2023 TD Halifax Jazz Festival Presents BADBADNOTGOOD with Sudan Archives

Friday, July 14, 2023

19+ ID Required** / General admission standing / No refunds or exchanges / Rain or shine/ Seating Limited Not guaranteed

No professional cameras or audio/video recording devices allowed

BADBADNOTGOOD

Toronto, Ontario-based jazz ensemble BadBadNotGood make expansive music that straddles the line between '70s soul-jazz, alternative hip-hop, and experimental electronica. BadBadNotGood initially gained attention in the early 2010s playing jazz covers of hip-hop tracks by the likes of Odd Future and MF Doom. It was a sound they developed on their first two records, 2011's BBNG and 2012's BBNG2, covering songs by A Tribe Called Quest and Kanye West as well as My Bloody Valentine and Feist. Since then, they have balanced working on their own original songs as on 2016's IV, and collaborating on projects with hip-hop, dance, and neo-soul artists like Ghostface Killah, Kaytranada, Little Dragon, and Kendrick Lamar. 2021's Talk Memory found the group exploring fusion, new age, and orchestral influences. 

Sudan Archives

Sudan Archives contains multitudes. She first emerged as an avant-garde violinist who channeled her playing through loop pedals. But she's also much more than that: lovelorn songwriter, powerful vocal performer, and experimental beatmaker. She's captivated audiences at festivals around the world with her hybrid sound, playing at Coachella, Pitchfork Midwinter, and FORM: Arcosanti, and sharing stages with St Vincent, Ibeyi, and Michael Kiwanuka while touring her trail-blazing EPs Sudan Archives (2017) and Sink (2018). Sudan's many identities truly coalesce in her debut album, Athena: a psychedelic, magnetic take on modern R&B that's unlike anything else you've heard.

The album's emotional heart beats through "Glorious", one of Sudan's personal favourites. Backed by a marching beat and blown-out bassline, Sudan layers her voice into a melodic army, before being joined for a rousing verse from Cincinnati rapper D-Eight. "It's like a resolution," she says. "I've gone through all these conflicts, I've dealt with myself, I've questioned what's right and wrong, but at the end of the day, it's about growing your craft, taking care of your family. It's about just taking whatever's happening, and cranking it to the max.

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19 + for all evening shows in the festival's TD Main Stage located on the Halifax waterfront (ID required).

**If you are under 19 you need to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian (you will be asked to show ID) and they will be required to be onsite with you and be responsible for your supervision at the festival's TD Main Stage on the Halifax waterfront. This is because of the festival's license to sell alcohol. If the concert is designated 19+ and not at the TD Main Stage, then you are not able to attend.

Subject to capacity, children under 10 may accompany ticket-holding parents or legal guardians free of charge.

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