I throw dope parties, travel for music & eat beautiful food.

Benin has a wealth and diversity of wonderful traditional music. This provides an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a cultural treasure little or not used so far.

Founded in 2003 by Auguste Aidasso (aka Assi-Ki), multi-instrumentist and composer, the band evolved step by step to create a musical style of its own, at the crossroads of Beninese rhythms and Jazz music, mixing cultures and sounds. Thus, Benin percussions (tam-tam, gong, gourd ...) meet the modern wind instruments (trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, tuba).

The themes of the songs cover topics from African contemporary society to feelings of our times: the children rights, love, solidarity, hope ... but also starvation.

Their 1st album was recorded in March 2010 in Cotonou and contains 13 original tracks (3 instrumentals and 10 songs).
["alle" means "bird" in the fon language.]

More tracks via https://soundcloud.com/telser

Altitude Sickness performs multi-dimensional mash-ups using self-assembled Monome tupperware. He samples across an eclectic vibrational spectrum - both rooted in western water music and driven by eastern exploration. Obsessed with developing new tools for interfacing with digital music, Altitude Sickness often finds himself juggling both beats and hardware on stage.
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 Video: vimeo.com/altitudesickness
 Contact: raw [at] rawwerks [dot] com
 Music: altitudesickness.bandcamp.mu
 Software: http://code.google.com/p/smacktop
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 Projects:
 The Jamburglar (Fall 2010)
 Dirty Projections (Fall 2008)
 Mashinery (Spring 2008)

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