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"Beirut’s most infamous crate-digger, Ernesto Chahoud has the rarest of rare groove and the most ethio-jazz smarts in the Middle East. Catch him fling psychedelic cumbia or euphoric tarab across the dancefloor like it was bread to the pigeons."
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A clubnight held at The Jam Jar on Saturday 16th April. The event starts at 20:00.
La Bomba presents Ernesto Chahoud (Beirut Groove Collective)
John Stapleton / Boom Operator
Jam Jar, Little Ann Street, Bristol BS2 9EB Saturday 16th April 2022
8pm - 1am Tickets £8 advance from Headfirst
Last September we brought Ernesto Chahoud down to Bristol for our first post-lockdown show, and now he's back!
Ernesto Chahoud is an internationally-renowned DJ, compiler and music researcher from Beirut who aims to bring the rarest and sometimes strangest records to people’s ears.
He co-founded the Beirut Groove Collective, a decade-old vinyl DJ collective that runs Beirut’s hippest weekly party, the BGC All-Nighter, where obscure 1960s and 1970s clubbing records from around the world can be heard. A serious record collector, Chahoud has one of the largest vinyl collections in the Middle East. Specialising in Arabic and Ethiopian music, his taste for little-known gems and obscure dancefloor stompers for his DJ box has taken him on digging trips around the world, from Addis Ababa to Cairo. He also owns owns Darsko, a record shop in Lebanon stocking rare vinyl cuts from disco bellydance and tarab to jazz, funk, soul and afrobeat.
In 2018, UK label BBE released Chahoud’s compilation ‘Taitu’, a 24-track collection of songs from the dancefloors of Addis Ababa in the 1970s, with a second volume on the cards soon.
He has regular radio shows on two London-based internet stations, NTS and Totally Wired Radio, as well as the Palestinian Radio Al Hara, which launched during the first COVID lockdown in early 2020. He was also featured on the first Boiler Room show from Lebanon.
La Bomba residents John Stapleton and Boom Operator play afrobeat, afro funk, cumbia, boogaloo and other flavours of funky vinyl from around the world.
https://boilerroom.tv/recording/ernesto-chahoud
https://www.bbemusic.com/artist/ernesto-chahoud/
Entry requirements:
John Stapleton / Boom Operator
Jam Jar, Little Ann Street, Bristol BS2 9EB Saturday 16th April 2022
8pm - 1am Tickets £8 advance from Headfirst
Last September we brought Ernesto Chahoud down to Bristol for our first post-lockdown show, and now he's back!
Ernesto Chahoud is an internationally-renowned DJ, compiler and music researcher from Beirut who aims to bring the rarest and sometimes strangest records to people’s ears.
He co-founded the Beirut Groove Collective, a decade-old vinyl DJ collective that runs Beirut’s hippest weekly party, the BGC All-Nighter, where obscure 1960s and 1970s clubbing records from around the world can be heard. A serious record collector, Chahoud has one of the largest vinyl collections in the Middle East. Specialising in Arabic and Ethiopian music, his taste for little-known gems and obscure dancefloor stompers for his DJ box has taken him on digging trips around the world, from Addis Ababa to Cairo. He also owns owns Darsko, a record shop in Lebanon stocking rare vinyl cuts from disco bellydance and tarab to jazz, funk, soul and afrobeat.
In 2018, UK label BBE released Chahoud’s compilation ‘Taitu’, a 24-track collection of songs from the dancefloors of Addis Ababa in the 1970s, with a second volume on the cards soon.
He has regular radio shows on two London-based internet stations, NTS and Totally Wired Radio, as well as the Palestinian Radio Al Hara, which launched during the first COVID lockdown in early 2020. He was also featured on the first Boiler Room show from Lebanon.
La Bomba residents John Stapleton and Boom Operator play afrobeat, afro funk, cumbia, boogaloo and other flavours of funky vinyl from around the world.
https://boilerroom.tv/recording/ernesto-chahoud
https://www.bbemusic.com/artist/ernesto-chahoud/
Entry requirements:
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