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La Mar de Músicas do a tour on Wednesday, 14 of the most varied musical.
Although the Colombian Cholo Valderrama will be the start of the day, Toumani Diabaté accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of the Murcia region on a national concert that will premiere and can be seen only in Cartagena, and the U.S. group Dirty Projectors will be one of the most special nights of this issue.
Tickets will cost 18 Euros.
The concert was broadcast live on Radio 3.
Mystical and crystal clear notes of the kora of Toumani Diabaté have awakened many mornings at the NASA astronauts in space stations.
Legend has it that a soldier found hiding in caves feminine genius who liked to play the kora.
He did every night, at dawn, at the entrance of their shelter.
Haunted by music that the warrior decided to snatch a woman-genius.
With help from two hunting companions managed to grab the exotic instrument.
One of them, Djelimaly Oule Diabaté, ended up staying with the kora, which was passing between the generations Diabaté.
The kora is a harp-lute 21-string as a sounding board, constructed from medium to large size pumpkin, is covered with cow skin tightens.
The strings are attached to a long wooden pole and touched with two fingers-thumb and forefinger of each hand.
For seven centuries the symbol of the Mandingo culture.
Toumani Diabaté usually explain that the instrument has three simultaneous functions-low, accompaniment and improvisation.
His expertise is such that the kora in his hands becomes a solo instrument that leads to certain forms of polyphony.
Very graphically explained Raúl Rodríguez, the son of Martyrdom: It seems that there are plenty of people inside the pumpkin.
In the course of the XXI century Toumani Diabate (Bamako, 1965) is breaking new ground for the kora.
The Malian has recorded with Bjork, Ali Farka Toure, Salif Keita and Damon Albarn, and has come to call as the music of film composer Hans Zimmer for the soundtrack of "Madagascar II."
The album 'Songhai', recorded with Ketama and bassist Danny Thompson, produced by Mario Pacheco, Joe Boyd and Lucy Duran, was one of those who established the concept of what has been called 'world music'.
And 'The Mandé Variations' is his first solo album in two decades.
It took just two hours to burn.
"The tape began to spin and I started to play. It is a gift of God because this music is not written."
A Symphony of Murcia is a new challenge.
The address on this occasion the Scottish Mark Heron, music director of the Nottingham Philharmonic, the University of Manchester Symphony and the Liverpool Mozart Orchestra and faculty member of the Royal Northern College of Music.
And this experience with Toumani may be one of the most rewarding orchestra has lived in the region in the Sea of Music.
The Master's Son Sidiki Diabaté has experience playing with orchestras.
The pan-African Symmetric Orchestra is one he founded in 1992 and whose album 'Boulevard de l'Indépendance' is published by the company that dusted the Cuban oldies 'Buena Vista Social Club' and recorded with Ali Farka Toumani.
Encounter between generations, and modern music with traditional, is an attempt to rebuild the culture of ancient Mandé empire, a common space before the French and British colonization, which covered what is now Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast ...
Kora, balafon (African xylophone), acoustic and electric guitar, size (armpit drum), n'goni (a kind of banjo) ...
with violins, violas, cellos ...
Africa and Europe sharing the same stage.
If the omens are favorable to your trip who one day proclaimed Carmona, Bean and Deafness come to Torres leaning on his cane.
Sit with the kora between your legs and your thumbs and index began to pluck the strings with mastery of the ancient celestial instrument.
Dirty Projectors
Dave Longstreth, a former student at Yale, is the mind behind Dirty Projectors.
The voices of polyphony, Amber Coffman, Angel and Haley Deradoorian Dekle-shine on his album 'Bitte Orca' (2009).
Three years ago we recorded 'Rise Above', a reinterpretation from the memory of hardcore punk album 'Damaged' by Black Flag.
And for five who published 'The Getty Address', a concept album about Texas musician Don Henley.
The versatile intelligent Longstreth has taken his project to an influential position within the avant-garde pop and has attracted interest from artists such as Caetano Veloso, who came to them when the projector (or promoters) Dirty acted in Rio de Janeiro.
Big fan of Brazilian music, Dave Longstreth says he for one hallucinated with Jobim and Caetano discs.
Dirty Projectors have worked with Bjork in New York
Cholo Valderrama
In the Colombian region of the Llanos Orientales in the Casanare, to the river Pauto grew Orlando "Cholo" Valderrama (Sogamoso, Boyacá, 1951).
In a family of eight children and a house of rattan, wood and palm.
Learning from small tasks prairie farmers.
His job was to carry water, milking cows and looking after horses.
Never thought of becoming a singer, but now, with nearly thirty year career and more than fifteen albums, the Cholo Valderrama is a great llanera music.
He discovered music listening to his mother sing while she milked the cows and, later, dancing or partying in the neighborhood.
Then one day it occurred to join a contest balladeers, the first of many who would win in subsequent years.
"When I go to sing elsewhere, to other countries, do not think the Cholo Valderrama as such but to show that we exisit as culture, as people live, our music is not a museum and you're there," says the Filmed documentary Aniara and Roman Gabriel of the National University 'Cholo Valderrama, joropo on earth. "
Source: Mar de Músicas
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