our monthly Sydney party temporarily moves venue in Jan 09 to become UBER LINGUA NIGHT : BECKS FESTIVAL BAR
featuring special guests MAGA BO (Rio de Janeiro), FILASTINE (Barcelona) & DuOud (Istanbul) + DJs bP (Melb), Stu Buchanan and Gemma (Kookie)
Tickets $28 + BF from www.sydneyfestival.com.au or 02 9007 0007 : Ticketek www.ticketek.com.auor 1300 888 412 : Moshtix www.moshtix.com.au or 1300 438 849 CLICK
HERE for Sydney Festival event page
Uber Lingua specialises in the cutting edge of global music and you cant find a more edgey planetary minded pair of electronic musicians that FILASTINE (Barcelona) and MAGA BO (Rio de Janeiro). To be frank, these two are Uber's heroes! Constantly touring the globe working with multi-lingual vocalists and conjuring up new sonic territories... Coming from a different angle.. the pro-musical approach, yet still incorportaing electronics... DUOUD counter balance the above anarchists with an elegant, yet dangerously electric, often out of control wall of sound middle eastern stylee!... Imagine traditional stringed 'Ouds' put thru grungey guitar pedals and plugged into a couple of marshall stacks and you may get an idea of where this is headed. UL's bP witnessed DuOud perform at an anti-racism festival in the UK in 2007 and has since been fixated on getting them out. It is now a reality thanks to Sydney Festival (Nice one Fergus!)... These three acts will let loose with a concoction of unbridled international sounds unheard on this continent until now! With a stack of solid local supports... Joinging the internationals is Sydney Based Cuban Reggaeton swooner Pochoman... a popular emerging latin MC at both the Uber Abercrombie parties and other Latin events around town... Melbourne's UNDERBELLY dancers have been working with ex-Syd now Melb based bP and UL's main VJ Siadatz on a regular basis... This collaboration ventures up to the Becks Bar to let rip in front of a Sydney crowd for the first time... These girls are professional belly dancing teachers and performers and played with Uber Lingua at the opening of the Darwin Festival in 2008. Sydney's top two culturally active DJs Gemma (Kookie) and Stu
Buchanan (FBi) complete an incredible lineup. VJ Siadatz will perform
his trademark video for most of the event.
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.
www.myspace.com/jeanpierresmadj
Filastine (Barcelona) Filastine creates music that bends genre, cutting mutated hiphop with other street rhythms and international obscura to build a new sonic territory defined by nomadism, collaboration, beat science, and massive bass. In 2006 Filastine dropped his debut release, Burn It, to much critical acclaim on DJ Rupture's boutique imprint Soot Records. In the year that followed Burn It was licensed and re-released on CD three more times; by French label Jarring Effects, Japanese label ROMZ, and the anarchist media collective Crimethinc. Other releases include a CD mix and a 12" on Tigerbeat6 subsidiaries, and some vinyl on compilations and diverse labels. In 2009 he launches Dirty Bomb on Uber Lingua, Soot, Romz, Jarring Effects and Post World Industries simultaneously. Filastine has brought his soundclash to every type of club, squat, and festival imaginable across the globe, delivering beats with laptop, midi triggers, loudspeaker, and percussion mounted on a shopping cart. In 2007 Filastine played some huge festivals, opening for Coldcut in Morocco, Diplo in Portugal, and Rebel Familia in Japan. Filastine tracks have aired on the UK radio shows of Mary Anne Hobbs & the late John Peel, and peaked at #15 in French independant radio charts. Less visible are the spins on pirate stations in the Americas, or the more than fifty thousand downloads of his mix on Blentwell.com. Filastine founded the Infernal Noise Brigade, a 20-piece marching band active in international radical movements. He produced a record for a street band in Marrakech, Majmouat AbdelHakim, and is a composer for the butoh dance ensemble P.A.N. Sound is also a tool of direct action for Filastine. He conducts guerilla audio interventions and has been assaulted or arrested by police of many uniforms in the course of his work.
Maga Bo (Rio de Janeiro) Based in Rio de Janeiro, Maga Bo is a DJ/producer working with an international collision of styles, sounds, location recordings from all continents and beats that have yet to be classified. A study in the digital contortions of transnational breakbeat based bass music, his sound is an amalgamation of smashed up batucada, rai, capoeira, bhangra, loudspeaker jitter and skewed electronic beats in a borderless conundrum of gritty street sounds, found, stolen and modified rhythms and melodies from Brazil, Morocco, India and beyond. DJing and producing tracks with a portable laptop studio, he has worked and performed in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe. Having travelled widely, his collaborators range from Mr. Catra, B Neg_o and Piveti (ex-Pavilh_o 9) to Marcelo Yuka and Marcos Suzano in Brazil to Pee Froiss, WA BMG 44 and ALIF in Senegal to Prince Wadada and Kalaf in Portugal to K-Libre and Bigg (Mafia-C) in Morocco to Teba Shumba, DJ Dope, Max Normal and SiBot from African Dope Records in South Africa. He has remixed and been remixed by Ghislain Poirier, Dr. Das (Ex-Asian Dub Foundation), Nettle (DJ /rupture's live project), Genetic DruGs, Digitaldubs Sound System, Quantic, TM Juke and others. His work has been released on Soot Records, WordSound, and Tru Thoughts as well being re-released on numerous compilations. Aside from his varied solo work, he also represents one half of Sonar Calibrado Sound System in collaboration with Filastine. His live performances are a hybrid mix of DJ set and live PA where pirate cassettes bought on the street in various parts of the world, MP3s from the internet, obscure vinyl found in underground shops, original beats, unreleased remixes and exclusive tracks are selected, juxtaposed and mixed in a unique narrative . His performances often include the presence of guest MCs and musicians. When the freelance sound engineer works outside of his Brazil home-base, Maga Bo stays for weeks at a time: voicing dubplates, recording musicians, doing things like skills exchange and workshops (i.e. teaching young African hiphoppers how to rock pirated audio software...) Call it what you want - creating community, deconstructing the exotic, making collaborations in a fair and respectful way - the music speaks for itself.
Ever since he was a child, Pocho liked to dance, act and sing and believes that he inherited the music in his blood. In 1998 he started working with a group called Onda Expansiva and this was when the name Pochoman became his artistic name. Onda expansiva won an audition out of 500 other hip hop groups to perform at the International Hip Hop Festival of Cuba. Pochoman was offered the chance to sing in America, Brazil and Europe however due to his country's system of government he was unable to go. He has sung on radio and shared the stage with various other famous cuban artists such as Haila, Polo Montanez, Los Van Van, Carlos Manuel among others. He claims to be the only hip hop artist that has had the honour of singing in front of Fidel Castro.
DJ Gemma Gemma has been DJing since the wee hours of the eighties with many projects and parties. From Mardi Gras to hosting Club Kooky which has been going strong for over 12 years, DJ Gemma's aim is to showcase artists and performers from all over Australia and Club Kooky has released 13 CDs so far featuring a selection of those artists. She has played Womadelaide, the Sydney Biennale and for the past 4 years has presented Club Arak where Arabic music stemming from North Africa right across to Turkey is Celebrated. Club Arak celebrates Arabic culture in all it's rich diversity and contributes positive voice during these difficult and questionable times... DJ Gemma has also released a Club Arak CD with the collaboration of local artists and beyond. The above photo is a shot bP took of her performing at the recent Bellingen Global Carnival 07.
With cultural diversity his primary passion, Australian DJ/producer 'bP' (Brendan Palmer) has been representing the musically 'not so represented' for nearing two decades. He has wandered the world gathering sounds and has performed in places as diverse as Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, London, Tijuana, Mexico city and Helsinki to name a few... In 2004 he launched Uber Lingua and his sonic activity has grown exponentially playing literally hundreds of gigs and promoting culturally charged music in most capital cities of Australia. bP's sets traverse language, culture, genre, history and social scenes; deliberately defiant of mainstream music fashions, he presents an intersection of underground and outernational sounds that capture his imagination. Roots to Futurism, East to West, Minimal to Maximal are all sonic stops on bP's translingual express. Brendan additionally works as a producer at the legendary Melbourne radio station Triple R during the day and presents the weekly 'Dialectic' radio program on the web and nationally on the Community Radio Network satellite.
Stu Buchanan Hailing originally from Scotland, Stuart Buchanan is the host of the international music show, FAT PLANET on Sydney's FBi Radio and editor of the popular international music blog, fatplanet.com.au . A comrade of the international and multi-lingual music movement, Stuart has become deeply involved in Uber Lingua over the last couple of years, DJing baile funk, dancehall, afro hiphop, reggaeton, Baltimore, kuduro, bhangra, balkan beats and much more at the Sydney residencies and at the 2007 Laneway festival in Melbourne.
VJ Siadatz (formerly SDzeit) Melbourne based Dom Evans is VJ Siadatz and has been actively generating digital light for the past two years at Kent Street's 'Plug n Play' and at all of the bigger UberLingua events in Melbourne during that time. He also worked with Barcelona based cultural conjuerer 'Filastine' when he toured Australia in '06, performing video work at both the Melbourne and Sydney show. His work combines his illitrative art, sampled imagery, self made animations and other elements, often flowing between dark abstraction, urban psychogeographics and scientific surrealism. His work with Uber Lingua is sensitive to the cultural intersections that are being exlored and the collisions of ancient worlds with the modern hi tech... the results are stunning. Dom is also currently in his final year studying animation and electronic music at RMIT. 
Melusina The rhythm of the darabukka and plaintive notes of the ney first enticed Melusina's hips to sway in the mid 1990's. Since then she has maintained a passionate love for Middle Eastern dance that has motivated her to devote much of her life to the study, practice and teaching of this beautiful art form. Melusina has studied intensively under many inspirational teachers of varying styles of bellydance both here in Australia and overseas. Her fondness for both classical Egyptian dance and Contemporary Tribal Styles has extended her studies to Egypt and America. She has an impressive history of performing experience, dancing at many high profile events including working in television, festivals, concerts and at functions both around Australia and internationally. She is a popular instructor and choreographer who regularly travels to teach workshops. Melusina's style is unique and passionate, demonstrating technical precision and musicality with a strong emotive presense. Melusina is best known for her expertise in sword dancing, her innovative tribal fusion style and her expressive classical technique. 
Andrea (Underbelly dance - Melbourne) Andrea, the co-director of Underbelly dance studio in Fitzroy, has been performing and teaching various styles of Belly dance since 1999. With a strong foundation in Greek music and dance, Andrea is experienced in folkloric and modern styles from Egypt, Turkey, Morocco and beyond and has been a popular choice for performances at festivals and special occasions. She has also toured in the USA with fellow Underbelly dancers and has studied in Egypt and London with master choreographers. more info on multi-lingual MCs and the remaining Underbelly dancers shortly... 
Malia Malia Walsh has a background in Ballet, Jazz and Contemporary Dance. After discovering Fire Dancing in 1994, she quickly found herself performing at festivals and parties. In 1999 she embarked on a yearlong solo busking tour of America and Canada, cutting her teeth in performance the hard way. Malia returned to Sydney in 2000 to perform in the Olympic Opening and Closing ceremonies as an on-field supervisor for the Fire Segment. From 2001 to 02 she collaborated on performances with Concentrate, Atmosfire and Pyrotechnique, performing at Crusty Demon's, Rod Laver Arena, Docklands, corporate events and private parties. This lead to Malia's appointment as Fire Dancing teacher at Underbelly in 2003, a position which she holds to this day. In 2004, she choreographed 6-person shows for the opening of the N.G.V and the opening of the Melbourne Grand Prix. She also did shows at the Grand Hyatt, Hilton M.C.G, Telstra Dome and other major event venues across Melbourne. Malia travelled to New Zealand in 2005 to study traditional Poi and Taiaha with Rimona Peni of the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute. She also started to train with one of Australia's leading Adagio performers, Shannon McGurgan. She headlined New Year's Eve count down at Melbourne Docklands, performing a duo Fire Show with That Girl Entertainment. Travelling back to the Pacific Islands in 2006, Malia went to Samoa to study Fire Knives under Lene Leota who was a student of the first and original Fire Dancer, Freddie Letuli. She performed in Tasmania and Canberra with Robinson's Family Circus in The Strong Man Show, a 7 minute Adagio(acrobalance) act complete with handstands, flips and standing on head. She also performed Fire at the Edinburgh Festival later that year. 2007 has been a whirlwind year for Malia, starting with a Fire show in the Maldives, performing under Pyroptix alongside Jennifer Lopez and Ricci Martin. Following this, she headed off to Malaysia with Nocturnal Sunshine for a 3 week Fire show tour. Throughout the year, she has travelled to Tasmania, N.S.W, Queensland and all over Victoria for workshops. Malia performed Hula Hoops in Sydney, Tasmania, White Haven Beach, at the Zingy Marley concert with Bomba. She also performed The Strong Man Show in Japan in October, and then embarked upon a European tour with Fire and Hula Hoops in November. Uber Lingua has released Filastine's new album DIRTY BOMB
GOTO: FILASTINE & MAGA BO TOUR PAGE : DUOUD TOUR PAGE email: info@uberlingua.com to be on our email list... Demos can be sent
to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia
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