JAMARAM & ACOUSTIC NIGHT ALLSTARS I'm Ready - official video clip video free download

JAMARAM & ACOUSTIC NIGHT ALLSTARS - "I'm Ready"

taken from the album "Heavy Heavy"

© music and lyrics: Jamaram & Acoustic Night Allstars

a movie made by passt schon productions

editing: Murxen Alberti

camera: Murxen Alberti, Hannes Beblo, Thomas Herget

actress: Isabel Schwartz

animal design: Nik Thäle

thanks to: Jan Röder and his studio crew

In May 2012, JAMARAM got their first invitation to Harare/Zimbabwe for HIFA (Harare International Festival of the Arts). A festival where artists of all genres from across the globe perform, intermingle and create something new. Bands, choirs, theatre groups, painters, dancers, pantomime … open-air stages, clubs, theatre, the street - everywhere becomes a stage - a whole city is thrown into the creative maelstrom.

In the midst of this colourful hustle and bustle, JAMARAM came across the ACOUSTIC NIGHT ALLSTARS. The ACOUSTIC NIGHT ALLSTARS are a group of young, high-calibre singers who appear once a month at the Acoustic Night to perform their latest songs to each other and a small audience and so showcase the young generation of musicians in Harare.

They worked together perfectly: within a few hours they had their first joint songs and only two days later they were playing together to a crowd of 4,000 on the main stage at HIFA.

The next year, 2013, JAMARAM brought the ACOUSTIC NIGHT ALLSTARS over to Germany for a joint tour of 20 gigs in venues across the country. The show was a huge hit and the audiences went wild. (This is all to be seen in the film “JAMARARM & ACOUSTIC NIGHT ALLSTARS on tour”.)

Demands for a recording of the joint numbers grew louder from concert to concert.

Finally, in the summer of 2014, it happened: With a big effort and the support of the Goethe-Institut, the City of Munich (Department of Arts and Culture) and the international Artist Residence Villa Waldberta it was managed to finance flights to Germany and accommodation for six singers.

So here on this album you have various songs from different songwriters but they’ve been brought to life and recorded by everyone together. The usual reggae-sound was set aside. Instead, traditional African sounds mingle with soul, hiphop and swing.

For the JAMARAM musicians it’s been a wonderful experiment and journey into a new musical world.

At the same time, it’s a testimony to friendship across borders and boundaries.

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