Archive for April, 2009
Buraka Som Sistema at the Rickshaw in San Francisco
On April - 21 - 2009
MC Blaya, foto by SF Weekly
Tuesday, April 21
SAN FRANCISCO – I show up at 8 p.m. at the Rickshaw wearing a comfortable black dress and boots cuz tonight is gonna be an ass-shakin night with Buraka Som Sistema – Lil’ John, Riot and Conductor, and MC Kalaf. I’ve seen their videos on YouTube (along with 1.7 million other viewers), and I think what I love most about them is feeling like I’ve got three feet, and each of them is stomping inside three different countries simultaneously…Portugal, Angola and Brazil. What? A Femmebot can have three feet. Some of us have three boobs too. And when we dance to this music….ay ya yay.
Fellow Frisco Femmebot Erricka X is with me although she may have to bounce to see Guyanese songstress Melanie Fiona at 330 Ritch, one my old dark and dingy drum n bass haunts, but now…OMG! It’s like totally gentrified and the floors are DID (used to be cold concrete). They even have bottle service…My Ami style, OH WOW.
Anyways, Erricka does eventually bounce, and I am left on my own. This will be my first live show on my own…hmmm…what does it all mean???
