THURSDAY NIGHT CONFIDENTIAL @ THE GLADSTONE
LIVE! Music * NO COVER EVER!

TablaHYPE
presents

tabla-CO-lab
featuring

LAL, THE TABLA GUY, SASSA'LE

Date: Thursday December 17th, 2009
Time: 10pm - 2am
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. W., Toronto ON
3rd Thursday of the Month

tabla-CO-lab :: Thursday December 17th, 2009

December's, tabla-CO-lab friends come together for a night of great live music featuring LAL, THE TABLA GUY and SASSA'LE (Version Xcursion). Soulful down-tempo soundscapes, cross-continental rhythms, heavy bass lines and dynamic percussive beats.

Stay tuned for more information regarding tabla-CO-lab events: Next date January 21st, 2010

What is tabla-CO-lab?

tabla-CO-lab is an exclusive event of live performance collaborations presented by TablaHYPE. Venture into the uncharted territories of expression and musical dialogue between instrumentalists, vocalists, djs and Gurpreet Chana with his Tabla and arsenal of percussion instruments. Together they will combine their musical and cultural backgrounds to explore all styles of music. These confidential collaborations will come to life the third Thursday of the month on the stage of the legendary Melody Bar @ The Gladstone Hotel.

What is Thursday Night Confidential?

Thursday Night Confidential is hosted by the Gladstone Hotel and feature multiple bands and performers each week co-presented by established independent music promoters and partnering beverage sponsors. The series will take place in the Gladstone's Melody Bar that has, after all, been rockin the hood since 1889! 

What is TablaHYPE?

TablaHYPE is a Toronto based Live Entertainment Service company, providing services ranging from end-to-end live entertainment, event production, artist management and development, niche marketing, public and media relations and event consulting.  TablaHYPE was first established in 1999 as the management company for Canadian artist Gurpreet Chana, The Tabla Guy.  As Gurpreet's career boasted success as a solo artist, so did that of TablaHYPE's as an Entertainment Service company.

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The Artists:

LAL http://www.lalforest.com, http://www.myspace.com/lalforest
LAL is a collective of musicians representing Uganda, Bangladesh, Barbados, and India featuring vocalist Rosina Kazi, laptop musician, Nicholas “Murr” Murray, and bassist Ian de Sousa. With a strong belief in the link between art and social change, the group has developed their own unique sound over the last decade, fusing South-Asian roots, West Indian fruits, and melancholic vocals with jazz sensibilities, hip hop influences, down tempo grooves, broken soul, and electro. Weaving their distinct sound with lyrical, socially conscious poetry, LAL has produced two full length albums, Corners (2002), and Warm Belly High Power (2004), which was awarded the best soul album in 2004 by Exclaim, Canada’s premier music magazine. They have also performed in a wide variety of festivals and impressive venues across Canada, Europe, Cuba and Pakistan, and have been recognized with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts and Toronto Arts Councils, for composing and recording in 2006 /2007. LAL continues to bring you even more captivating material with the release of their latest record, Deportation (spring 2008), which may be their most impressive work to date. 

GURPREET CHANA [THE TABLA GUY] http://www.thetablaguy.com, http://www.myspace.com/thetablaguy
It all started from banging his hands on pots and pans or anything else he could get his hands on to hear and feel the beat. His grandfather Kesar Singh Chana saw this enthusiasm and gave him his first Tabla set and since that moment 29 years ago, there has been no looking back.  Gurpreet has been taught in the Punjab Gharana (style) from his Ustad Ji Professor Parshotam Singh.  His passion for percussion has taken him to perform at many music concerts and festivals around the globe.  From constantly creating and collaborating amongst his peers, Gurpreet's music has been repeatedly requested and more importantly remembered for its distinctive sound and moving beats.  This has led him to perform and record with artists such as Nelly Furtado, Wyclef Jean, legendary UK DJ/ Producer Bally Sagoo, Juno Award winning Kiran Ahluwalia, The Bombay Dub Orchestra, Jorane, DJ Rekha, and open for Pete Rock and Lady Sovereign. 

VERSION XCURSION http://www.versionxcursion.com
VERSION XCURSION a.k.a. SASSA'LE and ARAM SCARAM continue to break boundaries and concepts in pushing the music they love - DUB.  Their former radio program on CKLN 88.1 FM established itself for 11 years in the community and internationally as a source for dub music both new and old, and for pushing new and exciting Canadian sounds. As producers they have 4 releases to date.  Currently they are working on their fifth release "VX Past & Present", a collection of previous releases, unreleased remixes and new material scheduled for release soon. As promoters and djs they are involved in two monthlies. The four year strong Dub & Beyond, has seen the likes of J Star (London, UK), Rob Smith (Britol, UK), J.Boogie (San Francisco, USA) and Big Toes Hi-Fi (Edinburgh, Scotland).  VX also team up with Natewize, Prince Blanco, Rednote and the Dubmatix Soundsystem for their monthly Dub Collective parties.  Look and listen out for VX as they take their sound to radio and dance floors worldwide.
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