Thievery Corporation emerges as a strong, independent voice of dissent
October 6th, 2009 by Alejandro A. Leal in music briefs
THIEVERY CORPORATION: $36. 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 11. Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St. 404-659-9022. www.livenation.com.
The current global economic climate serves as the perfect backdrop to Thievery Corporation’s evolution from a DJ/production outfit into a world-music collective with a loud voice of dissent, capped by the release of last year’s Radio Retaliation.
“Vampires,” the group’s collaboration with Afrobeat singer and band leader Femi Kuti, is a metaphorical indictment of the bête noire of international activists, the International Monetary Fund. “You live on the blood of my people/Everyone knows you’ve come to steal/You come like the thieves in the night/The whole world is ready to fight.”
The rest of the album furthers Thievery Corporation’s affinity for world musicians, continuing what has become its signature production style of incorporating non-Western instruments and composing in distinct, non-Western harmonies, laced over head-nodding, boom-bap beats.
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Download “The Shining Path” – from Radio Retaliation.
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