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The Night: World Music

sat 20 may 2023 01:00 hour

Music from West-East & Central Africa : Niger, Tuareg | Mali, Tinariwen | Guinea, Mory Kante | Cameroon, Roland Tchankounte | Mozambique, Neco Novellas | An East African Journey, Omar Sosa.

1- Niger : Musiques des Touaregs – In Gall.
In the Sahara and Sahel, at the end of the 20th century, a style of music developed in bands that originated from the Tuaregs, or the nomadic Berber tribes that live in the North African desert area. Charming rhythms that sway like camels mix with meandering Arabic melodies and raw guitars. An unpolished sound, which also echoes the hard existence of the Tuareg. It is now impossible to imagine contemporary world music without Desert Blues, with young followers who add their own, modern styles.
CD. Niger : Musiques des Touaregs – Ingall. LABEL: Gallo (203), code: VDE CD-1106. VIDEO

2- Tinariwen.
Emmaar (meaning heat on the wind) is the sixth album by Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014. It is their first full-length album not recorded in North Africa. After Tinariwen’s previous album won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2012, the band was ousted by a Tuareg uprising in their home region of northern Mali, in which Islamist militants kidnapped guitarist Abdallah Ag Lamida. Other members of the band fled to the southwestern United States, where they wrote and recorded Emmaar in and around Joshua Tree National Park, which has a desert environment similar to their homeland. The album’s lyrics mainly deal with the band’s exile and political struggles in their home country. CD. Emmaar : Deluxe edtion – Tinariwen. LABEL: Wedge (2014), code: W13CD2. VIDEO

3- Best of Mory Kanté.
Mory Kanté (died 2020, Conakry, Guinea) was an acclaimed singer and player of the kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea’s most famous families of griot musicians. After being brought into the Mandinka griot tradition in Guinea, he was sent to Mali at the age of seven – where he learned to play the kora, as well as important voice traditions, some of which are necessary to become a griot. In 1988 he was suddenly in first place in the Dutch Top 40 with Yé Ké Yé Ké. Of course, this cheerful song is also on this Best of compilation, supplemented with tracks from the albums Akwaba Beach and Touma.
CD. Best of Mory Kanté. LABEL: Universal (2002), code: 00731458972426 + 00602537760756 + 5897242. VIDEO

4- Roland Tchakounte.
Blues Menessen is the second album by Roland Tchakounté, who lives in Paris and was born in Cameroon. His eventful life and background form an almost logical and very promising prelude to a successful blues career. With eight children, of which he was the only son, his parents fled the harsh rural life to build a new life in Douala. Unfortunately, after a major house fire, the family was at the mercy of the charity. Roland then alluded to a departure for France and only after many years of waiting for a visa and a number of perilous attempts to leave Cameroon did he manage to make the crossing by plane. Although he soon finds his way in the music scene in Paris with a mix of blues and rock, it is ultimately the meeting with blues guitarist Mick Ravassat, also prominently present on Blues Menessen on electric guitar, that results in a definitive change of style and sound. , more focused on the pure Afroblues. CD. Blues menessen – Roland Tchakounte. LABEL: World Connection (2011), code: 8712629431029 + WC43095. VIDEO

5- Neco Novellas is an ambitious vocal quintet of three musical brothers and two sisters. Originally from Mozambique, they have now settled more or less permanently in Europe, where they try to make ‘global music’. The album New Dawn is a promising, open debut showcasing their versatile musical identity, heavily influenced by the music of their South African neighbours. Their use of the marabenta style – simple, three-chord dance music of the people that they experiment with in Zuma Luei, among others – also makes some of those songs nice and danceable. CD. New dawn – Ku khata – Neco Novellas. LABEL: World Connection (2008), code: 5413356339475 + WC 43068. VIDEO

6- Omar Sosa.
An inspiring, peaceful world fusion of traditional African music with contemporary jazz. In 2009 the Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa toured East Africa. During his tour he met numerous traditional musicians. His sound engineer Patrick Destandeau made field recordings of their musical performances. It was not until 2018 that Omar Sosa started working on those recordings. In a non-emphatic way he complements the music with subtle playing on acoustic piano, kalimba and keyboard. In this way he creates an equal fabric of creative expressions by various artists. In Paris, the final mix was made with the collaboration of co-producer and percussionist Steve Argüelles and multi-instrumentalist Christophe Minck. CD. An East African journey – Omar Sosa. LABEL: Ota Records (2021), code: MDC023. VIDEO

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