Afrocubism: Afrocubism
Afrocubism
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label: WorldCircuit
- Order number: 1134710
- Release date: 11.10.2010
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Eigentlich sollten die Aufnahmen, die im März 1996 in Havanna mit Ry Cooder sowie einer Vielzahl von kubanischen Musikern stattfanden, ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von afrikanischen und kubanischen Künstlern werden. So machte sich eine Gruppe der besten Musiker Malis auf den Weg nach Havanna. Aus bis heute unbekannten Gründen kamen sie niemals dort an. Stattdessen produzierten Ry Cooder und Nick Gold drei Alben mit der Crème de la Crème der kubanischen Musikszene - der Buena Vista Social Club war entstanden, der Rest ist millionenfach verkaufte Geschichte. Aber was ist mit dem ursprünglichen Vorhaben?
14 Jahre nach den ersten Sessions hat Nick Gold seine Idee mit einem Line-up großartiger Musiker verwirklicht: Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate, Djelimady Tounkara, Lassana Diabaté, Kasse Mady Diabaté und Grupo Patria. An der Spitze des kubanischen Teams steht der Sänger und Gitarrist Eliades Ochoa.
Der Titel "AfroCubism" ist mit Bedacht gewählt: Das Album lässt Elemente kubanischer und afrikanischer Musik in die Luft aufsteigen und bezaubernde neue Mustern entstehen.
The great world music album that-never-was has finally been realized. The project that became the Buena Vista Social Club has borne its own extraordinary fruit.
In 1996, a group of Mali's finest musicians were due to fly into Havana for a speculative collaboration with some of Cuba's most brilliant singers and instrumentalists. For reasons that have never been made clear, the Malians never arrived. A very different album was recorded: Buena Vista Social Club. The rest, as they say, is multi-million selling history.
But what about that original album? What riches might have been revealed in the interaction of virtuosi from one of Africa's most musically rich territories, and from Cuba whose music has origins in Africa, and has been hugely influential on the mother continent?
AfroCubism offers the opportunity to find out. World Circuit Records' Nick Gold, the man behind the 1996 venture, finally brought the original invitees together with a stellar line-up of additional talent at a series of inspirational sessions and the great lost Afro-Cuban album will be released 14 years after originally planned.
Fronting the Cuban team is the cowboy-hatted singer and guitarist Eliades Ochoa, singer of the great Buena Vista theme "Chan Chan." The two original Malian invitees are multi-award-winning ngoni lute master Bassekou Kouyate and the extraordinary Rail Band guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, both universally agreed to be among the world's great instrumentalists.
Joining them are Eliades' Grupo Patria, amongst Cuba's longest running and most revered bands, the mercurial kora genius Toumani Diabaté, legendary Malian griot singer Kasse Mady Diabaté and the innovatory balafon player Lassana Diabaté.
"It was as though the musicians had been holding back their ideas and energy for that moment," says Gold, who produced the album, with the great Buena Vista engineer Jerry Boys at his side. "After we'd waited so long, it all came together remarkably easily and spontaneously. The group had never played together before but the music just poured out and it continued to flow over the next few days." Seventeen songs were recorded in five days, with all the musicians playing together "live" in one large room. A second session was convened some months later and produced a further nine songs.
This is an album that throws the elements of Cuban and African music in the air and lets them fall in entrancing new patterns.
"Mali meets Kuba: ein gelungenes Experiment." (stereoplay, 12 / 2010)
,,Eine ebenso spannende wie gelungene gegenseitige Konfrontation aller beteiligten Künstler mit ihren transatlantischen Wurzeln und Einflüssen." (stereo, 01 / 2011)
14 Jahre nach den ersten Sessions hat Nick Gold seine Idee mit einem Line-up großartiger Musiker verwirklicht: Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate, Djelimady Tounkara, Lassana Diabaté, Kasse Mady Diabaté und Grupo Patria. An der Spitze des kubanischen Teams steht der Sänger und Gitarrist Eliades Ochoa.
Der Titel "AfroCubism" ist mit Bedacht gewählt: Das Album lässt Elemente kubanischer und afrikanischer Musik in die Luft aufsteigen und bezaubernde neue Mustern entstehen.
Product-Information:
The great world music album that-never-was has finally been realized. The project that became the Buena Vista Social Club has borne its own extraordinary fruit.
In 1996, a group of Mali's finest musicians were due to fly into Havana for a speculative collaboration with some of Cuba's most brilliant singers and instrumentalists. For reasons that have never been made clear, the Malians never arrived. A very different album was recorded: Buena Vista Social Club. The rest, as they say, is multi-million selling history.
But what about that original album? What riches might have been revealed in the interaction of virtuosi from one of Africa's most musically rich territories, and from Cuba whose music has origins in Africa, and has been hugely influential on the mother continent?
AfroCubism offers the opportunity to find out. World Circuit Records' Nick Gold, the man behind the 1996 venture, finally brought the original invitees together with a stellar line-up of additional talent at a series of inspirational sessions and the great lost Afro-Cuban album will be released 14 years after originally planned.
Fronting the Cuban team is the cowboy-hatted singer and guitarist Eliades Ochoa, singer of the great Buena Vista theme "Chan Chan." The two original Malian invitees are multi-award-winning ngoni lute master Bassekou Kouyate and the extraordinary Rail Band guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, both universally agreed to be among the world's great instrumentalists.
Joining them are Eliades' Grupo Patria, amongst Cuba's longest running and most revered bands, the mercurial kora genius Toumani Diabaté, legendary Malian griot singer Kasse Mady Diabaté and the innovatory balafon player Lassana Diabaté.
"It was as though the musicians had been holding back their ideas and energy for that moment," says Gold, who produced the album, with the great Buena Vista engineer Jerry Boys at his side. "After we'd waited so long, it all came together remarkably easily and spontaneously. The group had never played together before but the music just poured out and it continued to flow over the next few days." Seventeen songs were recorded in five days, with all the musicians playing together "live" in one large room. A second session was convened some months later and produced a further nine songs.
This is an album that throws the elements of Cuban and African music in the air and lets them fall in entrancing new patterns.
Rezensionen
"Mali meets Kuba: ein gelungenes Experiment." (stereoplay, 12 / 2010)
,,Eine ebenso spannende wie gelungene gegenseitige Konfrontation aller beteiligten Künstler mit ihren transatlantischen Wurzeln und Einflüssen." (stereo, 01 / 2011)
- Tracklisting
- Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Mali Cuba
- 2 Al vaiven de mi carreta
- 3 Karamo
- 4 Djelimady rumba
- 5 La culebra
- 6 Jarabi
- 7 Eliades tumbao 27
- 8 Dakan
- 9 Nima diyala
- 10 A la luna yo me voy
- 11 Mariama
- 12 Para los pinares se va montoro
- 13 Bensema
- 14 Guantanamera