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- 5/6/24Monday 07:00 PMNewcastle upon Tyne, GBBoiler ShopIbibio Sound MachineOn partner site
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- 5/22/24Wednesday 07:30 PMPortsmouth, GBWedgewood RoomsIbibio Sound MachineOn partner site
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- 5/23/24Thursday 09:00 AMSouth Derbyshire, GBCatton Hall and GardensBearded Theory 2024
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- Bearded Theory
- Jane's Addiction
- Amyl and the Sniffers
- Future Islands
- Sleaford Mods
- Orbital
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Bob Vylan
- New Model Army
- WARGASM
- Gentleman's Dub Club
- Ferocious Dog
- Punk Rock Factory
- Ibibio Sound Machine
- Jane Weaver
- Pip Blom
- Panic Shack
- Jim Bob
- Peat and Diesel
- Beans On Toast
- Divorce
- Sprints
- Green Lung
- English Teacher
- BDRMM
- Big Special
- Bis
- Roni Size
- The Orb
- 808 State
- System 7
- Utah Saints
- The March Violets
- The Bar Stool Preachers
- HotWax
- Trout
- Katie Malco
- Girl Scout
- 3 Daft Monkeys
- Spunge
- Sonic Boom Six
- Full Flower Moon Band
- The Meffs
- Ed Tudor Pole
- The Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonigan
- Soft Play
- Dexys
- Baxter Dury
- Dry Cleaning
- The Big Moon
- BC Camplight
- Therapy?
- Marika Hackman
- Goat Girl
- Les Savy Fav
- Bodega
- Chameleons
- Stereo MCS
- Prima Queen
- Penetration
- Katherine Priddy
- Lambrini Girls
- Dutty Moonshine
- Don Letts
- Bleach Lab
- Desperate Journalist
- Melin Melyn
- Tom McGuire and The Brassholes
- Saint Agnes
- IST IST
- Viji
- Chainska Brassika
- Battlesnake
- Meryl Streek
- Slope
- Headsticks
- Fabio and Grooverider
- K-Klass
- 6/6/24Thursday 07:00 PMLondon, GBKOKOIbibio Sound Machine
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- 8/1/24Until 8/4/24Oxfordshire, GBCornbury ParkAudi Presents Wilderness 2024 - Weekend Camping - General
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- Audi Presents Wilderness Festival
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Faithless
- Bicep
- Jessie Ware
- The Teskey Brothers
- Barry Can't Swim
- De La Soul
- Alison Goldfrapp
- Craig Charles
- Ibibio Sound Machine
- Cosmo Pyke
- Bongeziwe Mabandla
- Tom Rasmussen
- Dutty Moonshine
- Van Morrison Alumni Band
- Ewan McVicar
- Eats Everything
- Sarah Story
- Bill Bailey
- Bjorn Again
- Oh My God! It's the Church
- Joel Dommett
- Rosie Jones
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- 8/1/24Until 8/4/24Oxfordshire, GBCornbury ParkAudi Presents Wilderness 2024 - Weekend Family Camping
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- Audi Presents Wilderness Festival
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Faithless
- Bicep
- Jessie Ware
- The Teskey Brothers
- Barry Can't Swim
- De La Soul
- Alison Goldfrapp
- Craig Charles
- Ibibio Sound Machine
- Cosmo Pyke
- Bongeziwe Mabandla
- Tom Rasmussen
- Dutty Moonshine
- Van Morrison Alumni Band
- Ewan McVicar
- Eats Everything
- Sarah Story
- Bill Bailey
- Bjorn Again
- Oh My God! It's the Church
- Joel Dommett
- Rosie Jones
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- 8/1/24Until 8/4/24Oxfordshire, GBCornbury ParkAudi Presents Wilderness 2024 - Weekend Non-Camping
Lineup
- Audi Presents Wilderness Festival
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Faithless
- Bicep
- Jessie Ware
- The Teskey Brothers
- Barry Can't Swim
- De La Soul
- Alison Goldfrapp
- Craig Charles
- Ibibio Sound Machine
- Cosmo Pyke
- Bongeziwe Mabandla
- Tom Rasmussen
- Dutty Moonshine
- Van Morrison Alumni Band
- Ewan McVicar
- Eats Everything
- Sarah Story
- Bill Bailey
- Bjorn Again
- Oh My God! It's the Church
- Joel Dommett
- Rosie Jones
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- 11/8/24Friday 06:30 PMBristol, GBSWXIbibio Sound MachineOn partner site
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- 11/9/24Saturday 07:00 PMLeeds, GBProject HouseIbibio Sound MachineOn partner site
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- 11/14/24Thursday 07:30 PMBrighton, GBBrighton Concorde 2Ibibio Sound MachineOn partner site
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- 11/15/24Friday 07:30 PMManchester, GBManchester Academy 2Ibibio Sound MachineOn partner site
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- 11/16/24Saturday 08:00 PMDublin, IEWhelansIbibio Sound Machine
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- 11/19/24Tuesday 06:30 PMNottingham, GBNottingham Rescue RoomsIbibio Sound MachineOn partner site
About
Even in trying times, "there is no love without electricity." Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an existential crisis. "It's darker than anything we've done previously," says Eno Williams, the group's singer. "That's because it grew out of the turbulence of the past year. It inhabits an edgier world."
Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award- and Mercury Prize-nominated British synthpop group Hot Chip, a collaboration born out of mutual admiration watching each other on festival stages, as well as a shared love of Francis Bebey and Giorgio Moroder. The fruits of their labor reveal a gleaming, supercharged, Afrofuturist blinder. Electricity is the first album Ibibio Sound Machine have made with external producers since the group's formation in London in 2013 by Williams and saxophonist Max Grunhard. True, 2017's Uyai featured mixdown guests including Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue, the keyboard jedi in future-jazz trio The Comet Is Coming, but Hot Chip and Ibibio Sound Machine worked together more deeply throughout the process, collaborating fully. Along the way, the team conjured a kaleidoscope of delights that include resonances of Jonzun Crew, Grace Jones, William Onyeabor, Tom Tom Club, Kae Tempest, Keith LeBlanc, The J.B.'s, Jon Hassell's "Fourth World," and Bootsy Collins.
The hook of opener "Protection From Evil" has Williams wielding a massive synth line from Hot Chip's Al Doyle like a spiritual shield against unspecified, malign forces--unspecified because Williams is speaking in tongues. Her lyrics are onomatopoeic: their meaning is defined in her energetic delivery. As Electricity takes off, so do Williams' words towards a brighter future, alternating between English and Ibibio, sometimes within verses, and propelled by Joseph Amoako's unabating afrobeat. She digs into this sentiment further on single "All That You Want," coolly assuring her romantic interest while also requesting reciprocity. Meanwhile, Scott Baylis' playful Juno synth guides the listener's feet along the dancefloor.
Electricity is a deep and seamless realization of Williams' and Grunhard's ambitious founding manifesto to combine the singularly rhythmic character of the Ibibio language--which Williams spoke growing up in Nigeria--with a range of traditional West African music and more modern electronic sounds. While the band enjoys veering further into electronic territory with the help of mutuals like Hot Chip, Grunhard emphasizes, "For us, it's not just a matter of embracing new technology. What's key is to keep the music grounded in African roots." Ibibio Sound Machine best exemplify this on Electricity's "Freedom." That track was inspired by the water-drumming rhythms of Cameroon's Baka women, which in turn fueled its lyrics, which in turn prompted Hot Chip and Ibibio Sound Machine to layer joyfully kinetic electronic counterparts on top in the studio. As the track culminates with the mantra of "rage, hope, cope, soul," it's clear that Ibibio Sound Machine have channeled, harnessed, and distilled these words as guiding principles, both for the album and for the turbulent world that awaits it.
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