Three young brothers from Dakar who have chosen the acoustic folk music route to create a new vision of Senegalese Music. Their music is rooted in their environment at the crossroads of several cultural traditions of Senegal and West Africa. In their own words “our music has no colour, no age. It is music for all humans and all races; like a river its destiny is not to withdraw within its ethnic circle, but rather to flow into the ocean of global music with an identity continually open onto the outside. The manatee which never forgets its source.”
We’re talking music with curative values. Guitars, percussion, woodwinds and voices that you’d never dare try and dance to. In this digitally-dominated age, it’s refreshing to be able to sit back and be soothed by sound that is so captivating in its simplicity and such a welcome departure from fast-food music.
The three brothers Alioune, Djiby, and Cheikh, have been cornering the new vision of Senegalese folk ever since they started playing at jazz and cabaret clubs near their native home-town of Yarakh.
There is a delightfully fresh mix of harmonised vocals and dizzying acoustics guitar punctuated by discreet drum rhythms and tinkling woodwind melody. The lyrics are agreeably introspective and tackle a range of African issues including injustice against women and resistance against colonialism.
Genuine music for the listener who has no colour, no age, and no time for bandwagon imitators of all that has become rather nasty in so called ethnic music marketing.
Drop your guard, open your mind and be surprised!
