Wednesday, October 28, 2009

ChocQuibTown

Have you ever seen (or have you ever imagined it could be possible to see) an Indian matron moving and swaying her hips at the rhythms of latin, hip-hop, and rap music? Well, that’s what I witnessed last week...

In the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Indian-Colombian bilateral relationships, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Embassy of Colombia in Delhi organized a series of commemorative events. Among these, the concert of the ChocQuibTown Band, an Afro-Colombian group that fuses Hip-Hop, Rap, Reggae and popular Colombian rhythms from the Pacific coast, obtaining a very enthralling mélange.

We definitively liked this band*, which, by bringing together different sounds, rhythms, and musical traditions from all around the world, well represents our ‘globalized’ generation - and we will definitively recommend going to one of their concerts, if you will ever have the opportunity.

(*) Here the link to the song with which they were nominated to the Latin Grammy 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wSNLGDK0dM and a video of the concert they did in Bhubaneswar two days before performing in Delhi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRonjeV8UcI

In a way it was strange to listen to a Colombian concert in India (but we are in a globalized world after all). But it was even stranger to observe Indians moving, dancing, waving, shaking, twisting at their songs. Another piece of evidence that, contrarily to the stereotype of “Brahman” all focused on meditation and spirituality, Indians are in truth a quite sanguine population...

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