Babel Med Music: the resistance of the world music…against the global crisis
The age of reason
The last weekend of March – from the 24th to 26th from 11 AM to the end of the night- Babel celebrates seven years of existence: to enjoy the best of the event, a partnership with the Subway will enable the audience to stay up to 2 AM to benefit fully of the concerts offered by Latissimo for only 15 euro. This atypical festival inaugurates this year movies projections, in the Archives Gaston Deferre, a place close to the docks des suds.
Patrick Menucci, responsible for culture at the PACA Regional Council, welcomes the arrival of a half-dozen high schools, invited to discover this unique world music market. He regrets the non-financial participation of the City Hall of Marseille: Latissimo asked 10 000 euro on a global budget of 720 000 euro- almost half is funded by the region. ‘A symbolic request’, resumed Bernard Aubert. The PACA regional council is the main historical partner of the event and P. Menucci pays tribute to Michel Vauzelle for his engagement in the democratization of culture since 99. According to him, ‘ it is necessary that we rebalance the aid distributed to current music from scholarly music. Current music has a strong economic impact. The Gipsy Culture is part of the Provencal one and I am pleased that the festival opens the door to this culture, as a political sign. Babel Med Music should naturally be associated in the program of Marseille Provence 2013’ says Menucci.
Indian Ocean, Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania… everyone has joined Babel med music for these three days devoted to the world music, a market now internationally recognized. This 7th Edition starts in fanfare with the venues of Watcha clan, Montse Cortes, Chico Trujillo, Sahra Halgan, Shantel… et questions us on the music, for a better understanding of our origins, through many thematic such as the so-called music identity, the cultural particularities, traditional influences and search for new sounds, the concentration of production, the cost of concert tickets, the support to atypical venues and festivals, the democratization of knowledge, new technologies, ecology, mobilization against the censorship of music and words, the international mobility of artists. These themes are certainly not only dedicated to music but they are asked here with acuity in comparison to the difficulties encountered by the artists in these economically – and politically – disturbed times where the downloading of music on the internet has become commonplace.
There will be 3 days, 3 nights, 30 concerts open to everybody, dozens of conferences, more than 150 booths and thousands of meetings to provide an unique occasion of discovering an original festival. With more than 2,500 professionals (programmers, producers, institutions, Medias, artists, broadcasters, etc) from the 5 continents, this market, with its conference rooms and debates and its agora, is an ideal place for professional meetings and exchanges too. This event is the perfect opportunity to meet artists originating from 21 countries and 5 continents… Among them, 5 awards has been given to 7 iconic artists of the music of the world: Babel Med Music Award: Lo Cor of the Plana (Occitania) & Wesli (Haiti); Price France music: Insingizi (Zimbabwe); Price Adami of the musics of the world: Oneira 6tet (Iran/Greece/Mediterranean); Price Mondomix: El Hijo de Cumbia (Argentina) and Price Labels South Phonopaca: Oslo Swan and Sashird Lao (PACA region).
Everybody could hear for the first time various artists such as: SHANTEL (Germany); FALLY IPUPA (Congo); BLUE KING BROWN (Australia); CHARBEL ROUHANA (Lebanon) ; CHICO TRUJILLO (Chile); MONTSE CORTES GUEST JUAN CARMONA (Spain): La nueva passionate flamenco ; JUJU (Justins Adams & Juldeh Camara) (UK/Gambia) ; WATCHA CLAN (France/region PACA) ; CHRISTINE SALEM (the meeting – France); MIQUEL GIL (Spain); CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO (Italy); OQUESTRADA (Portugal) ; ISTANBUL SAZENDELERI (Turkey) ; KAREYCE FOTSO (Cameroon); KABBALAH (France/region PACA) – in picture; FEDAYI PACHA (France); EROL JOSUE (Haiti); FANFARE of BELGISTAN (Belgium); NOREUM MACHI (South Korea); AZIZ SAHMAOUI & UNIVERSITY OF GNAWA (Morocco); THE SAMURAI (Fr/Be/It/Irl/end); SONGS SAKERS GYPSIES in PROVENCE (PACA region); SAHRA HALGAN (Somaliland); SASHIRD LAO (France / PACA region); THE Sun Africa rising (Comoros); PLACE KLEZMER (France); MAMA OHANDJA (Cameroon); DJ KAAN GOKMAN (Turkey) and CORASON in MEXICO (Mexico/region PACA). Have a look on www.dock-des-suds.org
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