Kategorie: Massa Dembele
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Album: FALATÔ
Falatô is Massas third album – and his first with a large band line-up. Drums, bass, guitar, shimmering synthesizer solos, crisp brass and, above all, the voice and camel N’Goni of Massa Dembele: ‘Falatô’, recorded in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, with local musicians, is Afrobeat and jazz, West African soul, desert blues and griot music. The…
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MASSA DEMBELE
Massa Dembele is a songwriter, griot, percussionist and master of the kamele n’goni, a West African harp. Nine years ago, he left Burkina Faso to find an international audience for his music. His journey took him to Ghana, among other places, where he recorded his debut album for the Canadian label Izniz. Today he lives…
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Single 7″ BARA
“Bara” means work in Bambara. “Every job has its value!” sings Massa Dembele. Every job deserves respect, including that of musicians. Dembele, born in 1989 in Nouna, comes from a griot family; during his childhood, he often witnessed how griots were not sufficiently valued by society for their work as musicians, historians and storytellers. In…
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MASSA DEMBELE Videos
Siya addresses the issue of conflicts in Burkina Faso that arise because different ethnic groups have different social status. Massa urges people to remain true to themselves, their families and their ethnic groups and not to hide their origins. It is about pride and resistance to discrimination. ‘Respect who you are and where you come…