BLNRB Release Concert

The BLNRB project has caused quite a stir: mind-blowing parties in Nairobi, Berlin and Cologne, the international release and reviews for the album BLNRB – Welcome to the Madhouse from all over the world.

Now we are looking forward to its culmination: The BLNRB Release Concert, at the place where it all started: Nairobi! The artists will be reunited again, so for the last time you will have the chance to experience a night of dance and fun with Just A Band, Ukoo Flani, Kimya, Lon’Jon, Nazizi, Michel Ongaro and Radi from Nairobi and Jahcoozi and Teichmann Brothers from Berlin!

To lift your spirit for the concert, get the album BLNRB – Welcome to the Madhouse at Nakumatt, Uchumi, iTunes and local music stores. It contains 18 of the best tracks from the project.
Source: goethe.de/ins/ke

Concert date
Saturday, 10th December 2011, 9.00 pm
Nairobi Railway Club
Entrance Fee 200/= KSh
+254 (0) 20 222 4640
kilian.crone@nairobi.goethe.org

The Documentary
The project will be summed up with a screening of the BLNRB documentary, showing exclusive look behind the scenes, produced by Christian Füssenegger. The screening will start right before the concert, at 8.00 pm. Here's the trailer of the documentary

The History
In early 2009, three bands from the world-reknown Berlin electronic music scene set out to a journey, their destination: Nairobi, Kenya, in East Africa. The idea ‘Berlin meets Nairobi’, brainchild of Goethe-Institut Nairobi and electronic music duo Gebrüder Teichmann, was as simple as it was complex at the same time. Berlin musicians would come to this vibrant East African metropolis and meet, mix and mingle with artists from the local music scene.

The name of the project became BLNRB-NRBLN, a fusion of the colloquial abbreviations of the two cities involved. From Berlin, there were Modeselektor, the hyperactive breakbeat-duo, curious electronic producers Gebrüder Teichmann and Jahcoozi, the multicultural star trio composed of Dubstep, Grime Rave and hyper-sonic Electronica. From Kenya, rappers like Mister Abbas, Kimya and Lon ́Jon or the first lady of Kenyan rap, Nazizi, became part of the joint collaboration. The electropop band Just A Band and blind singer/guitarist Michel Ongaro also contributed their flavors. In addition, six members of the HipHop collective Ukoo Flani from the coastal city of Mombasa were a key part of the body of MCs who would turn up every day and night.

Two studios were established in a townhouse in Nairobi, where everyone in the project worked, performed and lived together. The above-mentioned bands were invited but word spread like fire within Nairobi’s music scene. Quickly there was a frenzy of artists coming and going, the now infamous Madhouse was born. Read on at source: outhere.de
More information on the BLNRB project http://blog.goethe.de/BLNRB/