Watcha Clan

For ten years Watcha Clan has been the watch word for innovative Mediterranean grooves. To mark the dynamic decade they have redefined and revitalized their distinctive electro sound, pepping up the party further with their Diaspora Hi-Fi project.

The Diaspora is in the music, the music is in the Diaspora, blown on the winds across the waters from Algeria to Agadir to Andalucia, meeting in the Marseille melting pot.
The clan are musical nomads on a mission in search of space and freedom, embodied in the voice of Sista K whose mixed Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Berber ancestry epitomizes the borderless roots of Watcha-Clan's music manifesto.

Jewish, Muslim, Catholic or atheist? It doesn't matter. The future lies in faith in man and woman, brother and sister-hood and that's the message blasting out of the Diaspora Hi-Fi.

Press Quotes

"Watcha Clan is one of the most exciting bands I've seen on the world music circuit. They were controlled chaos in action -at times sounding Balkan, others Brooklyn and then Egyptian. There were also Moroccan rhythms and Sufi trance mixed with the electronica. For all the reasons I've mentioned this shouldn't work -it should be a mess- but it does. It is the talents of these musicians and their magnetic and charismatic presence that makes it so". Bob Boilen, NPR Music. 11.01.09

"Die vier Sound-Alchemisten lassen sowohl nordafrikanische Chaabi-Samples als auch flirrende Klesmer-Geigen und Gipsy-Blaskapellen in ihr Kaleidoskop der Dancefloor-Klaenge einfliessen. In ruhigeren Momenten greifen sie zum Akkordeon oder zur arabischen Oud-Laute. Auf der Buehne entfacht der Watcha Clan ein wahres Feuerwerk [...]."
-Juedische Illustrierte, Winter 09

Management & Booking

Manager & Main booking
Vai La Bott Recordings
Soupa Ju
phone +33(0)6 07 78 98 09
soupaju.watchaclan@free.fr

Germany & Eastern European countries
Koeterhai Booking
Simone Schrempf
Waldemarstr. 28
10999 Berlin
phone +49 (0)30 61 65 94 78
Fax +49 30 61 62 99 46
simone@koeterhai.de
www.koeterhai.de

Holland
Earth Beat Entertainment Agents-After-All
Rob van den Bosch
Postbus 2686
1000 CR Amsterdam
phone + 31 (0)20 62 79 518
rob@earthbeat.nl
www.earthbeat.nl

Scandinavia
D TOURS
Ken Day
Storgatan 23D
880 30 Naesaker, Sweden
phone + 46 622 21 27 31
Mobile + 46 70 345 10 31
kenday@dtours.org
www.dtours.se

North America

Trouble Worldwide
Alexandra Casazza
2983 Folsom St. A
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
phone +1 415 794 15 33
fax +1 415 829 87 23
alex@troubleworldwide.com
http://www.troubleworldwide.com