Debo Band - Boston's Ethiopian Groove Collective http://deboband.com Taking the classic sounds of Swinging Addis, paying it forward to the next generation. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:49:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Debo Signs to Sub Pop http://deboband.com/home/debo-signs-to-sub-pop/ http://deboband.com/home/debo-signs-to-sub-pop/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:13:50 +0000 Debo http://deboband.com/?p=646 It’s official, friends: Next Ambiance/Sub Pop will release Debo Band’s self-titled debut album on July 10 via CD, LP, and various digital formats. Get your first taste of the new record and download “Asha Gedawo” – it’s free here.

We’re also very happy to announce that we’ve joined the roster of booking agency par excellence, Concerted Efforts, whose eclectic stable includes Toumani Diabate, Konono Nº 1, Juana Molina, David Wax Museum, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Grupo Fantasma, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, Booker T. and The MG’s, and the all-star Afrocubism project, featuring members of the Buena Vista Social Club, alongside some of the giants of Malian music. Exciting stuff!

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2011 has been a stellar year for us full of exciting shows, first breaks and debuts: SXSW, Montreal Jazz Fest (Canada debut), Levitt Pavilion (California debut), Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center to name just the highlights.

And now as we wrap up the year, we are thrilled to announce that we’ve spent 3 weeks in the studio recording our debut full length record to be released in Summer 2012. Click on the photo below for a recording photo slideshow on Flickr.

The band listens back

The band listens back

Next year starts with a big show for us as one of 12 artists at globalFEST 2012, North America’s premier showcase for international music. Tickets available here.

“Each January, musicians from around the world gather in New York to kick off a new year with one amazing night of live music.” – NPR, All Songs Considered

]]> http://deboband.com/news/the-year-at-an-end/feed/ 0 Debo Band with special guests Fendika – Second US tour this summer! http://deboband.com/news/debo-band-with-special-guests-fendika-second-us-tour-this-summer/ http://deboband.com/news/debo-band-with-special-guests-fendika-second-us-tour-this-summer/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:26:03 +0000 Debo http://deboband.com/?p=563

Announcing the return of Fendika! Summer 2011

It’s right around the corner.

The second US tour with Fendika, our special
guest collaborators from Ethiopia.

For full dates and show info visit the shows page.

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SXSW – Here we come!

Momo’s, Austin, Texas: We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been invited to perform at South by Southwest, one of the largest music festivals in the U.S. Nearly 2,000 bands are performing this year, so we are honored to participate.

PRI’s The World and KUT Austin present All Music Is World Music, a genre-blurring night of music — this year’s artists hail from San Francisco, Boston, Brooklyn, Miami/Columbia, and Timbuktu, Mali. For more info, check out the Facebook event.

We even got one of our new videos on the official SXSW YouTube page!

]]> http://deboband.com/news/sxsw-here-we-come/feed/ 0 Next Show on Fri 2/25 – Countdown to Carnival Masquerade http://deboband.com/uncategorized/next-show-on-fri-225-countdown-to-carnival-masquerade/ http://deboband.com/uncategorized/next-show-on-fri-225-countdown-to-carnival-masquerade/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:18:59 +0000 Debo http://deboband.com/?p=517 New show announced! Join us on February 25 at the Middle East Downstairs for “Countdown to Carnival Masquerade.”

We’ll be joined by AfroBrazil, Tōmn, and Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band for a night featuring a Mardi Gras brass band explosions, Ethiopian trance grooves, Braz-American Rock music sandwiches, and an Brazilian Samba dance party.

Friday, February 25th /// 9 PM
The Middle East Downstairs
480 Mass. Ave (Central Sq.)/// Cambridge, MA
18+ /// $10 advance/ $12 day of show

Buy tickets here. And give a shout out on the Facebook invitation.

The deets:

  • Artist: Debo Band
  • Date: Friday, February 25th 2011
  • Time: 9:00pm
  • City: Debo Band in Cambridge
  • Venue: Middle East Downstairs
  • Address: 480 Mass. Ave
  • Country: United States
  • Admission: $10 advance, $12 doors
  • Age restrictions: 18+
  • Notes: MARCOS SANTOS’S AFRO BRAZIL + TŌMN + DEBO BAND + EMPEROR NORTON’S STATIONARY MARCHING BAND – Join us on February 25 at the Middle East Downstairs for “Countdown to Carnival Masquerade.” We’ll be joined by Marcus Santos’s AfroBrazil, Tōmn, and Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band for a night featuring Mardi Gras brass band explosions, Ethiopian trance grooves, Braz-American Rock music sandwiches, and an Brazilian Samba dance party.
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Friends, the wait is over – we’re pleased to announce our first CD release: a four track EP of live performances from our 2010 travels to Africa, lovingly and expertly prepared for you.

This live recording documents the brief period around our second trip to East Africa in Winter 2010, a journey that took our Ethio-groove collective across the world to share our interpretations of 1970s-era brass band-style Ethiopian funk. During this time we played a five-part hometown residency, a cosmopolitan Addis Ababa nightclub, and one of the largest music festivals in Africa. Along the way, we once again collaborated with dear friends and outstanding traditional artists: Melaku Belay and his group Fendika.

The flamingo is a majestic bird that thrives in the volcanic lake regions of East Africa’s Great Rift Valley. Like many African animals, mystery and myths surround the origins of this long-necked pink bird.  Our “flamingoh” is no exception: Flaming feathers (re)birthed from a breaking dawn. A dawn that rips open the sky.

The four tracks offered here are just the beginning: we have a documentary, featuring our escapades with Fendika, and a full-length live album on the way. This is our dawn: Goh qeddede.

Pick up a CD – with gorgeous cover art by James Weinberg – at one of our shows, online at Dusty Groove America (our favorite online retailer), or download from our bandcamp site.

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New t-shirts on the way! Naturally, we’re going with the Flamingoh design. Hope to unveil them at our first shows of the year, coming up soon on January 7 & 8.

Happy holidays and best wishes for 2011!

love,
Debo

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Vote Debo! 2010 BMAs.

We’re thrilled to have been nominated once more in the Boston Music Awards category, “Best International Act.” We won the award in 2009, and, with your help, we hope to win again! Voting is easy and only takes two secs — just click here. Polls close on Monday, November 29, 5pm.

We’re also playing the awards ceremony on Sunday, December 5, at the stunning Liberty Hotel. Come on out and show your support! (See below for full details.)

Thanks for all your support in making this our biggest and best year yet. We couldn’t have done it without you!

xoxo, db.

The deets:

  • Artist: Debo Band
  • Date: Sunday, December 5th 2010
  • Time: 11:00pm
  • City: Debo Band in Boston
  • Venue: Liberty Hotel
  • Address: 215 Charles Street Boston, MA 02114
  • Country: United States
  • Admission: $20-$99
  • Box office: 617-283-2664
  • Notes: Debo Live at the BMAs. /// Catch us live at the BMAs, next Sunday, December 5 at Boston’s stunning Liberty Hotel. Our set is at 11pm in the Esplanade room (5th floor, near the rotunda). /// Admission is $20 and gets you in on an exclusive and glamorous night of music. Proceeds from the night go to support local music charties.
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We’re thrilled to announce our next show on Friday, November, 19 at Johnny D’s where we’ll be joined by Full Tang, a great local band whose original compositions are steeped in the Chimurenga music of Zimbabwe, Franconian Salsa of the Congo, and Highlife of Ghana and Nigeria. It’s our first time sharing a bill with Full Tang, and we’re sure you’ll love them.

Read more and listen here.
And us let know you’re attending on our Facebook event page.
Full details over on the show page.
]]> http://deboband.com/news/debo-band-with-full-tang-at-johnny-ds/feed/ 0 Debo Band presents: Veveritse Brass Band with Spanglish Fly! http://deboband.com/home/debo-band-presents-veveritse-brass-band-with-spanglish-fly/ http://deboband.com/home/debo-band-presents-veveritse-brass-band-with-spanglish-fly/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:09:10 +0000 Debo http://deboband.com/?p=371 Thanks everyone for an awesome tour!   Check out the reviews, we think they show we’ve got something special going on here.  Our friends from Fendika have gone home to Ethiopia, but we’re working on getting them back here for some summer fun, stay tuned…

To celebrate the fall tour and kick off HONK! weekend, we’re throwing ourselves a party and hosting Ververitse Brass Band and Spanglish Fly this Friday at the Western Front.  If you love Debo Band, we think you’ll love these two amazing bands from NYC too!

Spanglish Fly
myspace.com/spanglishflynyc

Ververitse Brass Band
myspace.com/veveritsebrassband

HONK! Festival
honkfest.org

The deets:

  • Artist: Veveritse Brass Band & Spanglish Fly!
  • Date: Friday, October 8th 2010
  • Time: 9:00pm
  • City: Veveritse Brass Band & Spanglish Fly! in Cambridge
  • Venue: Western Front
  • Address: 343 Western Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
  • Venue phone: 617-492-7772
  • Country: United States
  • Admission: $10
  • Age restrictions: 21+
  • Notes:

    To celebrate the end of our fall tour with Fendika, and kick off the HONK! festival, we’re throwing ourselves a party and hosting two bands involved in the weekend’s festivities: Spanglish Fly and Ververitse Brass Band.

    Spanglish Fly and Ververitse are exciting takes on the big brass energy that has emerged in NYC during the last decade. Spanglish rock some mean bugalu and afro-latin soul, with sultry vocals and sassy horns and …funky percussion. Ververitse are a rocking Romani Brass gypsy big fun time machine that will get you sweating on the dance floor.

    Catch them at the Western Front with resident ringleaders of Debo Band, MacDanny and DJ Berbere, on hand. Each band will play two sets, Debo won’t play because we’re taking some time off till Homegrown II, JP’s underground music fest by Dan Shea on Oct 15-17 at Temple Sound and Stage (more on that soon….)

    Cambridgeport’s HONK! Fest Kickoff!!!!!

    Hosted by MacDanny and DJ Berbere of DEBO
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