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20:00 | Die Antwoord (South Africa) |
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 Coming from Cape Town, South Africa, the hip-hop duo Die Antwoord struck Internet viral gold with their video hit "Enter the Ninja," but they're really conceptual artists Watkin Tudor Jones and Yo-Landi ViSSer presenting their "inner zef." Before assuming the roles of Ninja and Yo-landi ViSSer for die Antwoord, the two were involved with satirical projects like MaxNormal.TV - who wore three-piece business suits and delivered motivational hip-hop - and the Constructus Corporation: a hip-hop fantasy group based around a comic book called the Ziggurat. The idea for a more vulgar rave-rap group began in 2008, but it wasn't until a year later that die Antwoord - which is Afrikaans for "The Answer" - began playing live. Their stage show was outrageous with Yo-Landi baiting and flipping off the audience, while Ninja rapped and danced, wearing only his trademark Dark Side of the Moon boxer shorts. That same year they recorded their debut album, SOS, and introduced "Zef," which fused hip-hop, electro, and rave music. A year later, the videos they created for the tracks "Zef Side" and "Enter the Ninja" became viral hits. The latter featured Leon Botha, an experimental South African artist and one of the world's oldest survivors of the premature aging disease progeria, who appeared as the group's DJ. "Enter the Ninja" cracked the British Top 40, and major-label Interscope soon signed the group and released their 5 EP in July of 2010. In October 2010, the label released a revised SOS with a world tour following. The group left Interscope the next year when the two parties couldn't come to terms on their next album's lead single. Left to their own devices, Die Antwoord chose "Fok Julle Naaiers" as the lead single to TenSion, their sophomore album released by their own Zef Recordz and distributed by the Diplo-associated imprint Downtown. In Moscow Die Antwoord is coming with their new album Donker Mag which was released on June 3rd, 2014 by Zef Records. The album's lead single was "Cookie Thumper!". Donker Mag finds Watkin Tudor Jones and Yo-Landi ViSSer plying similar ground to their first two: "It's a punishing set of disjointed beats, crass profanities ("raging zef boner") and overstuffed artificial components. There's a stale whiff of deja vu to their rap-rave dubstep smackdowns, from the quick-fire Xhosa chants on "Girl I Want to Eat You" to short monologue-style interludes like the distasteful "Pompie" and the delusional "Zars." Read more
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18:00 | State Symphony Capella of Russia |
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State Symphony Capella of Russia conducted by Valery Polyansky (Art Director and Chief Conductor) presents Brahms' Symphony # 1 and Schnittke's Requiem. The State Symphony Capella of Russia was founded in 1991 as a result of a merger of the USSR State Chamber Choir under the leadership of Valeri Polyansky and State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Culture headed by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Specialists mark strict performing discipline reigning in the collective, flexibility of phraising, rich and warm sounding, nobility of expression, skillfully balanced sounding sections, all that make it the State Symphony Capella of Russia. Capella's programs include such master pieces as Masses of Mozart and Schubert, Bruckner and Liszt, Requiems by Verdi, Cherubini, Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak, Britten, Schnittke, Rachmaninoff's Bells, Stravinksy's Wedding, operas in concert performances, etc. Having visited numerous Russian cities, the Capella has toured Spain, Hungary, France, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Canada, England, Italy, and other European countries. Many critics around the toured countries noted the flawless vocal and choral technique, beautiful continuous sounding, crystal-clear and precise intonation and unfailing attention to poetic words. In December of 2005 the Capella made a debut tour of the Far East by visiting Hong Kong and Mainland China as a part of the Holiday Festival activities.
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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