Justin Adams and Mauro Durante: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023

For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival - Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
Bob Boilen | January 30, 2023
Hosted by Angélique Kidjo, the series echoes globalFEST’s live flagship event in spirit but is centered in the framework of the Tiny Desk concert series. This collaboration presents exclusive video performances from nine artists filmed in their respective homelands, on the road and in exile all over the world. There will be three nights of concerts, each featuring three bands, on consecutive nights beginning Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. ET. The globalFEST team wrote the following biographical information about each performer.
Justin Adams & Mauro Durante, UK / Italy
Justin Adams & Mauro Durante released an award-winning debut album, Still Moving, in 2021, moving from serene minimalism to wild catharsis. Adams (producer of Tinariwen’s breakout albums and guitarist with Robert Plant) plays with a post-punk guitar approach enriched by his passion for Arabic music and African trance blues, while Durante is a sought-after violinist and percussionist and leader of southern Italy’s acclaimed Canzionere Grecanico Salentino, who performed its iconic taranta and pizzica dance songs at globalFEST in 2012.
SET LIST
“Talassa"
"Cupa Cupa"
"Dark Road Down"
MUSICIANS
Justin Adams
Mauro Durante
CREDITS
Producer: Run Productions
Audio: Yanna Plougoulm, Antonin Volson
Video: Samuel Volson, Camera Silens
TINY DESK TEAM
Creative Director: Bob Boilen
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Editing: Joshua Bryant
Tiny Desk Team: Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer
GLOBALFEST TEAM
Co-Directors: Shanta Thake, Isabel Soffer and Bill Bragin
2023 Curators: Shanta Thake, Isabel Soffer, Bill Bragin and Meera Dugal
Event Producer: Ian Thake
Host: Angélique Kidjo
Legal Services: Tamizdat
Legal Services: Duane Morris
Video Production: Karim Tabbaa
FUNDERS:
The Mellon Foundation
The National Endowment for the Arts
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
SPECIAL THANKS:
Ken Umezaki
Fabian Alsultany
Steven Kirkpatrick
David Komar

[@peatbull3426]

Just fantastic. Love it. 👍😁🙋🏻‍♂️

[@poptemporanea]

I just want to hear more from them. Mesmerizing. Love from Argentina

[@benjaminbarrington7721]

So nice to just hear music from acoustic instruments...live.

[@anaphylastiks]

That guitar is not acoustic.

[@idaleung8003]

Lovr it! Helped me decide to attend their next NYC concert.

[@peterpipe9015]

This is awesome thank you

[@rafalovitch]

Tiny desk - you have to bring Ren on.. he is nothing short of a musical genius! Check him out (hi ren, chalk outlines, money game… so many good songs)

[@paulasandoval6081]

Mesmerizing... 👏👏👏

[@curtisdush5686]

Wow….incredible sound…💕💕✌️✌️🌟🌟🎶🎶

[@matelijanmuck9545]

"Cupa Cupa" was the one for me! Wow! Great job :)

[@frankpainter7571]

Excellent!

[@doncasto8520]

awesome!

[@lizardellipo4976]

BRAVO

[@suplementiband]

Yeas!

[@PragmaticEmpath]

Loving the musical language created here

[@koreanwithhannah7053]

chilling

[@pascal6607]

Merci .)

[@thesuncollective1475]

Nice, Cupa was hypnotic..reminds me of music I heard in Luxor on the radio

[@joyceglasgow2356]

❤

[@lizardellipo4976]

👏👏 nice work Gentlemen 💛

[@carminativo]

que genialidad

[@MikeSmith-tp6zi]

As a frequent visitor to Morocco, particularly Essaouira and as a guitarist and a lover of the music there I really enjoyed this. Is Justin able to tell me what tunings he used for the first two track as they were very inspirational

[@BaddaBoomBig]

If you search for Justin Adams guitar workshop Womad there is a great video that I think you will like

[@cristobaltrivino1190]

Que sonido tan bueno únicamente con la pandereta y la guitarra.

[@tariqparis4109]

Mosic mucho Buena

[@yonacohen4682]

Great Umm-KulThum reference (enta omri)

[@bangwonlee2077]

보지않고 들었는데 뾰족함의 스산이 느껴진다.

[@user-wp2um6zv2h]

The melody of the second song comes from an Arabic famous song

[@kungfusushi]

1rd

[@tariqparis4109]

Bon jour chef ?

[@maranathaverdadyjusticia9596]

Pobre bajo.

[@louiscarrillo5873]

ive grown away from hearing electric guitars sonically with acoustic percussion. you have to play harder just to be heard and its just chasing accompaniment. no interaction. you hear it here . the guitar isnt interacting and percussionist is chasing the guitar . guitarist decides becuse he doest have to listen so often. acoustics together is more balanced and then amplify BOTH instruments. too much distortion. id rather hear the beautiful frame drums solo and violin. percussionist take note. learn to sing so you dont have to go through this and get blisters all over your hands.

[@guillll]

I hear nothing of the sort ... the guitar is obviously played at a very low volume, the frame drum is actually louder. And the percussionnist can sing very well !