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Bint El Funk
with Shifra Rifka
$15 advance, $20 door
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srael's בינת אל פאנק Bint El Funk Toronto Debut!
The next instalment of Polyphonic Ground’s concert series features Ashkenaz Festival and Small World Music Society teaming up to co-present the Canadian premiere of Israel's next breakout world music sensation, Bint El Funk (Daughter of Funk). The group combines American-style funk with traditional Jewish Yemenite music, influenced by Afro beat, jazz, Mediterranean music, psychedelic-Turkish music and more. Alongside Yemenite texts are love songs, social protest songs, Bedouin nonsense, and poetry. The group's performances evoke a tribal party, with sounds, rhythms, colors, and scents uniting in a feast for the senses that connects Sana’a in Yemen, Harlem in the US, and the Shaariya neighborhood in Petach Tikva, Israel. Over the last few years Bint El Funk has built a loyal following at clubs and music festivals all over Israel and is now poised for breakout success on the world stage. This event is also presented as the kickoff event of the 4th Spotlight on Israeli Culture Festival.
Shifra Rifka
Opening the night, Shifra Rifka is music producer, sound artist, and DJ, whose sets span all genres from house to industrial to disco, incorporating her own edits, original compositions and improvised material. Her debut EP, "Land of Milk and Honey" probes what it means to miscommunicate and understand, with abstract takes on traditional house that serve as much as social commentary as they do an inventive approach to the classic genre. Quirky samples of household items like pitched down dishwashers are no strangers to these experimental soundscapes. As she puts it, "I enjoy creating things that compositionally might be messy or unappealing to listen to. I like to acknowledge the convention, and deliberately diverge to see what will happen."