Community Drinks + special performance: ∆.i.∆. (Mutamassik & Lengai Loita, EG/TZ)
If you’ve ever thought of volunteering with us, now is the time to come over and have a chat, a drink and get to know the other volunteers. We always welcome more help serving drinks at the bar, selling tickets at the door or cooking vegan dinner for the bands that come play at OCCII.
(no worries if you can not make it this time, we will do this every 6-8 weeks!)
We will be open from 20.30 til 23.00.
At around 21.00 there will be an performance and some tunes to dance to – please bring cash to buy some handmade goods for the holidays!
∆.i.∆. Ancient Indigenous Africans (KMTZ Records) – “The Past meets the Future in the Present”
A special collaboration & cultural movement born at the Roots of the Nile River rejoining the separated streams, Roots and Fruits, of South (TZ) & North (KMT). Mutamassik joins forces with Lengai Loita,
representative from one of the great, galactic guardians- the Maasai tribe– whose history includes scaring off colonialists and slave traders with their fierce presence.
Lengai Loita‘s virtuoso East African Cowboy Blues & Warrior Chants meet Mutamassik‘s muscular beats & melismatic synths. Tradition and Innovation freestyle. Cosmic overtones converge with Indigenous undertones. A Soundtrack for the rediscovery of an Ancient Portal Crossfading to Future. Pastoral Hymns embedded in Plosive Polyrhythms. Rewilding Modern Music Redefining Outsider Art Ancestral Healing via Syncopation Synaesthesia, Syncretism & Synthesis
...and how Indigenous Knowledge is Key to our Global Interdependence.
Giulia Loli (Mutamassik) EG/IT/US
Veteran Artist / Manual Arts Engineer Cultural Liaison / Translator Percussion, Drum Machine, Turntables, Effects, Found Objects.
Lengai Loita (Moran Chanters) TZ
Maasai Warrior / Pastoralist Tribal Representative / Narrator Voice, Effects, Cultural Artefacts.
Lengai sings in his mother-tongue: Maa. And while the lyrics speak of the current plight of the Maasai, urgently echoing Native American history (land displacement, violence, discrimination), he also chants into being a wondrous world of Nilotic Aesop’s Fables, where nature is not our enemy, but our nourishing Mother. Mystical and trance-inducing spirituals of aeons, preserving traditions while dancing on the cutting edge.
Listen: https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/office-ambience-487
https://leguesswho.com/lineup/on-sound-as-substance-indigenous-approaches-to-sound-sound-as-medicine
∆.i.∆. forthcoming eponymous debut album: https://mutamassik.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-indigenous-africans
“There would be no Egyptian Civilization without the Nile River. There would be no Nile River without Lake Victoria, Tanzania (East Africa).
There would be no Egyptians without Tanzanians. And yet, there is hardly any sense of familyhood.
∆.i.∆. the cure.
Indigenous Peoples hold the keys to the portal that connects the Ancient to the Future in the Present.”
Accompanying the World Premiere of Ancient Indigenous Africans, we also present Traditional Maasai beaded jewelery (Shanga (Swahili)/ Emussitani (Maa): The wearable art of Maasai Master Craftswoman Maria Loita, Lengai Loita’s sister.
The Maasai are famous for their wearable art, but it is never only aesthetic; rather, full of history,
meaning and power. (Much like the collars, armbands, anklets worn by ancient Egyptians–in fact,
Maasai elders claim the tribe originated in Egypt...). Lengai is supporting his sister by selling one of his cows to buy the raw materials. Maria is a single mother of 4, living deep in Maasai country in Manga, Tanzania. All income from sales goes directly to Maria and the three generations of women of the Loita clan who helped her craft these beautiful masterpieces: Lea, Goswaki, Sapahe, Endoye, Tapei & Tumaini
Each piece is fresh from the bush: Unique, full of Love, Funk & Spirit! Ashe’ (Maa) / Asante (Swahili
