GABIN DABIRÉ ''KONTÔMÉ'' (BURKINA FASO, 1996) @ [192k]

GABIN DABIRÉ 

''KONTÔMÉ'' 

(BURKINA FASO, 1996)  @

El "Gabin Dabirè Group", nace casualmente en 1994, en ocasión de la fiesta al Parco d'Arte "BUM BUM GA", en las colinas del Chianti. Al final del concierto, Gabin aclamado por el público, invita el saxofonista Daniele Malvisi para tocar la ultima pieza con él y su hermano Paul Dabirè, percusionista de Gabin ya desde varios años.

Desde este momento, los dos musicos, con la ayuda de Paul Dabirè, emprenden una colaboración que da vida a un grupo musical multicultural con tonalidades cautivantes, gracias también a la participación del trio vocal sardo de las Balentes

Las palabras "INVERSE LIVE" indican de que manera atipica se han realizado el disco y el respectivo concierto: la evolución del repertorio, que ha caracterizado una larga temporada de conciertos llevados por el mundo, se ha concretizado en un material musical profundamente experimentado y que mantiene en el disco los tiempos dilatados del live.

El live del Gabin Dabirè Group representa una síntesis musical nueva y divertida, una mezcla de sabores que van desde el jazz hasta la etno music, que comprenden los cantos tribales folk africanos hasta el pop y la musica mediterranea. Este conjunto de sabores desencadena una energía que envuelve los musicos y el público en una especie de experiencia común.

Las composiciones de Gabin Dabirè, proclamadas por el mismo Herbie Hancock como la nueva síntesis de la musica africana, asumen, a través los arreglos de Daniele Malvisi un aspecto coral. Representan un trabajo plenamente consciente, que mira ampliar su potencial manteniendo los aspectos mas íntimos y ancestrales.

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Gabin Dabiré is a musician and poet from the Dagari tribe in Burkina Faso, which borders on Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

The main feature of this recording is that the author, who now has been living for more than twenty years in Italy, has made every effort to respect the traditions of his people. In fact, the distance from his homeland has made him even more obsessive in this quest.

Dabiré expresses here the magic world of his childhood and adolescence; the sounds of his village are re-lived with such strength that no one could imagine that the author lives with his family near Siena, Italy, nor could one believe that the recording took place in a state-of-the-art studio in Rome, instead of the Savannah.

The difference between this recording and many others is that this is done by a learned African musician who evokes the atmosphere of his far-away village.

It is therefore not only an extraordinary musical work, but also an important piece of cultural documentation.

Unlike his previous work, Kontômé, which is a collection of original songs which do not deny a certain western influence (a little bit in the style of a modern "griot"), the twelve tracks in Afriki Djamana are a small personal and poetic anthology of traditional sounds.

The instrumentation and structures are therefore varied and organic; the sounds which result are earthy-the totemic timbres of gut and skin, of gourd and bone, of cane and wood.

The voices of Gabin Dabiré, his brother Paul, and Therése Keità seem to come from the dust of the Savannah, under the shade of a mango tree.

Source

1.Bi Gbaale 2.Siza 3.Bi Gbaale Za 4.Doudou 5.Yoro Woulou 6.Fanta 7.Kontome 8.Mariam A Ne Awa 9.M'yab Ye 10.Warba 11.A Nisala

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