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Coolooloosh Leads the Pack at US Premiere and MLK Tribute - Drom - NYC

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Coolooloosh, Y-Love, Afro-Semitic Experience
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Drom NYC

Coolooloosh US Premiere and MLK Tribute
with Y-Love and Afro-Semitic Experience

85 Avenue A, NY (212)777-1157
Doors at 7 Show at 8
Tickets: $15 in Advance

Hosted by: Brice, Erez, and Alex

Israeli Funk Hip-Hop band, Coolooloosh lands at Drom NYC for their US Premiere. Y-Love and Afro-Semitic Experience round out the bill for a special night of musical tribute to the late, great Martin Luther King.



Top African American Jewish artists with varied musical styles share their love of Music, Judaism and Martin Luther King. In honor of MLK they will be performing live and original Funk, Gospel and Hip Hop.

Recently at the invitation of Grammy nominated engineer/producer David Ivory (The Roots, Patti Labelle, Erykah Badu) Coolooloosh will travel to the US in January of 2008 to begin pre-production and the tracking of their new full length album with Ivory at the helm. “These guys are really something special and unique. When my associate brought them to my attention, it was a no-brainer that I had to work with them" stated Ivory.

Suitably named “Coolooloosh", a Jerusalemite word for celebration and joy; this is precisely what the band exhumes with each and every exciting performance. Wooing fans around the world with their intelligent blend of genres, Coolooloosh combining Hip Hop, Rap, Jazz, and Funk, is one of Israel's most popular groups, and is one of the very few well known emerging acts that can pull it off. Consistently, pushing the envelope, the band is destined to break internationally.



Y-Love (Yitz Jordan), Hasidic Hip Hop Superstar, an MC unlike any other; weaving seamless polyglot rhymes in English, Arabic, Yiddish, and Hebrew. His music bridges influence from ancient text, African Rhythms, and the rhyme style of Busta Rhymes, Common and Mos Def. At the 2006 Jewish Music Awards, Y-Love took home the award for “Best Hip Hop Artist". This March the world will see the release of Y-Love's major debut, “This is Babylon".



Afro-Semitic Experience: “Imagine Charles Mingus sitting in with a Klezmer band, playing Gospel music set to the polyrhythmic pace of the congas and bongos . . . a whoopin', hollerin', testifyin' celebration of multicultural soul music." --Carlos Ramos, The Rainbow Reporter

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