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New album 'Folila' (Because Music) - Available
“Mr. Bagayoko’s driving guitar riffs push the music along, giving it shape, and Ms. Doumbia’s vocal lines…ride above the complex rhythms, threading the beat with hypnotic melodies.” THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The most successful musical export of their continent this century" THE OBSERVER
"Folila finds [Amadou & Mariam] further pushing the meaning of Afro pop" THE NEW YORKER
After travelling all around the world, working with such great musicians as DAMON ALBARN, the famous malian duo Amadou & Mariam has released his new full lenght album : Folila. This new much awaited album features special guests as NICK ZINNER from YEAH YEAH YEAH'S, Jake from SCISSOR SISTERS, SANTIGOLD, EBONY BONES, and BERTRAND CANTAT from NOIR DESIR - amongst other surprises. They are currently touring Europe, Canada and USA.
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«The stars, who met at the Bamako Institute for the Blind, believe that listening to their music in the dark is the best way to enjoy their performance and to understand how visually impaired people live» BBC
«With ‘Eclipse’, we were (...) thrust into a world of sensory delight, created through our imaginations. If this is the future for live performance, then god let it be, it’s brilliant» PLANET NOTION
«Eclipse will be difficult to forget for anyone in the audience, a unique evening’s entertainment turned inner body experience that, after leaving, appears impossible to recount» THE STOOL PIGEON
In parallel of the Folila tour, they launched the Eclipse project (the first time happened at the Manchester International Festival this year was a success). This unique musical project offers to the audience the possibility to dive and experience the daily lives of Amadou & Mariam by calling upon our senses. Therefore, the audience is in the dark, surrounded by sounds and smells, able to feel the same way the duo is used to.
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«He's just a very accomplished musician who knows everything there is to know about orchestrating (…) On the Questlove Afropicks project I loved his arrangements (…), sounds that Iʼd never heard before. So I wanted that on my new album. Whenever I do horns now, I'm going to send them his way» Macy Gray talking about David Murray in THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The wonderful voice of Macy Gray will sing the blues, a way to link generations and history" JAZZ NEWS
Following their work within the musical project Questlove Afro-Picks (including Tony Allen, Questlove from The Roots, Amp Fiddler...) in collaboration with Red Bull Music Academy, the idea of a the Big Band takes the shape of a transversal journey through the universe of a unique ‘pop’ & soul artist, Macy Gray, upgraded with the sonic sense of Jazz artist David Murray. The Stomping and Singin’ The Blues Project offers a crossing bridge between several essentials musical sources. It starts from the roots of all: the Blues (Let’s Talk About Jesus, Dead Presidents), link up afterwards with Pop & Soul music (Macy Gray’s songs), and ends enclosed under the contemporary perspective of Jazz music (Dreams, Stressology, Interview Suite). Wrapped by the presence of the Big Band (15 musicians), this new repertory is brought to another level.
PROJECT PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WME
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New album 'Hora Kota' (Lusafrica) - Available
"40 years his voice seduces and amazes. Unique, abrasive, and against everything" LE MONDE
"Tireless and at the top of African music scene" LIBERATION
"A unique voice" RFI
Bonga is one of the most essential musical musician from the current African scene. His recent album 'Hora Kota' has just proved how his music is powerful and take a higher level in live.
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New album - To be release in 2013 (Motema)
About his last album David Murray Plays Nat King Cole En Espanol :
"One of the most delightful recordings of the year" THE NEW YORKER
"Murray's sound surges forward while putting listeners in touch with the very essences of jazz Saxophone" THE VILLAGE VOICE
"His music is like something out of a "Twilight Zone" episode where all the time periods and all the cultures of the world exist in the same space at the same time " WALL STREET JOURNAL
Still riding over the success of the Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole En Espanol, David Murray strikes back with a new unique project and line-up: Black Music Infinity Quartet, gathering around him some of the finest jazz musicians as Marc Cary (Piano), Jaribu Shahid (Bass) and Nasheet Waits (Drums). The album sees special guest as GREGORY PORTER.
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AFRICA MON AFRIQUE is a new project initiates by the duo. The idea is to reconnect with audience that usually can't afford to go to an expensive shows. Before each date from the tour, Amadou & Mariam will set up a short meeting with locals population that will lead to a short live & some artistic workshops with the local children. On each ticket sold, 1 euro will be given against world starvation. The tour begins with a Festival in Paris (le 104) and will run the all year 2013.
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New album - To be release in 2013
Detroit based Amp Fiddler is a celebrated soul/funk musician who has shared stages and studios with everyone from PRINCE and GEORGE CLINTON to PRIMAL SCREAM and underground Detroit producer MOODYMAN. Amp Fiddler also played a pivotal role in bringing SLUM VILLAGE to global attention, and was a friend and collaborator with their producer, the late J-DILLA. His warm, expansive mellifluous music takes stylistic cues from all these encounters, but emerges as earthy, supremely relaxed, and rooted in the funk and soul that Amp feels most connected to. And, as he suggests, it is music for the head as much as food for the heart and soul.
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New album 'Hotel Univers' - Release date tba
"Surely the African discovery of the year" THE GUARDIAN
Leading a gang of musicians coming from eleven differents provinces of Congo, Jupiter aka The Rebel General strongly carry with energy the flag of Bofenia Rock (which he is the initiator, and based on the idea of reactivating rhythms and melodies from the great forgotten Congo, while injecting the urban groove of the City). With young and talented musicians, Jupiter gives a rise to the orchestra: Okwess International. After the success of the film Jupiter\'s Dance and several music collaborations (Damon Albarn, Jean Goubald), Jupiter has gained an international stature as an artist and has just ended a 100% electric album called Hotel Universe.
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New album 'Retox' - To be release in Europe on October 12th (US release June 12nd)
"Retox is a masterful work from a dynamic young artist" CRITICAL JAZZ
"Each song 'feels' like it is a stand alone artistic masterpiece. Retox, very much has the 'feel' of what Black radio should sound like today" SOUL PATROL
Charismatic and dynamic saxophonist-bandleader Lakecia Benjamin, who has played with Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, The Roots and Macy Gray, will take center stage in her own right with the June 12 release of her unconventional soul/funk album, 'Retox', on Motéma Music. This album is really a fruition of years of songwriting as much as it is a showcase for my sax playing and horn arrangements’ said Benjamin.
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New album 'Come A Little Closer' (Universal Jazz) - To be release October the 8th 2012
"A unique voice" 20 MINUTE
"One of the best Jazz singer" LE FIGARO
Born in Paris of an Ivory Coast father and a Moroccan-Spanish mother, Laïka was raised mainly by women (her grandmother, mother, and aunt) in a Moroccan Jewish family. She leans towards her maternal Sephardic culture, open to different styles of music in the Mediterranean. It shouldn't be surprising that Jazz – which finds its universality in the fact of being an adopted language and culture – should have constituted the natural horizon of her curious personality, willing to take a strong stand...
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New album - To be release in 2013
"That's a song-of-the-year candidate for me" SOCIAL ENTERTAINMENT
"Brillant musical synthesis" FOXY DIGITALIS
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.
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New album (Universal Jazz) - To be release in 2013
"A vibrant jazz, rock, soul, hip hop album, expresses an african culture, source of all music types"LIBERATION
"A perfect control of polyrythmics (and) a funky groove vibe" LES INROCKS
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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New album 'The Endless Summer' - To be released on November 5th
Recently founded on the still-burning ashes of the great and unique punk-joy band Rigolus, The Endless Summer remains as intense and sonic as a hypnotic journey. Their ’pop’ program is quite ambitious: unleashing the sound to create a shifting and swirling sound material - the whole applied to their proper and original idea of ’free-dance-floor’. The Endless Summer is a result of these rare and explosive energies, that must be obviously seen live. Their new album ’The Endless Summer’ will be released November 5, 2012.
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2 new albums of Marc Cary - To be release in 2013 (Motema)
"Marc Cary is a dynamic pianist, multi-keyboardist and composer on the cutting edge" JAZZ TIMES
"One of four most multi-dimensional players of keyboards today" DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
Marc Cary, one of the most exciting jazz musician, pays a tribute to a jazz legend died in 2010, a fervent supporter of civil rights : Abbey Lincoln. The trio will be playling alongside with video projections. The project will start begining of 2013.
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ALL INFORMATIONS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE
Amadou & Mariam (Mali) / The Last Poets (USA) / Tony Allen (Nigeria) / David Murray (USA) / Amp Fiddler (USA) / Jupiter and Okwess International (Congo) / Roberto Fonseca (Cuba) / Bonga (Angola) / Lakecia Benjamin (USA) / Omar Sosa (Cuba) / Laïka (France) / Tongues On Fire (USA) / James Blood Ulmer (USA) / World Saxophone Quartet (USA) / Ebo Taylor & Afrobeat Academy (Ghana) / Yasmin Levy (Israel) / Cheick Tidiane Seck (Mali) / Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra (Japon) / Omara Portuando (Cuba) / Mamani Keita (Mali) / Mo DJ (Mali) / Dam (Palestine) / Orchestra Baobab (Sénégal / Mali) |
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