Imagine
Roky Erickson
backed by the
Sun Ra Arkestra
or
Wilson Pickett
and
The Velvet Underground
, or picture the love child of Anubis and Kali.
King Khan & The Shrines
is more than a psychedelic soul band with a spectacle of a stage show. They are a
cult musical phenomenon
with more than 10 years of international touring, multiple studio records and a fan base of fervent
punk
,
soul
,
free jazz
and
garage rock
heads. Before them, the Brazilian
one man blues-trash-punk band
,
Xtreme Blues Blues Dog
and the
Armenian freak dance punk duo
,
Wattican Punk Ballett
will play.
King Khan
, the spiritual guru and front man, cobbled together a
fierce line-up of musicians
while in Berlin in between reading Tarot cards and raising a family. What he ended up with in 1999 is one of the
most entertaining groups
the world has seen and heard since the days of
Ike & Tina
. The line-up includes Chicago-born,
Ron Streeter
(veteran percussionist for Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder), a horn section consisting of trumpeter
Simon Wojan
(member of Kranky Records recording artists Cloudland Canyon), tenor sax man
Torben Wesche
(Germany’s John Coltrane), and famous French rockabilly baritone saxophonist
Frederic Brissaud
. The rhythm section of the Sensational Shrines has been called a German/French version of the
Freak Brothers
– Till Timm on guitar, organist Frederic Bourdil, Jens Redemann on bass and drummer Mirko Wenzl.