Results for "Val Jeanty"

Val Jeanty

Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc, is a Haitian Afrofuturist, drummer, turntablist, and Professor at Berklee College of Music. Jeanty is a pioneer of the electronic music subgenre called Afro-Electronica (also called "Vodou-Electro") incorporating Haitian folkloric rhythms with digital instrumentations by synergistically combining acoustics with electronics and the archaic with the postmodern.

Jeanty’s Afro-Electronica performances include the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale in Italy, and the House of the World’s Cultures in Berlin

Minwi

By Nite Bjuti

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ode to Octavia; Roots Legacy; Blaxk Mermaids; Chefchauen Blu; Piezoelectricity Girl; Hijas; Burf Myself; Choeback; Wombfire

Nite Bjuti: Minwi

by Kevin Poindexter
October 3, 2026

When Nite Bjuti  (pronounced Night Beauty), Candice Hoyes, Mimi Jones, and Val Jeanty  take to the stage, the surrounding air is charged with energy and anticipation. The trio conjures voices that invoke their ancestral past, and those voices guide them and help to shape and change the future. On Minwi, (Haitian Creole for midnight), Nite Bjuti channels that ...

Vision Festival 2026, Part 1

by Luciano Rossetti
July 26, 2026

Reflection Of Another Self

By Milena Casado

Label: Candid Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: THIS IS MY HAIR (!); O.C.T (Oda to the Crazy Times); Yet I Can See; Introspection I - I; Lidia y los Libros; Unconditional Love; Introspection II - Preguntas; Circles; Let’s Paint the World; Introspection III - Courage; Resilience; Circles (Retrospection); SELF LOVE.

Milena Casado: Spanish-born, New York-based Jazz trumpeter, bandleader and producer

by Doug Hall
July 4, 2025

On this show we chat with Milena Casado; Spanish-born, New York-based Jazz trumpeter, bandleader and producer. Ms. Casado's debut recording, Reflection of Another Self in her own words, “portrays an introspective journey of self-discovery, exploring her Afro-Latina heritage by unpacking personal traumas and finding her voice." As Ms. Casado is also a graduate of the Berklee ...

O.C.T (Oda to the Crazy Times)

April 13, 2025

Album: Reflection Of Another Self
By Milena Casado
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:59

Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard

By Kris Davis

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Alice in The Congo; Nine Hats; The Dancer; VW; Dolores, Take 1; Bird Suite, Part 1: Kingfisher; Endless Columns; Bird Suite, Part 2: Bird Call Blues; Bird Suite, Part 3: Parasitic Hunter; Brainfeel; Dolores, Take 2.

Sélène Saint-Aimé, Aruan Ortiz, Cassie Watson Francillon, Val Jeanty & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 24, 2024

A playlist focusing on the musicians that FourOneOne presented during “Transatlantik," a two-day of performances and conversations with diasporic artists engaged with the artistic and political concepts of negritude and créolité.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Cassie Watson Francillon “Callin'" Consortium Grande--Live at the ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024

by Thomas Conrad
November 18, 2024

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a major ...