BUY TICKETS FOR SHABAZZ PALACES
FutureEverything in association with Now Wave are pleased to announce Sub Pop’s first hip hop signing, Shabazz Palaces, live at Islington Mill on Weds 16 May.
Shabazz Palaces are percussionist Tendai Maraire and Ishmael Butler, formally of Digable Planets and Cherrywine. While Tendai employs ancient instruments from his homeland Zimbabwe, Ishmael provides the group’s vision and vocals.
For Butler, who never stopped making music since he released his classic album by Digable Planets, Blowout Comb, Shabazz Palaces is his latest place to play with ideas. Those ideas have always been simultaneously global in their expansiveness and basement ceiling low in their commitment to hip-hop’s bottom line.
After releasing several recordings themselves on small time labels, in 2010 they released an EP with Sub Pop and have collaborated in recordings and on stage with artists such as Mc Silk and THEESatisfaction. They deliver sincere and radical lyrics with sounds and beats that include sounds from around the world.
Containing echos of funk, minor-key jazz, London dubstep and mbira sounds Shabazz Palaces structure their songs outside the 16-bars/chorus/repeat form of much hip hop.Their music won them the first ever Music Genius Award from The Stranger in 2010 and they often dress in elaborate costumes and masks for their live performances.
Watch Shabazz Palaces Live in Session at KEXP Seattle
Listen to Shabazz Palaces ‘Black Up’ Sub Pop album stream
DATE: Weds 16 May 2012 / 8PM-10.30PM
VENUE: Islington Mill, James Street, Salford
TICKETS: £8 + Booking Fee. Available from SeeTickets
EVENT: FutureEverything in partnership with Now Wave
NOTE: If you buy a ticket for Shabazz Palaces at Islington Mill, this ticket will admit you to the later show at the same venue ‘FutureEverything Opening Party‘ featuring Deadbeat for £4. Keep your ticket to gain half price entry.
Date: Wednesday 16th May 2012