By Coconuts Manila | Coconuts Manila – Fri, Jan 17, 2014 4:37 PM PHT
Jazz artist Mishka Adams and house music DJ Erwin Edralin are two more local talents confirmed to participate in the fourth edition of Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival next month, says festival director DJ Miro Grgic.
They will be sharing the stage with legends Roy Ayers and Lonnie Liston Smith, as well as widely known and respected musicians José Gonzalez and Mad Professor.
At a press lunch yesterday in Sofitel Philippine Plaza, the 34-year-old Croatian-Australian sound engineer and manager behind the festival, staged annually with the beautiful Mount Malasimbo near Puerto Galera in Mindoro as backdrop, said that this year's highlights is not necessarily about big names.
It's about performers who stay true to the festival's origin as a roots and reggae event, and music that will complement the grass amphitheater venue. "We tried playing rock music there before but it didn't work," explained Grgic.
"We know you all want Erykah Badu, but this is the closest we can get to her," he joked as he announced the participation of 73-year-old Ayers, vibraphone player and pioneer of Neo Soul who has been a major influence on Badu's music.
Another performer, American jazz pianist and Grammy winner Robert Glasper of Robert Glasper Experiment, has been producing music for the American singer-songwriter and actress.
Joining Ayers is his contemporary and fellow soul-jazz fusion pioneer Lonnie Liston Smith.
Other crowd drawers include indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist José Gonzalez (Sweden), vocalist and spritual jazz and jazz funk pioneer MBE Omar (UK), downtempo guy Jordan Rakei (Australia) and rasta dub musician Mad Professor (Guyana).
Also peforming are Osunlade (US), Greg Wilson (UK), Mark de Clive-Lowe (LA), Low Leaf (UK), as well as June Marieezy and Heavy Boogie, both based in Manila.
Malasimbo Music and Arts Festival was first staged in 2011 to a crowd of 1,500 music lovers. This year, the organizers are targetting 6,000 attendees, 1,500 more from last year. It will last for five days, compared to last year's three.
One of the festival's firsts is a "Boracay goes to Malasimbo" travel package to lure in tourists in the famous white beach, with live-aboard accommodations.
Another one is a collaboration tent which will have a recording studio, a place where local musicians can work with foreign perfumers.
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