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African Jazz Roots - Seetu

by African Jazz Roots

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    Saint-Louis du Sénégal, camaïeu de savanes soudanaises et d’eaux, carrefour de cultures, creuset d’héritages artistiques, dont la population, du pêcheur intrépide à l’élégante signare, témoigne d’une forte identité. Un lieu idéal avec ses paysages presque irréels, entre fleuve et Océan Atlantique, pour y ancrer une aventure onirique. Elle commence en 2009 lors du festival de jazz de cette cité où de longue date fleurirent une pléthore de formations dévouées au genre. Simon Goubert, batteur-pianiste tendance post- coltranienne y rencontre Ablaye Cissoko, koraïste issu d’une famille de djélis (griots) de Haute Casamance. De leur dialogue naîtront deux albums. [...]
    Avec ce troisième opus, l’ambition est de pousser plus avant, à la confluence de plusieurs idiomes, ce tissage de jeux rythmiques, de sources modales contradictoires. Un répertoire nourri d’impressions et d’évocations, comme une introspection de ce bout d’humanité qu’on dirait en suspension dans l’air salé. [...]
    Pour le moins, notre quintet de haut vol, avec un fascinant déploiement de couleurs sonores et beaucoup de délicatesses, signe là un hommage intense et profond, pour ne pas dire ensorceleur, à ce lieu magique et mystérieux.
    Frank Tenaille

    Saint-Louis, Senegal, a mix of Sudanese savannahs and water, a crossroads of cultures, a melting pot of artistic legacies, whose population, from the intrepid fisherman to the elegant signare, bears witness to a strong identity. An ideal place with quasi-unreal landscapes, between river and Atlantic Ocean, to anchor a dreamlike adventure. It began in 2009 at a jazz festival in this city where a plethora of bands dedicated to the genre had long flourished. This is where the post-Coltranian drummer and pianist Simon Goubert first met Ablaye Cissoko, a kora player born into a family of djélis (griots) from Upper Casamance. Their interaction gave rise to two albums. [...]
    The idea behind this third album is to push the goalposts even further towards the convergence of several idioms, this interweaving of rhythmic play, of contradictory modal sources. A repertoire nurtured by impressions and evocations, like an introspective gaze at this tiny corner of humanity that could be described as suspended in sea air. [...]
    On this album, to say the least, our high-flying quintet, with a fascinating array of sonorous colours and a great deal of delicatesse, has paid a deeply sincere, even enchanting homage to this magical, mysterious place.
    Frank Tenaille

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Saint-Louis, Senegal, a mix of Sudanese savannahs and water, a crossroads of cultures, a melting pot of artistic legacies, whose population, from the intrepid fisherman to the elegant signare, bears witness to a strong identity. An ideal place with quasi-unreal landscapes, between river and Atlantic Ocean, to anchor a dreamlike adventure. It began in 2009 at a jazz festival in this city where a plethora of bands dedicated to the genre had long flourished. This is where the post-Coltranian drummer and pianist Simon Goubert first met Ablaye Cissoko, a kora player born into a family of djélis (griots) from Upper Casamance. Their interaction gave rise to two albums. [...]
The idea behind this third album is to push the goalposts even further towards the convergence of several idioms, this interweaving of rhythmic play, of contradictory modal sources. A repertoire nurtured by impressions and evocations, like an introspective gaze at this tiny corner of humanity that could be described as suspended in sea air. [...]
On this album, to say the least, our high-flying quintet, with a fascinating array of sonorous colours and a great deal of delicatesse, has paid a deeply sincere, even enchanting homage to this magical, mysterious place.
Frank Tenaille
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released September 29, 2023

Ablaye Cissoko : kora
Sophia Domancich : piano
Jean-Philippe Viret : double bass
Ibrahima "Ibou" Ndir : calebasses
Simon Goubert : batterie

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Twenty year after a new team including Virginie Crouail, Simon Goubert, and original founders Vincent Mahey and François Yvernat decide to give the label a new lease of life.
Peewee! is reborn and proud to be here with new directions in artistry and music.
With a program of new projects and reissues, enjoy for a new era with Peewee!
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