19/11/2017 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita Featuring Gustavo Ovalles Milton Court, London
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17/11/2017 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm African Night Fever Presents: Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-By-Sea
The concept behind the AfroCubism collaboration is to celebrate and unite some of Mali and Cuba’s hottest musicians and to explore their shared spirit of Afro-Cuban soul. In the Sixties, socialist Mali politics had close links to those of the new communist Cuban government, creating strong ties between the two...
The legend says that back in 1996, World Circuit Records appointed some of the finest Malian musicians, asking them to visit Cuba and give life to collaboration with similarly impressive local artists. The project didn’t come to life because of visa issues and instead of the Malian-Cuban musical communion, World...
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Transparent Water, a meeting between Cuban jazz pianist Omar Sosa and versatile Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita, is a delightful sounding album that lures the listener into an enchanted sonorous world. Keita has made his mark in recent years as a sensitive collaborator (with Welsh harpist Katrin Finch, for example),...
21/07/2017 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita Stoller Hall, Manchester
23/04/2017 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm AfroCubism Revisited Featuring Bassekou Kouyaté And More Islington Assembly Hall, London
On the eve of the release of his latest album Transparent Water, Senégalese kora player, percussionist and singer Seckou Keita was packing to fly to Paris for some radio sessions and shows in France – when he managed to find a moment to talk to Rhythm Passport about the latest of his many...
More than the title or name of their festival, UnampliFire sums up Nest Collective’s attitude: “no amplification, no sound checks, no waiting around – just pure, unadulterated music”. If you add to that the fact that the aforementioned music is played by more than a dozen of intriguing musicians, who...
