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The OSM and Abel Selaocoe: Evenings When You’d Like to Stop Time

Judith Hamel — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:18:22 +0000

The OSM sometimes gives us gifts. Moments of unexpected communion, as was the case on May 22. The concert program featured the closing piece Romeo and Juliet, but it was the journey to get there that was most meaningful. The concert opened with Maurice Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye, under the expressive and precise direction of […]

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Derek Gripper au Club Balattou

Rédaction PAN M 360 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:52:30 +0000

« Mon jumeau blanc ! » s’est exclamé le maître de la kora, Toumani Diabaté, en écoutant la transposition de ses morceaux à la guitare classique. Derek Gripper s’est lancé dans une démarche artistique : adapter sur une guitare à 6 cordes toute la richesse et la complexité des accords subtils émanant de cette majestueuse […]

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Derek Gripper plays at Balattou : occidental classical guitar, African classical guitar

Alain Brunet — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:11:09 +0000

From Cape Town, South Africa, Derek Gripper adapted some african music to his classical guitar training. He is known worldwide for his transcriptions of the great kora player Toumani Diabaté’s recordings – One Night on Earth (2011) and Librairies on Fire (2016). He also played in the Symmetric Orchestra led by the famous griot. Since […]

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Mestizo at Festival Nuits d’Afrique

Rédaction PAN M 360 — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:07:00 +0000

On reconnaît tous aux premières mesures la fameuse mélodie de la pièce musicale El Cóndor Pasa, composée au tout début du 20e siècle par Daniel Alomía Robles et reprise de milliers de fois, notamment par Simon & Garfunkel. C’est dans cet univers que nous amène Mestizo, celui de la culture populaire andine, héritière des musiques précolombiennes festives. Inspiré par des […]

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Washabalal’ Umhlaba (Earth Song)

Ralph Boncy — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:31:59 +0000

Black Umfolosi is a great acapella vocal group whose roots are deep in several provinces of Zimbabwe. Its name, “the black river”, is borrowed from a neighbouring country, South Africa, with which it shares this river, now partially dried up. The other inescapable point in common with Nelson Mandela’s country is, of course, the sublime […]

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Dialectic Soul

Alain Brunet — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:38:07 +0000

Both a self-assured progressive, and eager to perpetuate his ancestral culture, South African drummer Asher Gamedze says he is exploring “the dialectic of the soul and the spirit as it moves through history”. Quite a programme! The musician’s commitment is equalled only by the proposal offered here: Dialectic Soul is nothing less than a major […]

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