Extra Golden is about a month away from releasing its new album, Thank You Very Quickly (Mar 10) and will embark on a 12 day tour of the UK before coming Stateside for two weeks of shows on the East Coast and midwest. Dates for a West Coast May tour should be available soon.EAST COAST / AFRICAN SOUL REBEL UK TOUR DATES:Mar 3 Gateshead, UK The Sage w/Baaba MaalMar 4 Liverpool, UK ...
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More than a charming throwback, this is a power statement made all the more remarkable when one considers the political and geographic obstacles the band continues to overcome.
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Photos by ChrissyDC/Kenyan hybrid Extra Golden lit up Floristree on Friday. In a night jam-packed with shows, I can't imagine there were too many better ways to cap off your evening.I have not attended a show with this much dancing in a good while, and this was mostly not the obnoxious kind either. It was the feel good shake-your-body in any which way Otieno Jagwasi's vocals swayed or Onyang..
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Extra Golden's latest is a thrillingly psychedelic take on the Kenyan Benga style, says James Dalrymple
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All you guys should checkout Extra Golden. The band is comprised of the two guitarists of Golden (ethnomusicologist Ian Eagleson and Alex Minoff of Weird War), and Otieno Jagwasi and Onyango Wuod Omari of the Nairobi, Kenya based benga band Orchestra Extra Solar Africa.They met on one of Eagleson's research trips to Nairobi where he would spend months studying the Benga music of Kenya for his P...
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Extra Golden is about a month away from releasing its new album, Thank You Very Quickly (Mar 10) and will embark on a 12 day tour of the UK before coming Stateside for two weeks of shows on the East Coast and midwest. Dates for a West Coast May tour should be available soon.EAST COAST / AFRICAN SOUL REBEL UK TOUR DATES:Mar 3 Gateshead, UK The Sage w/Baaba MaalMar 4 Liverpool, UK ...
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Photos by ChrissyDC/Kenyan hybrid Extra Golden lit up Floristree on Friday. In a night jam-packed with shows, I can't imagine there were too many better ways to cap off your evening.I have not attended a show with this much dancing in a good while, and this was mostly not the obnoxious kind either. It was the feel good shake-your-body in any which way Otieno Jagwasi's vocals swayed or Onyang..
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All you guys should checkout Extra Golden. The band is comprised of the two guitarists of Golden (ethnomusicologist Ian Eagleson and Alex Minoff of Weird War), and Otieno Jagwasi and Onyango Wuod Omari of the Nairobi, Kenya based benga band Orchestra Extra Solar Africa.They met on one of Eagleson's research trips to Nairobi where he would spend months studying the Benga music of Kenya for his P...
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Extra Golden's latest is a thrillingly psychedelic take on the Kenyan Benga style, says James Dalrymple
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Extra Golden is bi-continental collaboration between Kenyan and Amercian musicians, an innovative combination of east African benga guitar pop and American boogie rock that includes former members of the band Golden. This sophmore recording was done during the band's US tour last fall, the Kenyan members' first trip outside of east Africa."Obama" is a song of praise for the Senator and his staf...
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| 3 Ilando Gima Onge |
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