Bourelly at Frankfurter Messe this week.

Signing, meet and greet.

Friends

I’ll be at the Frankfurt music messe at the Warwick/Framus booth.

I’ll be there  the last Stone Raiders tour, the upcoming CD and about my custom 7 string Panthera (“Turbulence”) that thats all over the Stone Raiders CD.

 

 

 

 

 

Plus: a couple of copies advanced copies of Stone Raiders debut CD Truth to Power.

Come and say hi. Best.

4:00pm Jean-Paul Bourelly with Earl Slick

and Reggie Wooten

hall 4, floor 1, booth #12

The Education of Auma Obama music by Jean-Paul Bourelly

Nominated
AMAA 2012 BEST DIASPORA DOCUMENTARY
Last night, the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), the continent’s most prestigious awards for filmmakers announced the nominees in Banjul, the capital of Gambia, at an exclusive ceremony attended by celebrities, top government officials and capitals of industry from Gambia and other African countries. My film THE EDUCATION OF AUMA OBAMA was nominated in the category of best diaspora Documentary.
I am very happy! (quote from Director, Branwen Okpako)

Winner of the following awards.

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD at the Africa International Film festival in Lagos 2011
and
FESTIVAL FOUNDERS’ AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY
Panafrican Filmfestival in Los Angeles 2012
Director Branwen Okpako
Music by Jean-Paul Bourelly

Stone Raiders Album Tour Update Jan/Feb 2012

Renowned guitarist, singer and songwriter Jean-Paul Bourelly will embark on another vivifying tour as lead singer and guitarist with the group Stone Raiders in support of their upcoming debut album, Truth to Power. An album calling for the awakening of civilization through the mediums of Rock, Funk, Jazz and Soul. Afro-rock extraordinaire Will Calhoun on drums and Darryl “Munch” Jones(of Rolling Stones fame) on bass – whose vocals also adorn several tracks including ‘Power To Spirit’ – complete The Stone Raiders. Their debut offering is flowing with urgency with songs that gather the world’s inhabitants cry for justice and refine it into a compelling musical journey.

As the bands tour last summer preceded any recorded material, Jean-Paul and the rest of the band instilled a reverse distillation method to the album process. They used that tour as inspiration to work out the albums material. In the spirit of this process, advanced CD’s will be available exclusively at all Stone Raiders tour dates. Another bonus available only to concert goers.

Truth to Power may not be the cure to ‘The Money Disease’ – the closing track of the album – but it could be an eye opener to those unaware and a rallying cry to those who see it as clearly as Jean-Paul, Darryl and Will do.

Truth to Power will be released in April 2012 on Yellowbird Records, a division of the acclaimed German Jazz label Enja Records.

Read more about the band Stone Raiders.

Ongoing Tour!! BBT New Lanaguage

The evolution of Music/Language is mandatory for the development of humanity!

BBT New Language
BBT New Language

Take off on the spaceship earth. BBT New Language is here once again in search of sonic territories unknown.

Rhythms speaking to inner-planetary upheaval, globalism, artificial intelligence, and sonic migration.

Bourelly,Bowie and Tacuma – Three incredible musical souls in dialog with beat culture, historic black music, electronics and what is the new avant-garde?

“Drummer On Screen”

BBT New Language is:

  • Jean-Paul Bourelly: guitar, vocal, electronics
  • Joe Bowie: trombone, percussion, electronics, vocals
  • Jamaaladeen Takuma: electric bass
  • Gea Russell: turntables, samples, image projection

BBT Tour Dates Fall 2011

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Bourelly’s latest soundtrack, “The Education of Auma Obama”

Bourelly's soundtrack
In Toronto this week at the premier of a wonderful film about the sister of Barack. Film by Branwen Okpako, Soundtrack by Jean-Paul Bourelly: Come out and support the counter narrative:

TIFF screenings Venue Date Time
Public 1 AMC 6 09/09/11 02:15PM
Public 2 AMC 10 09/10/11 09:45AM
Public 3 AMC 7 09/18/11 10:15AM
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/educationofaumaobama