{"id":12211,"date":"2012-12-06T23:36:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/lifestyle\/?p=12211"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T09:25:33","slug":"nairobi-meets-in-lisbon-in-ten-cities-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/lifestyle\/2012\/12\/06\/nairobi-meets-in-lisbon-in-ten-cities-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi meets Lisbon in Ten Cities project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of the veterans of Kenya\u2019s pop music scene Just A Band, Camp Mulla, and Xtatic will be taking part in a massive project next year with a band of producers and DJs from Portugal\u2019s capital city, Lisbon.<\/p>\n

At a launch in Nairobi on Thursday, it was revealed that the project will be part of a bigger three year undertaking involving ten cities around the world, namely; Nairobi, Johannesburg, Lagos, Cairo, Luanda, Lisbon, Naples, Bristol, Kiev and Berlin.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, take the recent Berlin Nairobi project (BLNRB) and multiply it by five. This is what will be happening,\u201d said Johannes Hossfeld, director of Goethe-Institut Kenya, which is spearheading the initiative.<\/p>\n

The collaborations play like a social experiment of sorts, because apart from the merging music, research will be carried out in each of the cities to examine the club culture, urban space and public sphere and see how that links to the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s interesting how different the cultures are in each of these places and how they have a direct relation to the music there. This Ten Cities project will take a closer look into that,\u201d said Johannes.<\/p>\n

The main genre of the melodies will be electronic to mirror the emergence of this kind of music across the world, and it will only be distinguished by the cities\u2019 individual influences.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusyoka and another producer Raphael will be part of this project,\u201d said JAB\u2019s Blinky Bill, who was the curator for the Kenyan version of Ten Cities.<\/p>\n

Octa Push \u2013 who are brothers \u2013 will be visiting Nairobi in May 2013 with Lisbon counterpart Batida and Berlin\u2019s Jahcoozi, and work on their music in the city in the sun for up to three weeks.<\/p>\n