Joshua Thomson

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Member Since: 2/22/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/aashram
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Performing Live SXSW 2008 with Boubacar Diebate at the Copa Bar Austin, TX
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Boubacar Diebate Review: March 16th, 2008 from
SXSW Music: Day 4, The Brilliance of DeVotchKa by Phil Gallo/The Set List

Prior to them taking the stage, kora player Boubacar Diebate played a lengthy and engrossing set backed by electric guitar, upright bass and saxophone. Diebate, a native of Senegal who now lives in Boulder, Colo., arrived in Austin with no band and created the ensemble during his stay in town. The saxophonist, a new Austin arrival from Detroit named Joshua Thomson, met Diebate the day before the gig; no one was quite sure about the bassist's surname; and the guitarist, whose fulltime job is as bassist in Traore's band, became part of Diebate's ensemble and hour before showtime. Whatever criticisms I had about certain Western bass lines working better than others were tossed out soon after the show, a unique blending of skills and styles that existed for one night only.
http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2008/03/sxsw-day-4-the .html

Boubacar Diebate Review: SXSW March 16th, 2008
by Adrian from ipickmynose music from the left coast

I decided to catch Senegal’s Boubacar Diebate at the Global Rhythm showcase at Copa’s. He’s a master kora player and singer. His band included a Malian guitarist that Diebate said he’d met yesterday; he’d heard someone speaking one of the African languages that he understood and he started talking to him. It also included two Americans (I think), one on upright bass and one on alto sax. Despite the group being sort of slapped together, they played really well together. The communication on stage was spot on. There was a lot of smiles and laughs on stage. The band was really enjoying themselves. The show was something else. It really blew my socks off.
http://blog.ipickmynose.com
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Musical Influences:
John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Joe Henderson, Sam Rivers, James Brown, Gil-Scott Heron, Roy Ayers, Marven Gaye, The Temptations, Rufus Thomas, Dr. John, Donald Harrison, Stevie Wonder, Santana, The Allman Brothers, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Fela Kuti, Jackie McClain, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Byard Lancaster, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Prince, The Jacksons, John Cage, Mozart, Claude Debussy, John Cage, Nusrat Fat Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar, Munir Bashir, Chano Pozo, Chucho Valdes, The Ojay’s, Curtis Mayfield, Egberto Gismonti, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garret, Dave Brubeck, Tito Puente, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Meters, Miles Davis, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, Billy Cobham, George Duke, Weather Report, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Ramsey Lewis, The Roots, Erika Badu, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Public Enemy, KRS-1, Biggie Smalls, 2pac, Outkast, Rage Against the Machine, RHCP, MMW, EST, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Bill Frizell, ECM and Actuel labels, Dirty Dozen and Rebirth Brass Bands The Roots and more..
Recent Musical Influences:
Gnawa tribal music, traditional berber polyrhythms and musical forms, Galician bagpipes, Andalucian gitano flamenco, moroccan pop music, Daraga, Anjelique Kidjo, Catalunyan classical music, and the music of Iran.
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