A rare live show from vintage electric organ n’ percussion mondo-jazz groovers Les Hommes! The ace Les Hommes’ visceral sounds explore exotica, Arabic figures, filmic motifs and ’60s Rio-styled bossamba.
Les Hommes were key to the electric-organ-in-jazz renaissance of the 1990s, but whose take on the genre always veered from the obviousHeavily influenced by the Brazilian sounds of the 1960s they mix intense percussion workouts with billowing organ refrains. Their move towards the vintage Lowrey organ (and the influence of Brit organ supremo.
Alan Haven and Brazil's Walter Wanderley) also distinguished them fromthe cognoscenti. For their performance at Jamboree expect groovacious Rio bossamba, nods to 'library' jazz, rarified film music, and trips to exotica.
"It's Happening" with The Karminsky Experience Inc.
For the after-show club night, DJ and producer duo The Karminsky Experience Inc play an all-vinyl set of the kind of jazz you nearly forgot existed. With a global audience that has them topping the Mixcloud Soundtrack chart with their extraordinarily crate-dug vinyl collection, and having sold well over 20,000 copies of their superbly curated lounge compilations, you can expect to hear (and dance to!) thrillingly groovy and reassuringly obscure mid-century jazz sounds.
Rory More - Lowrey Heritage organ
Tarek Abou-Chanab - conga, vibraphone, bongos
Vladimiro Carboni - drums
Ross Hughes - bass clarinet, flute