video of their newest realease Suspiros de Chile form their forthcoming album….
Last time two times that Basketball and I have played together the energy in the room was an almost religious magnitude.
Not one moment of posturing with them… the room was together for it the collective energy is something I havent felt at any other concert I have been a part of.
