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A selection of "World Music" acts which will be on tour this Summer and Autumn 2011.
Fabrice Gogendeau
3D FAMILY / ph: +33-240-705-915
www3dfamily.org
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AMADOU & MARIAM
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Singer Mariam Doumbia and guitarist/singer Amadou Bagayoko met at Mali’s Institute for the Young Blind in the 1970s. From simple origins of Malian folk, their distinctive Afro Blues has grown to embrace rock, jazz, Indian tablas, folk instruments from Syrian violins to the Egyptian ney, and even horn-splashed Cuban rhythms. In 1980, the couple married and began performing together. Manu Chao produced their 2004 album Sunday in Bamako, and they recorded the 2006 FIFA World Cup anthem Celebrate The Day. In recent years, the duo has been embraced by mainstream pop audiences, supporting Scissor Sisters, Damon Albarn, Blur and Coldplay, and even playing the 2008 Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago on the back of their 2008 breakthrough album Welcome to Mali. In 2010, Amadou & Mariam appeared on FIFA's Kick-Off Celebration for 2010's World Cup hosted in South Africa, along with the Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Tinariwen and Shakira.
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Label: Warner
Origin: Mali
Touring party: 14 persons
Availability: August, Autumn and all 2012
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TONY ALLEN
Tony Allen would have had a secure place in history even if he had not launched a solo career. As the drummer of choice of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, he was heard by millions around the world as the Nigerian legend created Afrobeat in the late 60s. Allen’s intricate, lithe and constantly perambulating groove was a key component of Fela’s warrior funk sound. In the last fifteen years, Allen has fully established himself as a solo artist, and albums such as Black Voices won enormous critical acclaim, revealing a dynamic bandleader as well as wizard drummer. Collaborations with such luminaries as Grace Jones, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Damon Albarn, and a recent deal with World Circuit records, have seen Tony Allen reach bigger audiences than ever. |
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Label: World Circuit
Origin: Nigeria
Touring party: 14 persons
Availability: All year upon request
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CHEICK TIDIANE SECK
Malian colossus Cheick Tidiane Seck is one of the most charismatic and resolutely individual artists to have ever emerged from Africa. He willfully defies categorization. He is his own genre of music.
A former bandmate of Salif Keita and Mory Kante, with whom he worked in the legendary Rail Band Of Bamoko, Seck has played with a dazzling array of artists drawn from jazz, soul, rock and all points in between: Hank Jones, Ornette Coleman, Living Colour and Marque Gilmore’s Drum FM, to name but a few. However, it is his solo works that are essential documents of the sumptuous beauty that can be created when the deep river of African music flows into its many tributaries in the Black Diaspora. Mandingroove, Sarala and Sabaly are all works that are undoubtedly destined for classic status. |
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Label: Universal Jazz
Origin: Mali
Touring party: 08 persons
Availability: All year upon request
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MELISSA LAVEAUX
Singer-guitarist Mélissa Laveaux is a global citizen. Of Haitian parentage, she divides her time between her native Canada and Europe, having recently moved to Paris. In any case, she has a maturity beyond her tender years. At just 24 years old, Laveaux already has the worldly-wise vocal and lyrical content of an illustrious lineage of singer-songwriters that would include such as Odetta, Joni Mitchell, Rokia Traore and Tracy Chapman. Her vibrant and well-crafted tales draw on African-Caribbean rhythmic and storytelling traditions, and the seamless way she moves from English to French to Creole on her assured debut Camphor And Copper make for a heady cultural and musical mosaic.
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Label: No Format
Origin: Canada/Haiti
Touring party: 05 persons
Availability: All year upon request
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BONGA
Sport’s loss has been music’s gain. A 400 m record holder in Portugal for almost 10 years, Bonga was nonetheless destined for a career as an artist. Born in the former Portugese colony of Angola, the sprightly sexagenarian was given his first music lessons by his accordion playing father before getting to grips with a dikanza, a percussion instrument that is inextricably linked to local folkloric culture.
In fact, Bonga’s entire growth as a musician has been underscored by a desire to assert Angolan identity in the face of Portugese colonialism, and the classic albums that he recorded almost four decades ago, Angola 72 and Angola 74, are deeply felt cultural manifestos for a unified and free homeland. Often writing in the lilting ‘semba’ style of Angola, Bonga is a superior songwriter who is also possessed of an otherworldly, intriguing voice, at once harsh and authoritative yet tinged with a vulnerability and tenderness that say much of the fundamental humanity that defines his creative drive.
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Label: Lusafrica
Origin: Angola
Touring party: 06 persons
Availability: All year upon request
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MAMANI KEITA
Malian vocalist Mamani Keita has been touching hearts and minds in both Africa and Europe since the release of the universally applauded 2002 album, Electric Bamako, a collaboration with French musician Marc Minelli. The record saw the singer lend her powerful, graceful tone to skillfully constructed electronic beats. Since that time Keita, who worked with the Malian theatre company Oulofobougou in the early stage of her career, has gone on to fulfill her enormous artistic potential. Yelema, a recent album with producer Nicolas Repac, has revealed great versatility on the part of the singer, who clearly has an eye and an ear for adventurous and unusual projects. Having already shared both the studio and stage with such luminaries as Salif Keita, Manu Dibango, Tama, Jeffrey Smith, Hank Jones and Cheick Tidiane Seck, Keita has made it clear that she is not just ‘another’ African diva, which is one of the reasons why she is so exciting a prospect. |
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Label: No Format
Origin: Mali
Touring party: 14 persons
Availability: All year upon request
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MIGUEL POVEDA
Barcelona-born vocalist Miguel Proveda is one of the most spellbinding voices in contemporary flamenco music. Having raised many an eyebrow with his performances since the ‘90s, he has become a celebrated champion of Catalan culture and has won countless prizes over the years, the most prestigious of which is the Lamapa Minera.
Furthermore, he has collaborated with noted film directors such as Nicolas Klozt and Pedro Almodovar but his work in the recording studio has also yielded outstanding results. His latest 2CD release Coplas Del Querer is a quite stunning set of finely wrought, jazz-tinged ballads that features guitarist Chicuelo and pianist Juan Albert Amargos.
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Label: Lusafrica
Origin: Spain
Touring party: 07 persons
Availability: All year upon request
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DAM
The first of its kind, Dam is a Palestinian hip-hop group that takes a firm stand for the sovereignty of its homeland as well as the need to find a peaceful solution to the Middle East problem and ensure that women enjoy equal rights. Hailing from the ghetto of Lod on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Dam, comprising brothers Tamer and Suhell, and their childhood friend Mahmoud, came together in 1999 and drew inspiration from American and French rappers such as Nas and Saian Supa Crew. They have been steadily building a fan base for the last decade, developing a sound that blends heavy, bulky funk bass lines and crisp, mellifluous Arabic percussion. After releasing two albums in Palestine, they made their international debut with Ihad. In Arabic Dam means that which is thicker than water. Yet they are a different kind of ‘blood’ to the one found on the streets of New York.
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Label: Red Circle Music
Origin: Palestine
Touring party: 05 persons
Availability: All year upon request
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ACCESS TO ALL THE NEWS AND INFO REGARDING THE ARTISTS WE REPRESENT ON OUR WEBSITE
Amadou & Mariam / Bonga / Dam / David Murray / Omar Sosa / K’naan / The Last Poets / Roberto Fonseca /
Miguel Poveda / Yasmin Levy / Mélissa Laveaux / Orchestra Baobab / Tony Allen / Laika / Omara Portuondo
Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra / Cheick Tidiane Seck / James Blood Ulmer / Ebo Taylor & Afrobeat Academy /
The Sun Ra Arkestra...
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