Uber Lingua and Top Shelf present

Java (Paris) & DuOud (Istanbul)

Featuring 2 of the most contemporary and exciting acts on the world music stage, together with the Uber Lingua DJs spinning & mixing a kaleidoscope of sounds, Sunday January 11 at the Corner Hotel promises to be very special indeed.

Mixing up genres and classical training with modern technology, rap, jazz grooves, break beats, metal guitar, Turkish and African rhythms, both Java and DuOud, in Australia to perform at the Sydney Festival, will have audiences enthralled, enchanted and inspired by the heady fusion of centuries-old tradition and fresh sounds made possible by technology, skill, passion, and an innate gift for musical adventure and expression.

Uber Lingua DJs Russian Disko, Rachid BB & Mondo Loco drop up tempo beats between sets!

TICKETS SELLING FAST thru http://www.cornerhotel.com or phone 03 94279198
or Corner Hotel Box Office 57 Swan St Richmond (11am-8pm Mon-Sat) 

OR Northcote Social Club Box Office : 301 High St, Northcote (Mon - Sat 2.00 - 6.00pm) 
or phone 03 9486 1677

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Here's some video 
DuOud http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7Kl5RACPY
Java http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20oa0_cendrier_music

Java (France)

A wildly popular Parisian four-piece outfit, Java describe their style as French 'chanson' mixed with hypnotic black music of African origin. 

Expect a delicious combination of rap, funk, reggae, jazz, infectious accordion waltzes with surprising rock twists, sparkling poetic and humorous lyrics; all carried by a faultless groove rhythm and delivered with a large dash of Parisian cheekiness. Java have become welcome regulars on the international touring circuit since their debut release 'Hawaã' in 2000, wowing show goers with their dashing, colourful performances. 

www.myspace.com/javathefrenchband

DuOud (Istanbul/Paris/North Africa)

DuOud consist of two oud playing Istanbul based musicians; Tunisian born Jean-Pierre Smadja, already noted for two albums he issued as Smadj on MELT 2000, and Algerian born master oud player Mehdi Haddab, known for his work with the acclaimed French based trio, Evoko, and more recently Speed Caravan.

Blending their Nth African heritage with the latest Western technology, the pair build a musical cycle that looks to their African roots while absorbing and morphing contemporary music styles - break beats, jazz grooves and metal guitar. While DuOud are not the first to mix the North African lute with electronic technology, they do it with such an imaginative freedom that sets them apart from their contemporaries; their debut album Wild Serenade saw them nominated for the Best Newcomer award in the 2003 BBC Music Awards. 

Their 2005 album Sakat, on which they collaborated with Abdulatif Yagoub (Yemen) further cemented their reputation, receiving high critical praise across Europe.  Fans can expect a new release, Ping Pong, in 2009. Uber Lingua's multi-lingual music specialist DJs and Live acts support DuOud as they travel around the country. 

A standout event is the 4-stage laneway space in Sydney's CBD. Angel Place on Festival First Night is currated for the second time by Uber Lingua with a high concentration of video projection built in to compliment the continuous sonic musical aspects of the event. The evolution this time round is to incorporate high calibre international acts. Electronic music producers Filastine (Barcelona) and Maga Bo (Rio de Janeiro) also perform in this back alley environment. 

On the 11th of January, UL & Top Shelf present a super-sonic French double-bill at Melbourne's The Corner Hotel, where DuOud play alongside Java. A wildly popular Parisian four-piece outfit, Java describe their style as French 'chanson' mixed with hypnotic black music of African origining community, deconstructing the exotic, making collaborations in a fair and respectful way - the music speaks for itself. 

www.myspace.com/jeanpierresmadj

Mondo Loco (the retro Turk duo)

Mondo Loco is DJ Serhan Ali and emerging VJ Tolga Imam. They drop Turkish psychedelic rock to Middle Eastern infused Jazz. Serhan has been collecting Turkish 45's since the age of 13, hunting down obscurities surprising even fellow Turks with the sounds of the motherland. 

Tolga does similar things with visuals. A journey of heavy Anatolian grooves from Turkey's 60's and 70's era, with sounds that blended perfect traditional folk tunes with western rock instruments. From prog rock to jazz, from Anatolian funk to 60's garage, Mondo Loco will surprise and deliver.

Russian Disko

Armed with a collection of discs personally sourced from Moscow_s infamous Gorbushka music dealers, Russian Disko_s speciality is deliriously up-tempo sets of thrash polka, blatnyak, Balkan brass, shanson, cocek, slav skool, gypcore, St Petersburg swearing ska, psycho gypsy and Eastern Bloc rock. 

For those of you not in the loop, that means: gypsy and Slavic music from Eastern Europe with a special focus on Russia_s underground criminal ska/punk/polka scene.  If it_s got Big Men with Big Horns, and it clocks in at 150, it_s in the set.

In recent years he has also embraced the broader horizons of European hip-hop, vintage and contemporary French pop, and anything else weird and wonderful that the non-Eurovision world of Euro-music has to offer.  He's also worked with folk-rocker Floyd Thursby, manouche trio the Gypsy Gaylords and acclaimed film score instrumentalists the Ang Fang Quartet.

Rashid B-B comes from an Anglo-African background - born in Capetown South Africa he then emigrated to exotic Adelaide, South Australia with his parents. Upon leaving high school Rashid returned once more to the continent of his birth and spent much of the eighties living and working in Cairo, Egypt and Sudan. Returning to Melbourne in 1990 Rashid read Islamic studies and Classical Arabic and ensconced himself in the then burgeoning Melbourne City club and laneway block party scene. 

In 1994 Rashid became a co-founder of the iconoclastic Citylights Project and started playing world beats with the Uber Lingua crew. He plays a an elemental / experimental mix of quick rhymin' Sudanese hip-hop, urban Egyptian rhythms and Nigerian funk with more familiar genres like Caribbean and black USA beats thrown in for good measure. 

Demos can be sent to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia