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"3 MA?
For three countries starting with the same syllable, Morocco, Mali and Madagascar, and are the sites of origin of the musicians Ballaké Sissoko, Driss the Maloumi and Rajery.
String music.
African string.
Because Ballaké Sissoko Mali is a master of the 'kora', harp-lute 21-string West African traditional built from a large gourd, the Moroccan Driss El Maloumi plays like angels the 'oud', the classic Arabic lute, while the Malagasy Rajery handles like no other the 'valiha', the national instrument of their island, a stunning twenty tubular string zither made of bamboo.
Three great musicians with three string instruments, above all on guitar, and typical of their cultures.
Intends to be a delicacy, one of those concerts that are never forgotten, accompanied by breathtaking scenery, the ruins of the Old Cathedral.
The concert on Sunday 19 July at 23:00.
Tickets, € 10.
3MA The idea emerged in 2006 in Timitar festival held in the city of Agadir, where Rajery-al in Madagascar known as' The Prick of valiha'-witnessed the performance of the Malian Toumani Diabate.
The Malagasy head was spinning by coupling the sound of your 'valiha' with a 'kora'.
Months later, Rajery performed a concert with Driss El Maloumi and imposed the necessity of their being three stringed instruments 'valiha', 'kora' and 'oud'.
The busy international agenda Toumani Diabaté given the opportunity to enter the project to another kora virtuoso: his friend Ballaké Sissoko.
The first trials took place in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, in December 2006, thanks to financial support from the French Cultural Center.
And the task was much more arduous than expected.
Had to be used on them to find a common language from which to start his unusual journey, one difficulty was that while the 'kora' and 'oud' are diatonic instruments, the 'valiha' is chromatic, and also differ in tuning.
These three adventurous musicians who travel symbolically Africa from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean, in a fascinating dialogue without words, defined as a 'trans-String Project. "
And its complicity makes the unexpected mix sound naturally.
The original MA disc '3 '(Contre-Jour) of Rajery, and Ballaké Sissoko Driss El Maloumi, finally recorded in the island of Reunion.
A tip: the World Music Chart Europe, which reflects the opinions of specialists fifty-world music chose him as the best album released last year, from over nine hundred references.
The prestigious critic Charlie Gillett wrote in his column in The Observer, that this is one of those too frequent cases of an instrumental recording in which the musicians are not meant to impress anyone but to connect with each other and with the unknown listener.
Source: La Mar de Músicas
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