- artist:BCUC (South Africa)
- event type:WOMEX 23 Award
- date:29 Oct 2023
- time:12:00 -
- city/area:A Coruña
- venue:Theatre Stage
- country:Spain
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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“Ladies and gentlemen, we call ourselves Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness and we are here to give you the best time of your lives.” From their beginnings in Soweto over a decade ago, BCUC have been delivering on this existential promise of transcendence, steadily building the scope of their travels, from South Africa to Europe and across the Atlantic, energising and enlightening audiences to the ancestral rhythms and healing wisdom of their Zulu, Sotho and Shangaan cultural roots, rewired through labyrinthine, percussion-driven grooves powered by fluidly imaginative electric bass, creating a relentlessly pulsing launch-pad for symbiotic vocal constellations between sweet soul, declamatory urban intensity and trance-inducing chants. BCUC speak for the voiceless, for the ancestral spirit world, portraying an Africa that is not poor but rich in culture, offering a joyfully uncompromising Afro-psychedelic experience for all who wish to join them.