Video #123 of 1000 – Blitz the Ambassador – TBA. Recorded live at the Vancouver Folk Festival on July 15, 2012 in HD (1080p on XA10).
A blindingly bright clarity drives Blitz the Ambassador. With a spot-on sense of flow, he name-checks Basquiat and Lumumba, evokes lovelorn sighs on Accra Buses, emigre alienation, history’s shadows. All set to swirls of brass, distorted guitars, and the crackle and pop of old amplifiers. With a lightning-fast mind, the political boldness of Chuck D, and the sixth groove sense of Fela Kuti, the Ghanaian-born, New York-based MC, composer, and producer unleashes psychedelic Afrobeat colors on the Vancouver Folk Fest crowd…
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Shot by Rod Matheson for EveryDayMusic
Posted with permission of the artist.
