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We have added some new people to the roster (marked in blue).
Here is a current roster listing for you.If you see something of interest, please get in touch and we will send you a package and a roster sampler.
Amok Artist Agency Roster for 2005
Les
Batinses - (Quebec) - North American representation
Québécois roots that explodes with massive energy and talent
Mighty Popo - (Canada/Rwanda) - Worldwide representation
Afro-Canadian band fusing traditional African sounds with reggae, blues
and N.A roots music
Kanenhi:io Singers - (Aboriginal / Canada) - Worldwide representation
Traditional Mohawk songs and dances that explore a sense of community
Zubot and Dawson - (Canada) - Worldwide representation
Canadian roots with influences of jazz, roots, ethnic swing with some
experimental groove and pop. Juno Award Winners
Madagascar Slim and Donné Robert - (Canada / Madagascar) - Worldwide
representation
Malagasy blues and roots music. 2 time Juno Winner
Mel M’rabet - (Morocco / Spain / Canada) -
Worldwide representation
Experimental oud that explores traditional to trance. A true "oud" virtuoso
and powerful singer! Nominated for a Genie Award.
TOFU - Tons of Fun University - (Canada / USA) - Canadian representation
2 continental poetry slam champs putting politics, attitude and
words to music to create earth shakingly poignant performance.
Tri-Continental - (Canada) - North American representation
Lester Quitzau, Bill Bourne and Madagascar Slim. With 4 Juno
Awards between them, this fusion of roots, blues and intricate
Malagasy
guitar is sheerly
magical.
Tom Robinson - (UK) - North American representation
Punk era legend, Tom Robinson is a master song writer, performer
and equal rights activist.
Horace X - (UK) - Worldwide representation
Dayglo-techno-world music, straight out of the multikulti melting
pot of the UK.
Hamid Baroudi - (Algeria / Germany) - North American representation
World music Nomad, Baroudi, evolved from the legendary Dissidentin
and has been incredibly successful taking world music to
the world of pop
music.
Hoven Droven - (Sweden) - North American representation
Ferocious, Swedish, people eating, polkas and waltzes. Intricately,
delicate instrumentals. 5 amusing guys hamming it up on
stage.
Amampondo - (South Africa) - North American representation
“
Mandela’s house band”, “one of the best percussion groups currently
available worldwide”, “Best World Music Group 2002, Festival D’été,
Quebec City”.
Warsaw Village Band - (Poland) - North American representation
Hardcore folk... bio-techno... powerful... moody... lost
and found sounds from the forgotten East.
Sarah Jane Morris - (UK) - North American representation
With a vocal range that both mesmerizes and shocks
audiences, Sarah-Jane Morris explores jazz, blues,
roots and pop
music with the passion
of diva and the
charm of the “girl next door”
Black Umfolosi - (Zimbabwe) - North American representation
Zimbabwe’s cultural ambassadors and most travelled group. A male choir
and dance troupe that performs and educates the Zimbabwean experience to
all ages.
Babar Luck – (UK) - North American representation
Babar brings a unique cultural melting pot to his blend of music - folk,
world, hip hop and poetry as you can hear on the soon to be released album
Gangsta Folk
Sui Vesan – (Slovakia) - North American representation
“
Imagine Kate Bush taking you by the hand, leading you deep into the Slovakian
countryside and showering you with pine cones. Sounds good? Well, when you
listen to Sui Vesan's debut album this wild fantasy virtually comes to life.” bbc.co.uk
Kawa Brass Band – (India) - North American representation
While there are clear if somewhat elongated ties to the Gypsy brass bands
of eastern Europe, the Rajasthani variety stands alone for its unique
and powerful sound, its unique mix of instruments and its general exhuberance.
The instruments include the usual tubas, trumpets, trombones are augmented
by searing reeds and wonderful singers, all driven by a percussion
section.
Dona Rosa – (Portugal) – North American representation
In 1999 a Portuguese production company was asked to find a Fado singer
for an Austrian Television Company production to be recorded in Marrakesh.
The
programme’s musical director, the well-known Viennese artist and impresario
André Heller, had a particular blind street singer in mind,
a woman he had heard many years ago, whose voice had moved him deeply
and haunted
his memory ever since. The search proved to require quite some detective
work but finally she was found - DONA ROSA.
Laio – (Spain) – –North American representation
"
Incredibly refreshing...festival surprise LAIO were definitely in keeping
with the folk fest attitude of giving audiences something completely different.
Their sound is an odd amalgamation of electronica,Celtic, jazz and others" Calgary
Sun
"
Laio’s sound is highly eclectic. Laio represents a kind of microcosm
of the whole music scene in Galiza" Tony Montague (The Georgia
Straight)
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