Long Live Toubab Krewe
by GeeTarFan on 2/1/14The Church - BostonMy favorite musical tricksters are Toubab Krewe, and last night at The Church in Boston they again delighted and amazed the dancing, bobbing crowd by pushing the boundaries of recognizable genres, categories, rhythms, and jams. Lewis Hyde, MacArthur genius winner and author of Trickster Makes This World, argues that “...the origins, liveliness, and durability of cultures requires figures whose function is to uncover and disrupt the very things the cultures are based on." He calls these energizing figures “tricksters” and they “are regularly honoured as the creators of culture.” Music historians and other sound freaks will be talking about Toubab 50 years from now as one of the most truly innovative, highly skilled, multi-genre, boundary-breaking synthesizers of West African and American rock traditions. I’ve seen them live many times over the past 6 years and their trickster treats are as musically stimulating and subversive as ever. Tired of the old sounds? Check ‘em out.