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Africa may not be the same without him.
"I'm black, my skin is white.
The difference is what makes me unique, "Salif Keita claimed in the song that opens and titles his latest album, La différence (2009).
It does so with verses in English, French, Mandinka and Bambara, languages of native Mali, where albinos are still persecuted.
The defense of white-skinned blacks, discriminated against for the rest of his days, if not killed in the moment of birth, has been a long, personal battles he has fought this African musician.
And she has fully committed its new album.
Salif Keita is the real star of Saturday night July 10 at La Mar de Músicas.
The evening programming is supplemented with the mythical and psychedelic Os Mutantes and the revelers Balkatalan Experience.
Tickets cost 25 Euros.
The Malian, who returned home after twenty years living in the suburbs of Paris, has started a journey to his roots.
With three discs: the extraordinary 'Moffou' (name of a flute that is made from the stem of millet), 'M'Bemba' (ancestors) and now "La différence" (The dispute), the trilogy which began in 2002.
Salif Keita has turned in three Manfila Kanté, a guitarist admired throughout West Africa.
Their friendship dates back to 1973, when they met at Les Ambassadeurs in Bamako, Mali's legendary orchestra with African and Cuban repertoire.
He considers his mentor: "I taught him everything: how to approach a song, how to deal with a melody ... we complement each other well."
The title of 'difference' refers to the albinos.
"Being albino in Africa is a drama ', says on the disc. He says that lack of education in a country like Mali, where more than three quarters of the population is illiterate, largely explains the persistence of beliefs fatal to albinos.
Salif Keita was born albino in a society in which they cause fear and rejection.
Ancestral taboos challenged, his family is of noble lineage and Keita can not sing, and had to leave his village to make it even at the expense of many nights sleeping on cardboard in the old market of Bamako.
Salifou Keita (Djoliba, 1949) it clearly diaphanous years ago: "Music is Mali's oil."
And yours one of the most chilling voices of Africa.
Malinke states that as he look like gypsies in the way of understanding music.
"We have a close to the Arab culture and the tracks of the Arabic is very present in Andalusia. So there's a mix that gives us access to flamenco. I have all the vinyl Camarón. I bought them all. I do not understand Spanish, but when he sings and screams start to mourn me. "
Os Mutantes
"They looked like three angels," says Caetano Veloso remembering the first time he saw them.
Two brothers Arnaldo and Sergio, and a girl, Rita Lee, had formed in the mid-sixties in São Paulo a psychedelic rock band Dada.
A group become a cult since, in 1999, David Byrne's Luaka Bop released on the compilation 'Everything is possible!.
The best of Mutantes': "They were a mutant genetic recombination of elements of John Cage, the Beatles and bossa nova. A creature too strange and beautiful to live long, but strong enough to live forever," Byrne wrote.
On May 22, 2006, Los Mutantes performed at the Barbican in London.
It was the first time since their final separation in 1978.
What at first was going to be a unique concert eventually lead to many others.
A missed appointment Rita Lee, who declined to participate in the reunion.
Yes they were on the banks of the Thames, Arnaldo Baptista (vocals, bass, keyboards) and Sergio Dias Baptista (vocals, guitar) with bassist and drummer Dinho Liminha.
To sing with them were brought to Zelia Duncan.
A double CD can listen to the classics of the band that sounded that night: 'Baby', 'The Equalizer', 'Balada do Louco "...
Last year he released "Haihe ...
or amortecedor ', a studio album of new material, which are neither Arnold nor Liminha, Sergio and Dinho only with Bia Mendes singer.
Tom Zé collaborates on songs like 'Baghdad Blues' or' Samba do Fidel. "
"We knew that something must have existed, but did not have the slightest idea it was so perfect," said Ben Ratliff in The New York Times.
In February 2005, the British magazine Mojo included 'Os Mutantes' first album, the group in a list of 50 most experimental albums of all time-twelfth, ahead of Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa.
Admired by Kurt Cobain, according to an urban legend would have sent a letter to Arnold Beck-o-who titled one of his albums' Mutations'-, Universal reissued the old albums and, with graphic design by Sean Lennon, 'Technicolor' , recorded in Paris in November 1970 for the international market, with several songs in English and in French, unpublished until 2000.
Os Mutantes Forty years later they still sound fresh and irreverent.
Because the late sixties in Brazil was an explosion of creativity.
In 1968 he published 'Tropicalia ou Panis et circensis' manifest tropicalismo disk.
Mutants are on the cover along with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé ...
Poets, musicians and artists broke the rules.
In the dark years of dictatorship dressed provocatively: Sergio, a bullfighter, Arnold, harlequin, and Rita, with her wedding dress (including pregnant girlfriend).
Experience Balkatalan
There are six common friends of the Catalan party atmosphere and Balkatalan Experience would be what happens to the gypsy music of the Balkans when it manages to stick his nose in Catalonia.
They are bumpkins, but say that being Roma is an attitude.
With self-confidence are three journalists DJ-Miguel Amorós and Marc Isern, known as 2mini dj's, and Dr. Batonga, which is none other than John Urpí, founder of the magazine Batonga! -, Two vj's, Albert Sitges and Manel Mateo, Electric VJs, makers of the images, and a charismatic dancer and animafiestas-some say that possessed by the spirit of San Vito, called The Pearl (Juanjo Peña in your ID).
His proposal: Balkan music, see Emir Kusturica, Shantel, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Zdob Si Zdub, Goran Bregovic and Catalan-negotiated ...- Peret, Dusminguet, Cheb Balowski, La Trobe Kung-Fu, Muchachito Bombo Infierno, Obrint Pas .. .-.
That is, the fanfare to the rumba and shot because I have to.
Source: Mar de Músicas
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