Jazzanova put a live twist on Strata classics for Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Jazzanova play the Everyman on the Friday of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.
As the home of the US car industry, Detroit was once the beating metal heart of the American future. But by the late 1960s, the town the automobile built was hurtling towards dystopia as American’s motor giants were eclipsed by overseas rivals. That decline reached a critical mass 1967 when riots broke out across the city. But from those cultural ashes was born something new in jazz label Strata — arguably behind only Motown and the 1980s techno scene in the roll-call of iconic musical movements to have come from Detroit.
“Especially in the late 60s and early 70s, racism is rampant in America,” says Amir Abdullah, aka DJ Amir, the producer who has curated a fascinating re-imagining of Strata’s greatest moments in collaboration with Berlin jazz collective Jazzanova. The project is titled Strata Records — The Sound of Detroit Reimagined by Jazzanova and it will be brought to life in Cork when Jazzanova perform at the city’s Jazz festival, at the Everyman Theatre on Friday October 28.
