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martes, 5 de mayo de 2026

mayo 05, 2026

Nass Marrakech - BouDerbala

 

Es, this is an authentic Gnawan band, an outfit from the deserts of Northwest Africa, playing centuries-old traditional trance music originally used in indiginous healing ceremonies. Here, the band is broadened out to include flute, mandolin, marimba, sax, violin, Bulgarian gaduka, Brazilian percussion, and piano. It's the latter instrument, played by that inimitable, iconoclastic Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, that makes this far more than just another offering of some relatively obscure example of world-folk music.


Nass Marrakech se fundó en 1991 con la intención de interpretar de una forma respetuosa pero al mismo tiempo actual, la tradición de los pueblos "gnawa", los antiguos esclavos e inmigrantes procedentes del Africa Sub-Sahariana que fueron llevados al Magreb por los Árabes durante la Edad Media.

Estos pueblos mantienen aun hoy día un peculiar dialecto y forman cofradías que realizan rituales de trance curativo. Ceremonias que duran toda la noche y que como tal son llamadas "Lila Gnawa" (noche gnawa). En estas ceremonias el maestro canta diferentes grupos de canciones, cada grupo relacionado con un color y un espíritu hasta que encuentra el color que lleva al enfermo al trance. Una vez este se despierta del trance esta más fortalecido espiritualmente para hacer frente a las vicisitudes de la vida cotidiana.

Los fundadores de Nass Marrakech fueron: Moulay M'Hamed Ennaji "Sheriff", mandolinista y laudista, especialista en música popular y Andalusí, pero que siempre había estado fascinado por la fuerza hipnótica de la música gnawa y Abdeljalil Kodssi, cantante de origen gnawa, quien había sido fundador de otros grupos como Muluk el Hwa y había colaborado con músicos de jazz como el fallecido Don Cherry. Posteriormente se les une el que está considerando el maestro gnawa más joven de todo Marruecos: Abdelaziz Arradi quien con 32 años tiene un amplio bagaje como maestro, a parte de haber acompañado a la cantante Franco-Marroquí: Safo..

Nass Marrakech investigan desde su fundación en el patrimonio gnawa: una música basada en las repetición de formas rítmicas superpuestas y en cantos típicamente africanos de "llamada y respuesta". Una música al mismo tiempo popular y sacra , que está directamente conectada con las restantes músicas de la diáspora negro-africana (el blues, el góspel, los cantos yoruba, la samba, etc.), al tiempo que emprenden caminos nuevos, en direcciones como el jazz o la música electrónica más vanguardista, sin dejarse tentar por la fusión con el pop, a diferencia de otros interpretes del Magreb.

Reescriben canciones tradicionales, recuperando fragmentos de textos originales respetando siempre en ritmo y color gnawa, y escriben sus propios temas con textos sobre temáticas tan actuales como: el racismo, la necesidad de la paz o la ecología e incorporando arreglos y rítmicas procedentes de la amplia raíz africana esparcida por el mundo.

Zeye Meyel, L'ham, Beyna L'Ewan, Aisha, Zid el maal, Hamdushi II, Sandia, Galou, Mash Q'Mani,



Fuente: https://ixarano.blogspot.com/2012/03/nass-marrakech-bouderbala.html

martes, 21 de octubre de 2025

octubre 21, 2025

Eagle Brothers Band - Odumegwu Ojukwu Special

 


Grupo nigeriano de los 80. Este disco fue grabado en 1983,ripeado del vinilo original. El audio no es muy bueno , pero es un clasico de la música Highlife, Soukous. Espero que lo disfruteis , es dificil de encontrar información del grupo


A1 Odumegwu Ojukwu Special

A2 Oba Si Na Chi

B1 Saku Show Highlife

B2 Ejike Eme Uwa


Odumegwu Ojukwu Special, Oba si na chi, Saku show highlife, Ejike eme uwa, 

miércoles, 10 de julio de 2019

julio 10, 2019

Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate - Monistic Theory

Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate Continue Their Musical Quest for Common Ground New album Monistic Theory released May 13th on Cumbancha. 

"African, funk and rap influences combine in an energetic performance that ends with a powerfully political surge. They have developed into a tight, attacking unit, in which the virtuoso kora work is integrated into sturdy playing from the band. Exuberant virtuosic fusion."- The Guardian 

Recently released in May, Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate’s electrifying second album, Monistic Theory, derives its title from the concept that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system. It's an apt philosophy for this boundary-crossing collaboration, one that brings together two musicians from vastly different backgrounds in search of the commonalities that are uniquely revealed by artistic expression. 

Joe Driscoll has gained fame over the last decade for his unique blend of folk, funk and hip-hop. Sekou Kouyate, from Guinea, is one of the most innovative and virtuosic players of the kora, the 21-stringed West African harp. When these two seemingly disparate artistic forces are combined, an incendiary musical reaction takes place. "Our styles are totally different but complementary," Driscoll explains, "It's like putting baking soda and vinegar together." 

Joe and Sekou first met in 2010 at a festival in Marseille, France and this explosive combustibility was evident in their jaw-dropping live shows and energizing debut album, Faya, which was released by Cumbancha Discovery in 2014. Performing as a quartet, backed by drums and bass, Joe & Sekou have performed at hundreds of festivals and venues across Europe, North America and Africa, earning rave reviews whenever they set foot on stage. 

It hasn't always been an easy ride. Music may be their common language, but that doesn't help much with the day-to-day communication needed for touring, recording and promotion. Visa issues have provided a harsh reality check to their utopian vision more then once. Add to that the fact that Sekou's homeland was a victim of the Ebola crisis for over two years, making anyone traveling with a Guinean passport a target of excessive scrutiny. Once, when driving across the border from Canada into the US, the band was detained by border agents in HAZMAT suits, refusing to let them enter the country until they were cleared by medical personnel. A group of spirited, creative people stuck together in a small van for long stretches of hard touring will do more then anything to put the unifying power of music to the test. 

Yet no matter what happens behind the scenes, the minute Joe & Sekou get on stage or in the studio, all of the travails of daily life in the music industry fall away and magic erupts. While their personal histories and personalities are quite different, there is an undeniable music-umbilical connection that connects these two brothers from another mother. When Joe & Sekou make music together, there is a chemical reaction that is impossible to explain and even more difficult to restrain. 

Joe & Sekou's sophomore album, Monistic Theory was recorded at the Cumbancha studios in Vermont during one of the coldest winters on record. While the weather outside was frightening, the studio was ablaze with Kouyate's scorching kora licks, Driscoll's lyrical acrobatics and the potent rhythmic underpinning of drummer Jimbo Breen and bassist John Railton. After years of presenting their high energy, broadly appealing show to stages across the world, the ensemble had settled into a deep groove. This dramatic evolution and solidification of their musical interaction is clearly evident on Monistic Theory, which features a selection of tight, catchy, and funky songs. 

The album opens prophetically with the sound of trickling water and the voice of Oren Lyons, a Native American author, activist and Faithkeeper from upstate New York, near Joe Driscoll's hometown of Syracuse. "Water is life, water is the foundation of life. It is life. We are water," muses Lyons. From there it's off to the races of the instrumental opener "Tamala," as Sekou Kouyate's fingers fly effortlessly across the kora like water trickling over rocks in a mountain stream. 

The album's second track, "Just Live" finds Joe Driscoll waxing poetic on his philosophy of life. "Now history's a mystery with the ages unsung / We've forgotten all of their myths, even our mother tongue / Some folks learn to compete, others love to create / Some could eat until content, and yet they leave a full plate … So keep your minds in the moment, the moment in the mind / Open the doors, raise the blinds, cause it's about time / Just live." Rarely has there been such a head-bobbing life lesson. 

"Tokira" is Monistic Theory's sing along anthem, the song that will have lighters held high at future concerts. With "Tokira" Sekou reveals he is not just a kora virtuoso, he's also a talented songwriter with a gift for crafting a great melody. Driscoll's lyrics give the song added poignancy, as he reflects on what his 10-year old self would think about where life has taken him so far. 

Other highlights on Monistic Theory include the jaw-dropping kora playing on "Barra" and the inspirational and timely call for unity on "Rising Tide," on which Driscoll sings over a children's chorus, "When we realize / There'll be nowhere to hide / They can't divide once they see we're all one tribe." Driscoll continues to provide words of wisdom on the dreamy jam "Badiya," reminding us "Whether you break or bend / Whether you fade or mend / The only true salvation is love in the end." 

The album ends with a live, instrumental cover of the Stevie Wonder classic "Master Blaster," although you've surely never heard it played quite like this before. Recorded in front of packed house at the Westcott Theater in Syracuse, New York on a hot summer night, the track demonstrates the remarkable musicianship and unstoppable groove of this astonishing pairing. 

There's been a lot of water under the bridge for Joe & Sekou after over five years of collaboration, and neither of them could have predicted that night they met in Marseille that they'd still be making music together this far downstream. "I met Sekou, and I said, 'Hey, man, let's work on this for a while.' It was one of those 'follow the river' things, and I went with it," Driscoll recalls. With Monistic Theory, Joe & Sekou reveal that their odyssey is far from over, and if their fans around the world have anything to say about it, it’s a voyage that will continue for years to come.


1. Tamala 03:31 
2. Just Live 03:29 
3. Tokira 04:16 buy track 
4. Monistic Theory 03:59 
5. Batafa 03:49 
6. Barra 04:21 
7. Rising Tide 03:33 
8. Wama 04:34 
9. Badiya 04:17 
10. Master Blaster (Live) 03:47



miércoles, 4 de octubre de 2017

octubre 04, 2017

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (2008-2014)

Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983, Lagos, Nigeria), commonly known as Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician, and the youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun leads his father's former band Egypt 80.

Seun and his brother Femi are the two commercially successful musical offspring of the late Nigerian afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti. Seun has one younger sister who used to sing in his band. At the age of nine Seun expressed the wish to sing to his father. [Citation needed] A short while later Seun started performing with his father and the band. Since then, Seun has followed the political and social ethos of his father.

After Fela had died in 1997, Seun, then only 14 years old, became the lead singer of Egypt 80. While in school Seun had to choose between a career in music and one in African Football. His 2008 debut album, Many Things, was produced by Martin Meissonier, who had already produced two albums for his father.

About three quarters of the current Egypt 80 line-up consists of musicians that not only played with Fela Kuti, but often were arrested and harassed alongside the founder of the Afrobeat movement. Live sets consist of both new material and originals from Seun's father. Since during his lifetime, Fela Kuti had never performed any songs live on stage which he had recorded in the studio, this is the first chance for many long-time fans to enjoy classics like Shuffering and Shmiling, Colonial Mentality and Army Arrangement in a live setting. A new studio album called From Africa with Fury: Rise was released on 5 April 2011. It was recorded in London, produced by Brian Eno, John Reynolds and Seun himself.

Seun Kuti is featured in Calle 13's song "Todo se mueve" (Everything Moves), on their 2010 album Entren los que quieran.

He participated actively in the Occupy Nigeria protests against the fuel subsidy removal policy of President Goodluck Jonathan in his native Nigeria, in January 2012. Seun Kuti is an atheist.
  
                                                  Many Things

1 Think Africa 6:49
2 Don't Give That Shit To Me 9:21
3 Many Things 8:01
4 Fire Dance 8:09
5 Mosquito Song 7:23
6 Na Oil 8:09
7 African Problems 5:01

                               From Africa With Fury: Rise





1 African Soldier 5:16
2 You Can Run 5:37
3 Mr. Big Thief 7:38
4 Rise 7:05
5 Slave Masters 7:45
6 From Dem Eye 6:56
7 The Good Leaf 6:12


A Long Way To The Beginning




1 IMF 5:00
2 African Airways 5:12
3 Higher Conciousness 7:34
4 Ohun Aiye 5:17
5 Kalakuta Boy 6:40
6 African Smoke 6:49
7 Black Woman 8:52