Uber Lingua at the Bellingen Global Carnival 2007 Renowned for their weekly events in Sydney & Melbourne alongside many others around the country, Uber Lingua was recently invited to its first international festival in Tijuana Mexico promoting their inclusive international music aesthetic, associated video work and Australia's contribution to the outernational culture movement. Other mid-2007 ventures by UL DJs have included trips to Chile, Brasil, Peru, San Francisco, New York, Jamaica, Ireland, UK, Italy, France, Spain, NZ, Japan and Canada as part of their continuous mission to gather international sonics and grass roots level connections the world over, alongside some rampant disc spinning. Last summer UL presented stages at the Laneway festivals in Sydney and Melbourne, and presented multiple one off events around the country including the Sydney and Melbourne Funk Balls that have raised around $10,000 for the street kids in Brasil. UL's involvement in the carnival features a selection of our Sydney and Melbourne DJs who come from a network much larger. MCs, video & lighting artists plus a few instrumentalists have been swept into the equation to create something quite intense... Both Uber sessions will be all-in sound system stylee! Alongside this, a mini film fest of killer international film and video work 'Rogue State', and the new 'Ya Lingo!' multi-lingual MC game show will reveal other ways Uber Lingua has been spending it's time. goto www.globalcarnival.comfor
all event and ticket info
The Uber crew this year are: 
Presyse RifRaf RifRaf is Uber's Zimbabwean vocal talent. Performing in his native tounge of Shona as well as English, he's performed to crowds multiple times during his time living in Melbourne including the Afrobeats festival and more recently as part of the first ever Ya Lingo! MC Cipher at BMW Edge, Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival 2007. A Rhythmic assasin, RifRaf glides verbally over his DJs like an african sonic boxer...
SDzeit Melbourne based Dom Evans is VJ Sdzeit (pronounced 'state') and has been actively generating digital light for the past two years at Kent Street's 'Plug n Play' and at all of the bigger UberLingua events in Melbourne during that time. He also worked with Barcelona based cultural conjuerer 'Filastine' when he toured Australia in '06, performing video work at both the Melbourne and Sydney show. His work combines his illitrative art, sampled imagery, self made animations
and other elements, often flowing between dark abstraction, urban psychogeographics
and scientific surrealism. His work with Uber Lingua is sensitive to the
cultural intersections that are being exlored and the collisions of ancient
worlds with the modern hi tech... the results are stunning. Dom is also
currently in his final year studying animation
Potato Master Post-Japanese Brisbane MC Potato MasterÇ sings, raps & raga MCs in Japanese, broken English and Gibberish alongside creating abstract beats for himself & DJing what he describes as 'funny music'. His style is deliberately out of control and is one of the most infectiously hilarious performances available toAustralia's East Coast, and VERY Japanese. In 2002 he joined 19-t records in Kyoto Japan, and toured Europe with them in '03. In '05 he moved to Australia and linked up with locals including equally zany hip-hop crew 'Curse Ov Dialect', Brisbane's Anglo-Asian dub system 'Taste of tea', DJ Skyfish, Heavy weight champions and the 'Lao mirador' reggae radio show on Vegas's legendary 4ZZZ. He also became a central vocal entity in Uber Lingua Sound Sytem and has toured Melbourne twice, once as the headline artist at St Jeromes. He literally brought the house down with his solid beats, ultra-precise raps and hysterical ways...
Mr Fish Born on Reunion Island, where African music is part of everyday life, Mr Fish moved to France in the 80's. He was involved in the creation of the electronic music Borelais festival in the south of France, he then moved on to play & live in Sweden, Germany, Holland and finally London in 1997, before moving to Melbourne in 2005. In '99 he joined the groovÇnÇbass movement with his friend Eric Soul,incorporating African rhythms with hip hop grooves and techniques such as scratching into his sets... Since moving to Melbourne he has become a part of the furniture at Uber Lingua events as resident Afrobeat specialist at the weekly club nights, mixing in the music of the French world* playing the Melbourne Afrobeats Festival and Laneway Festival Melbourne in 2007.
bP With cultural diversity his primary passion, Australian DJ/producer 'bP' (Brendan Palmer) has been representing the musically 'not so represented' for nearing two decades. He has wandered the world gathering sounds and has performed in places as diverse as Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, London, Tijuana, Mexico city and Helsinki to name a few... In 2004 he launched Uber Lingua and his sonic activity has grown exponentially playing literally hundreds of gigs and promoting culturally charged music in most capital cities of Australia. bP's sets traverse language, culture, genre, history and social scenes; deliberately defiant of mainstream music fashions, he presents an intersection of underground and outernational sounds that capture his imagination. Roots to Futurism, East to West, Minimal to Maximal are all sonic stops on bP's translingual express. Brendan additionally works as a producer at the legendary Melbourne radio station Triple R during the day and presents the weekly 'Dialectic' radio program on the web and Tasmania's Edge Radio.
sakamoiz tri-lingual DJ and emerging wordsmith sakamoiz is a post-Swiss pseudo-Mexican Tasmanian rogue, and his nomadic lifestyle benefits one of the planet's most sonically eclectic and linguistically diverse music collections. In July 2007 sakamoiz toured Mexico DJing as he went, and featuring as a guest on Tijuana public TV and cable, and on Radio Chanulpom, a Mayan community radio station. In 2004 sakamoiz presented Uber Lingua's 6 Tasmanian 'Lingo' parties in Hobart, touring mainland DJs from the north and also promoting local multicultural live performers and selectors. He also started the Dialectic Radio show on Edge Radio that has become Uber Lingua's central radio outlet. Since moving to Melbourne he co-promted the Rogue State weekly event and has also worked as a journalist at SBS Radio.
Aysu Fevziye Cogur Aysu Fevziye CogurÇs first public appearance as a singer was at the age of 13 in front of an audience of 500. Since then Aysu has gone on to extraordinary heights with her music career. This began with her band Funk the Distance, and more recently with Aysu Soulz, Gypsy Crims and Zaray. Aysu has also madeappearances with bands and DJÇs including the Gotan Project (France) during their visit to Melbourne in early 07. She has performed in countless bars and venues in Melbourne and has been a DJ since the age of 18. As an Australian Turk, her sets with Uber Lingua focus on global underground artists that influence her own music. AysuÇs enchanting voice and inspiring lyrics embrace almost every musical genre available to her. Hip Hop vocalism is a natural progression from her as it draws from her passion for the Turkish language.
Mashy P Mashy P has been active in Sydney's underground playing, remixing and creating left-field beats from hip hop and dub to electro and techno since arriving from England in 1987. A few years back he travelled to Qatar and remixed local radio broadcasts putting together arabesque electro, beats and drum 'n bass. Since then, he's begun producing global music influenced electronic music, and has DJed at Uber Lingua parties in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide alongside running the Sydney residencies since 2005. Most recently he toured Mexico, Canada and the USA gathering music.
Pataphysics Tamil & Singhalese speaking Australian-Sri Lankan Pataphysics is
an MC, trumpet player, sonic landscaper & rhythmic sound shaper. He
began rapping in Singhalese a few years ago as an excellent way to learn
his mother tongue, performing as a solo artist and with Uber Lingua, Astro
Flava and the Ubiquitous Dub Legitimizers. With a history that's seen him
perform alongside the likes of Megabias, Elf Transporter, Combat
Wombat, Illzilla, Nicky Bomba, TZU, Jeff Lang and the Agency Dub Collective,
PataphysicsÇ raps deal with everything from local & international politics,
indigenous resistance and dreaming to eastern philosophy, existence and
spirituality. His live shows draw deeply on
Stu Buchanan Hailing originally from Scotland, Stuart Buchanan is the host of the international music show, FAT PLANET on Sydney's FBi Radio and editor of the popular international music blog, fatplanet.com.au . A comrade of the international and multi-lingual music movement, Stuart has become deeply involved in Uber Lingua over the last couple of years, DJing baile funk, dancehall, afro hiphop, reggaeton, Baltimore, kuduro, bhangra, balkan beats and much more at the Sydney residencies and at the 2007 Laneway festival in Melbourne.
Simon Winkler Journalist, selector and occasional debater... Simon has been handed the role of game show host for our YA LINGO! project... a role he embraces with zest and passion. Roll that dice Simon! and last minute recruit
Kieron Ruffles who saved the day...
YA LINGO! A multi-lingual MC game show cipher by Uber Lingua Eight of Australia's best MCs and vocalists with non-English backgrounds rap in their mother tongue... competition style... woven within the carnival program. One rule: no English allowed! A dice determined the order of appearance, selector bP drops the beats, an interpreter converts what their verses into a common lingo for crowd and competitor. Heats determine the pecking order with the audience deciding the winner each time... a final two emerge and take each other on in the decider... Spanish! Swiss German! Japanese! Shona! Turkish! Singhalese! amoungst others It's trans-lingual competition at it's extremes... Ya Lingo!
ROGUE STATE : Music Is The Weapon : Film The Medium A trans-cultural, socially switched on moving image mini-fest presented by Uber Lingua. Rogue State includes real life documentaries by some of the worlds most conscious musicians and pro-active film makers, alongside multi-lingual music clips from the world's grass roots to the street and back, plus a bit of international cheese for a bit of random fun... Spotlighting individuals who tap into the front line connections many musicians of the planet have with locally based social progress and global change, those who combine this raw communication with the moving image to generate an even wider impact. Content for this festival has been sourced over the past three years alongside Uber LinguaÇs music and many of the works will be screened in Australia for the first time.
Music can be sent to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia |
