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Ballek Sissoko's kora and cello Vincent Segal come together for the first time in Spain in the festival La Mar de Músicas (19/07/2010)

A kora, traditional African harp, of Ballaké Sissoko, and cello, the Vincent Segal, a disc recorded in Bamako, 'Chamber Music' (chamber music).

Three evening sessions in the study of Salif Keita in May 2009.

Has published No Format!, Small Parisian label that also recorded the Canadian singer Mélissa Laveaux, Mamani Keita, Julia Sarr and Larose Partic or Gérald Toto, Richard Bona and Lokua Kanza.

Together for the first and only time in La Mar de Musicas Cartagena on Tuesday July 20 at 22:30 pm in the Old Cathedral.

Earlier in the Town Hall Square Colombians La Mojarra Electrica.

The concert will be heard live on Radio 3.

A duet is the art of conversation.

Not only must know how to talk, also listen.

Ballaké Sissoko (Mali, 1968) and Vincent Segal (Reims, 1967) signed this record result of complications that have been fed.

Take time to find Vincent's house whenever Ballaké passed through Paris.

Result: understanding without speaking, a simple glance is enough.

Segal says that the record thought musicians like Nick Drake and Annette Peacock.

In 1999, Sissoko Ballaké recorded with Toumani Diabate 'New Ancient Strings' (New old strings), a tribute to the disk that had been published both parents thirty years earlier with the title of "Ancient Strings" (Old strings).

A Toumani, with which was released in early eighties to form a duo, Sissoko had it five years ago on his album 'Tomora', for which also featured the voices of Barry Alboulkadri, Rokia Traoré and Fanga Diawara.

Ballaké, son of the venerated griot Djelimady Sissoko, played with the guitarist and singer Taj Mahal and the Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi.

"Ballaké has a secret, lives at night, silence is your guide. By a strange photosynthesis changes when the sun sets, fatigue disappears, also the problems, the ear becomes a giant magnolia. Then the game starts . The musicians know all the pleasure of the camera game. "After midnight session ', the jazzmen says' after affair', two-way wonderful, intimate concert club after cigarette lovers or appeased.

The Ballaké kora and cello are my old and venerable but certainly on the night of Bamako, have the beauty of children alone, "Segal wrote in the booklet of 'Chamber Music'.

Frenchman Vincent Segal (or Segal, depending on the source) has a classical training: conservatoire de Reims, Lyon Conservatory (first prize), scholarship for the Banff School of Fine Art Canada ...

Although he started with classical music is a road.

His first tour, not counting travel halfway around the world with the Opera de Lyon-la performed with Chuck Brown and P-Funk All Stars and their first album, 'T-Bone Guarnerius', dates from 2002.

His name appears in the credits of compact Elvis Costello, Sting, Cesaria Evora, Matthieu Chedid (-M-), Carlinhos Brown and Vanessa Paradis, and the soundtracks of films such as' Le Voile des illusions "and" Je suis heureux Ma mère soit vivante. "

With drummer Cyril Atef founded Bumcello, duet that his friend Vic Moan defined as industrial music in the Third World.

La Mojarra Eléctrica in the Town Hall Square

The crappie is a fish dish, with the addition of salt and some lemon juice, and fry in plenty of oil until crispy skin is well.

And the Mojarra Eléctrica is a Colombian band before, was Pescao Frito.

Came almost ten years on the streets of Bogota: not a manner of speaking because its members played in the busy street corner 19 with Carrera 7.

They say that in the popular imagination, that intersection is synonymous Malevaje, traffic congestion and street vendors, lottery, magazines and menus cob, sausage, kebab and pork rinds.

A tarmac stage in the center of the city.

There, stuck between cars and pedestrians were left coins in the hat, got together some musicians with drums, bagpipes, clarinet, saxophone, drums, cymbals, guides, drum and marimba cununo chonta.

And a coastal sound of puya, porro, currulao bullerengue and mixed with timba, funk and hip hop.

Its members are from Bogota, Cali, Choco ...

and an example of cultural diversity in the country.

With a shared interest in the indigenous music of the Colombian coast As the guitarist, Lucho Gaitan, which is being formed here is a stew (or thick broth based soup such as potato tubers, cassava, yams and bananas, or beans, which adds some meat or fish).

Write Alvaro Andres Cuellar each of the members of the Mojarra Eléctrica is the hallmark of folklore in the front and the background music that accompanied them to today influences when making music Irenka more R & B, Van Van more John Coltrane, champeta more ska.

The tastes of the boys in the Mojarra Eléctrica, in addition to the traditional music of the Atlantic and the Pacific, passing through Irakere, Manu Chao, Search Bloc, Cachao, Bob Marley ...

"The hardest thing when composing is to achieve a unique sound," says Cali James Velez, clarinetist, composer and musical director, who met with Alexander and Lucho CIDMUC while studying in Havana, and was with them Puro The Postal Service, a band that did covers of old and proposed vallenatos mapalé versions and 'The skirt color. "

The first album, 'Calle 19', as recorded in 2003, the second, 'Race', came in 2006, and the third will be titled 'Power to the people. "

As well they say, who have participated in the soundtracks of films such as 'dog eat dog', not a light salad.

The award-winning journalist Juan Carlos Garay already warned: "The Mojarra, plus lemon and fried plantain, contains the perfect condiment cumbias currelaos cienagüelas and passionate. His music is old-time flavor of fresh ingredients ... Colombia, beware: the Mojarra gonna snag.

Source: Mar de Músicas

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