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Kalo​-​Yele (24bit 44khz)

by ALY KEITA - JAN GALEGA BRÖNNIMANN - LUCAS NIGGLI

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Kalo-Yele 04:58
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Nyanga 04:54
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Bean Bag 06:05
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Mamabamako 05:14
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Makuku 04:47
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Langa 04:10
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Bafut 04:29
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Intakt CD 261

Aly Keïta is one of the grand masters of the balafon, the West African xylophone. The Ivorian musician fits the balafon in interaction with artists such as Joe Zawinul, Omar Sosa and Jan Garbarek. Together with the Swiss clarinetist Jan Galega Brönnimann and Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli Keïta mixes the traditional African repertoire with Western jazz, Improvisation and African rhythms. This "Brotherhood of vibes and grooves" takes the audience on an adventurous ride. The first element that underlies “Kalo-Yele” (“moonlight” in Bambara) is a human and affective dimension, whose origin lies many miles from Switzerland and several decades before the three musicians entered the studio. Niggli and Jan Galega Brönnimann were actually born in Cameroon and they have been friends since they were… one year old! So, they spent their youth to the sounds and rhythms of West African music. Thierry Quénum writes in the liner notes: "If you ever wanted to try and classify the repertoire and interaction of these three musicians, I’d just have to wish you good luck! For each of them can handle the melody as well as the rhythm, or sail close to the jazz coasts as easily as near the banks of so called “world music”.

Reviews: www.intaktrec.ch/rev261-a.htm

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released January 15, 2016

Aly Keïta: Balafon, Kalimba
Jan Galega Brönnimann: Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Lucas Niggli: Drums, Percussion

Recorded March 27, 28, 2015, at The Zoo Studio Bern, Switzerland by Mat Callahan.Mixed and Mastered by Martin Ruch at Abhörraum Berlin. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Liner notes: Thierry Quénum. Photos: Stefan Postius. Produced by Keïta – Brönnimann – Niggli and Intakt Records. Published and copyright by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.

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Lucas Niggli Uster, Switzerland

Born 1968, lives in Zürich.

As one of the most demanded European drummer and improviser, he plays in various working-bands in the field of Jazz, Rock, New Music, Noise, World and Improvisation.

He is playing on more than 60 CDs, most of them on INTAKT Records, teaches at the University of Arts in Zurich (ZHdK) and is promoter of a concertserie for contemporary music.
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