Kid Koala
Victoria Ska & Reggae Festival
Victoria Curling Club
1952 Quadra St
Jun 24, 2023
9:00 PM PDT
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Victoria Ska s true titans on the mic, BROTHER ALI, back to Victoria for the first time in 6 years and for the first time on our stage. Ever since his first release on the legendary Rhymesayers label more than 20 years ago, Brother Ali has represented the most powerful aspects of hip-hop and hip-hop culture. Possessing one of the smoothest flows in rap, he delivers his deeply thoughtful, often times brilliant and sometimes hilarious, rhymes with an unmatched passion and joy. His shows are literal celebrations of life the glory and love, the struggle and despair, all of it. A community activist and speaker, when Brother Ali is on stage with a mic in his hand, he knows how to connect with the people in front of him.Also taking the Victoria Ska s most-beloved DJs and musical innovators, KID KOALA.. In the vast world of scratching, there are few scratchers who use turntables like an instrument the way Kid Koala does. His sets traverse genres and perform a delicate balance of pleasingly familiar music and thrillingly new ideas and deliveries. His precise, lightning-fast cuts combined with his endlessly creative musical mind, have made him an endearing legend, bringing fans of all musical genres together and showing them how it all fits together even if it seems like it might not. Come, One and all! To one of the straight-up coolest evenings of music on the schedule this year.
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Émilie
December 10th 2024
Wonderful show. Similar to Storyville Mosquito. A real "tour de force" from an impressive creative team.
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Kid Koala Biography
Kid Koala is a world-renowned scratch DJ, music producer, composer, and award winning graphic novelist. He has released five solo albums, the most recent being 'Music To Draw To: Satellite" featuring Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini. He has also released two graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall and Space Cadet. He has also been involved in collaborations such as Gorillaz, Deltron 3030, and The Slew.
Kid Koala has toured with the likes of Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, Arcade Fire, Money Mark, A Tribe Called Quest, Mike Patton, DJ Shadow, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has contributed to scores for the films Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Looper and The Great Gatsby and Baby Driver. He has composed music for The National Film Board of Canada, the Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, and Adult Swim. He has also been commissioned to create music for runway shows for Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten. Kid Koala’s unforgettable live shows range from silly touring turntable carnivals like Short Attention Span Theater (featuring turntable bingo) and Vinyl Vaudeville (including puppets and dancers) to quiet-time events like Music To Draw To, Space Cadet Headphone Experience, Satellite Turntable Orchestra, and Nufonia Must Fall, a live animated graphic novel created performed, filmed, projected, and scored in real time using 5 cameras, 20 sets, 47 puppets, a string quartet, and Kid Koala on piano, turntable and percussion.
He lives in Montreal with his wife and two daughters.
Read MoreKid Koala has toured with the likes of Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, Arcade Fire, Money Mark, A Tribe Called Quest, Mike Patton, DJ Shadow, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has contributed to scores for the films Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Looper and The Great Gatsby and Baby Driver. He has composed music for The National Film Board of Canada, the Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, and Adult Swim. He has also been commissioned to create music for runway shows for Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten. Kid Koala’s unforgettable live shows range from silly touring turntable carnivals like Short Attention Span Theater (featuring turntable bingo) and Vinyl Vaudeville (including puppets and dancers) to quiet-time events like Music To Draw To, Space Cadet Headphone Experience, Satellite Turntable Orchestra, and Nufonia Must Fall, a live animated graphic novel created performed, filmed, projected, and scored in real time using 5 cameras, 20 sets, 47 puppets, a string quartet, and Kid Koala on piano, turntable and percussion.
He lives in Montreal with his wife and two daughters.
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