“I’d be like, ‘If I ever play this type of music, I would play it like this.’” I’m having fun doing something different that I always kind of wanted to do,” Houston said. “It’s stuff that I’m used to listening to but I never got a chance to express. Houston said Toubab Krewe gives him a chance to explore a kind of musical style he didn’t have the opportunity to experiment with in the New Orleans scene. “I got the gig with George Porter, Jr.’s band Runnin’ Pardners and, along the way, met up with Toubab and here I am today with Toubab, having some fun.”
ISIS MUSIC HALL PROFESSIONAL
“I became a professional musician by way of New Orleans,” Houston said. While their sound has always been influenced by the music of Guinea, the Ivory Coast and Mali, featuring traditional instruments like the kora, kamel ngoni and djembe, the addition of New Orleans-via-Baton Rouge drummer Terrence Houston last September has added some bayou flavor to the band’s musical melting pot. Part of the new inspiration may come from lineup changes the Krewe has undergone over the years since their last studio album TK2 dropped in 2010. The last two weeks have been really cool, working on new ideas and just finding new inspiration, a new direction.” “Every time we go in the studio and write new music, we have a great time. We’ve been looking forward to that time for a while, so we’ve just been getting a whole bunch of new ideas going,” Quaranta said. We’ve been in Atlanta the past couple of weeks working on the new album, recording a whole bunch of new music for that. The group had hoped to include musical aspects inspired by Día de los Muertos, but their schedule has been packed in preparation for their upcoming third studio album. It’s nice to bring something new that’s either visually or intellectually stimulating.” “It was just something we’d never done, so we thought it would be a nice thing to do for Halloween. 1 and it was really amazing walking up and down the street and hanging with people and seeing what everyone did for it down there since the culture’s really thick down there,” Quaranta said. Justin Perkins plays the kora during the show at Isis Music Hall last Thursday and Friday.Īlthough the group stuck mainly to their usual routine musically, they conceived the visual theme after spending some time in Arizona for the fabled Mexican holiday. The Krewe’s kind of bigger than the sum of its parts.” Photo by Scott Woody – Contributor Even our repertoire kind of has a lot of freedom to just come out a different way every night. “We bring the dance party and just get into the spirit of live music. “I guess at our core we’re a party band,” said percussionist Luke Quaranta. The Krewe drew a huge crowd on Halloween, laying down the rhythms that got the roomful of costumed concertgoers dancing. Local West African-inspired instrumental group Toubab Krewe played a two-night Día de los Muertos-themed show on Thursday and Friday night, complete with Mexican-style skeletal face paint. When a horde of skeletons took the stage on Halloween night at the Isis Music Hall, the crowd that packed the building did not flee in terror. By Max Miller – – Staff Writer Photo by Scott Woody – Contributorĭrew Keller plays guitar during the show at Isis Music Hall.
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