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Sometimes the best plan is to have none.
That was the philosophy behind the Indian union Gerald Toto, Richard Bona from Cameroon and Congo for his album Lokua Kanza Toto Bona Lokua, mixing East African rhythms and vocal harmonies with influences from pop, jazz, soul ... Disco came out after his performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2007, where each was based on a song and leading the composition, while the other two followed him freely.
These three music giants are now showing that job Cartagena where improvisation is the highlight, and which will surprise fans of good music with emotion and creative freedom of their authors.
The concert on Tuesday July 15 at the Courtyard of the Artillery Barracks.
Entries, 15 Euros.
Before 20:00 hours, the flamenco-based fusion Calima, in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Due to weather forecasts, if rain concert Lokua Toto Bona would be held in the Nuevo Teatro Circo Cartagena.
Toto Bona Lokua is so far the only offer of a trio of brilliant musicians: the Indian Gérald Toto, the Congolese Lokua Kanza and Richard Bona from Cameroon.
Three aces to defend a subtle production embedded in the North African rhythms, jazz, soul or R & B.
What Indian bassist described as "transcending the structure of language in favor of emotion."
And the best vehicle was the improvisation.
Not in vain, each has his own solo career.
Perhaps the most unknown to the Spanish public is the composer, guitarist and singer thirty-three years Gerald Toto.
West Indian (Paris, he adds), was conscious of his criollidad in the dedication of his debut album Le premiere jours (1998).
A part-time album, enveloping, sensual and poetic, with whom he was compared to Caetano Veloso and included among the members of a new generation of French musicians to fuse rhythms open either side.
Able to go from chanson to reggae, cajun, or funk, as could be seen in his 2006 album Kitchenette.
For his part, Richard Bonna has many followers in our country.
Its history as a bass player and singer resembles that of many great African artists.
Born forty years ago in Minta, Cameroon, in a family of musicians, percussionist with his grandfather and his mother a singer.
In Douala could replace your home by a professional guitar but had to wait to move to Paris to study composition.
It started with twenty-two.
Soon he was playing with Salif Keita and Manu Dibango.
He spent seven years in Paris.
In late 1995 he met in New York with Joe Zawinul and joined his band to record and perform My People subsequent world tour.
Back in New York, was discovered by Jake Holmes, composer Harry Belafonte, who became music director.
Scenes From My Life (1998) Reverence (2000), Munia: The Tale (2003) and Tiki (2006) are by far the references alone.
Artists like the guitarist Mike Stern and Toninho Horta, the R & B star John Legend, Brazilian singer Djavan Susheela Raman or Anglo-Indian, participated in this three-sided disc.
Project joined him and Kanza Toto, Bonna said the aim of working together for pleasure and just go with the spontaneity of the moment.
A dish cooked by three different chef, in the words of Congolese Lokua Kanza, composer, singer and guitarist from her first album has won over audiences around the world with its magical simplicity and evocative melodies sung in Lingala, French, English, Swahili or Wolof.
His first solo appearance was at a concert by Angelique Kidjo in Benin in 1992.
In 1995 he received an award for best African album and released their second album, Wapi Yo.
3 albums, and you Toyebi Plus vivant complete their discography, more prolific if we refer to his work as composer and his collaborations with Papa Wemba, Pedro Guerra, Ray Lema, Angelique Kidjo, Geoffrey Oryema, Nathalie Merchant, Seydu, Manu Dibango or Gasnadji.
For his part, Calima carries through his music to the meeting of different musical cultures such as Eastern, Gypsy, Latin, Western ...
They use language the essence of flamenco as the leitmotif of this perfect cultural mix.
Resulting in a spectacle of miscegenation.
His staging of the typical Flemish crescent, where they will be performing dances and activities of the musicians.
Interestingly, also highlight the visual projections that are made during the show which techniques are intertwined film, documentary and animation.
Joined in 2004, and in 2007, his first album already on the market consiguuieron be nominated for Latin Grammy Awards for best flamenco album.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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