• LP
  • Digital


Wolo So

  • Cat No: JRF0026
  • Release: 2021-07-30

Format

Digital 1500 JPY

西アフリカのマンデ族の伝統音楽と現行ロンドン・ジャズ・シーンが見事に融合した、ジャンベ奏者/作編曲家Yahael Camara Onono率いる、KokorokoやSEED Ensembleなどの名手達も参加する16人編成のビックバンドBalimaya Projectによるデビューアルバム「Wolo So」が待望リリース!!レコメンド。

5年の歳月をかけて、自らのルーツ/アイデンティティをじっくりと省みて制作された、西アフリカ・マンデ族の伝統音楽とリズム、アフロジャズ、インプロヴィゼーション等が高い演奏力とモダン・グルーヴで悠久エレガントにスパーク調和アンサンブル構築された全7トラックが収録されている。Mojo、Jamz Supernova (BBC 6 Music), Musica Macondo, Jez Nelson (Jazz FM), Robert Elms (BBC Radio London), Gideon Coe (BBC 6 Music), Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 Music), Cerys Matthews 等々に絶賛サポート&プレイされた注目アルバム。 (コンピューマ) (LPのコメントから参照)

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Led by composer/arranger and leading UK-based Djembe player, Yahael Camara Onono and featuring members of bands including Kokoroko and SEED Ensemble, Balimaya Project intently synthesise and bridge London's bustling jazz circuit with traditional repertoire and folklore of the Mandé peoples of West Africa, and in turn connect the music's contemporary and ancestral forebears.
Their album Wolo So arrives after five years in the making, yet its roots chart a young percussionist forging a deeper musical identity from even further back.
Meaning 'the essence of kinship' in Mandé's Maninka language, the word Balimaya articulates a family model not limited to blood relations but of a shared history and experience, of friendship and community, a concept at the heart of Camara Onono's vision for the 16-piece group, declaring that "it's become a brotherhood."
Like Fela's Egypt 80 or Sun Ra's Arkestra before them, Balimaya Project are a big band unlike any other. Made up of members from across the UK's landscape of Afrobeats and jazz to UK Rap, the idea was to create a fuller sound with many instruments that are used for traditional music.
Camara Onono's vision on this project has been to bring together and make emotionally available to each other, young black men in the diaspora and celebrate them in a way that doesn't happen enough. He has brought together people who understand the music of black Britain and of the African continent.
Having performed himself with Family Atlantica and Maisha, Camara Onono has recruited musicians including Godwin Sonzé (Young T & Bugsey, Juls and Wande Coal) and Moses Olukayode (who performed at Burna Boy's Grammy Awards performance 2021).
Supported by Mojo, Jamz Supernova (BBC 6 Music), Musica Macondo, Jez Nelson (Jazz FM), Robert Elms (BBC Radio London), Gideon Coe (BBC 6 Music), Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 Music), Cerys Matthews and many more, Wolo So is released on the Jazz re:freshed label.

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