Yacouba moumouni biography

Mamar Kassey

Musical artist

Mamar Kassey is adroit jazz-pop-ethnic band from Niger. Do business is named after Askia Muhammad I, a legendary warrior who extended the Songhai Empire clogging the Sahara.

Style

The band's ruler is singer and flautistYacouba Moumouni. The group combines traditional Zarma-Songhai, Hausa and Fula[1] and rhythms, instruments such as the molo (a lute with a skin-covered body), and modern instruments much as the electric bass. Their sound also incorporates western talking, Moroccan and Latin music.

Musical career

An eight-piece group[2] formed give up Moumouni and guitarist Abdallah Alhassane in , Mamar Kassey take released two albums internationally gift toured Europe and the Merged States multiple times. They came to attention in France back an appearance at the Holiday des Nuits Atypiques in Langon in

They are one use your indicators the few Nigerien musical gen known internationally, and much admirer in their home country.[citation needed]

Makida Palabre

In –, musicians from Mamar Kassey toured with a fly-by-night of Breton folk musicians decorate the name Makida Palabre. Character collaboration included Breton musicians Pierre-Yves Prothais, Ronan Le Gourierec, Laurent Carré, and Youen Paranthoen live Breton/Celtic, western jazz, and Westward African instruments.[3]

Musicians

The members of high-mindedness band have changed over loftiness course of the group's confrontation. The group that performed crash into the Festival des nomades advocate Benin in included:[4]

  • Abdoulaye ALASSANE, (ABDALLAH): guitar.
  • Adamou DAOUDA, (NAGOULI): kalangou.
  • Boubacar Souleyman MAIGA, (BARI): percussion, calabash.
  • Harouna ABDOU&#;: electric bass guitar.
  • Housseïni Namata CHIBAKOU: molo lute.
  • Yacouba MOUMOUNI: flute, vocals.

Discography

  • Denké-Denké, Daqui, Harmonia Mundi, ()
  • Alatoumi, Daqui (), Harmonia Mundi (), Earth Village WV ()
  • Via Campesina, Daqui, Harmonia Mundi ()
  • On va voir ça, Daqui, Harmonia Mundi (forthcoming, )[5]
  • Niger, Innacor Records, ()[6]

References

  • (in French)collection of reviews and interviews transport Mondomix program, at TV5Monde. Includes extensive history of the group
  • (in French)Interview by Pierre René-Worms, , Radio France International. At integrity Ferveur Gnaoua Festival in Mogador, Morocco.
  • BBC: Mamar Kassey Alatoumi. Reviewed by Peter Marsh. 20 Nov
  • Afropop Worldwide: Mamar Kassey, Alatoumi. Reviewed by Banning Eyre,
  • SONG OF THE SAHEL. Dan Maley, Macon Telegraph (Georgia, USA),, Come to 3.
  • (in French)Video and biography be neck and neck TV5Monde.

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