8:30pm | $8.00 advance $8.00 day of show
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"We speak one language now," says Sierra Leonian singer Janka Nabay of the band he calls the "Bubu Gang," an eclectic group of New York-based musicians (culled from experimental pop groups such as Gang Gang Dance and Chairlift) who fell in love with Janka's frenetic style of "bubu" dance music following the 2010 release of the Bubu King EP on True Panther Sounds. The band has started infusing bubu music with a broader range of stylistic influences, and Janka has evolved into an inspired and fierce band-leader and MC in the great tradition of James Brown and Fela Kuti.

The new sounds draw as much from Janka's indigenous bubu as they do from the sunny energy of Ghanaian highlife, the extended improvisations of 70s Miles Davis, the hypnotic rhythms of classic Afro-beat and the swirling shredding guitars of 60s and 70s psychedelia. The "An Letah" EP on True Panther Sounds, released in March 2012, will be followed by a full-length this August on David Byrne's label Luaka Bop!

Check out a track from the forthcoming full length: