Ismaël Lô : discography
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Album : Classics Titles Label : Cantos Year : 2006 |
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Album : Senegal Year : 2006 |
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Album : Dabah Label : Universal Year : 2001 |
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Album : The ballader : The best of Ismael Lo Label : Sony Music Year : 2001 |
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Album : Tadieu bone Label : Syllart Year : 1999 |
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Album : Jammu Africa Year : 1996 Ref : CD 534 233 2 |
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Album : Iso Label : Mango Year : 1994 Ref : CD 522 362-2 |
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Album : Ismaël Lô Label : Barclay Year : 1991 Ref : CD 847 972 2 |
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Album : Tajabone Label : Barclay Year : 1991 Ref : CD 847 972-2 Tajabone Sun/NeXT audio (334 K) |
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Album : Diawar Label : Syllart Year : 1989 Ref : CD 38759-2 Jelebi Sun/NeXT audio (419 K) Bode Gor Sun/NeXT audio (228 K) |
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Album : Natt Label : Syllart Year : 1987 Ref : CD 38740-2 |
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FESTIVALS GALORE TO REVEL IN - OR AVOID !
July/August rhymes with a festival-feast throughout much of the world. Mondomix will be present at several, including far-flung corners like Malaysia, the Reunion Island and Morocco. But there are some places one can avoid…
Well, it’s the summer season in the West, and as usual, world music journalists are offered a plethora of festivals to flock to. July and August are vital months for promoters and festival directors, vying to entice the relaxed and enthusiastic music fans with a whole smorgasbord of international artists. Along the French Mediterranean coast alone, there are almost 400 music festivals to choose from. This proliferation is threatening the survival of several among them, as much-needed public funding is being squeezed, and artist fees continue to go spiralling up.
To the north, things are not much easier : “People are sacrificing the luxury of a concert or festival,” sighed one promoter as we discussed her realities. “The prices are not going down and we’re all feeling the economic pinch.” She was working on an unpretentious and enjoyable festival a couple of hours drive south of Paris called Tous sur le Pont. It had just pulled off a tour de force by programming the ageless Iggy Pop and The Stooges for their first French gig featuring their new album The Weirdness. What a wild and whacky evening that was in the courtyard of the Blois Castle. I mean, what would Louis XII have made of this sexagenarian writhing like an iguana to his madcap lyrics, as he looked down from his regal horse ? It was an occasion of endless fun.
Les Nuits Atypiques, southeast of Bordeaux, is another gathering worth checking out. Between July 26 and 29, it invites a rich smattering of quality artists, headed by the gifted Jubran Brothers (Palestine), Romano Drom (Hungary) and the Miyazaki Trio (Japan). The festival has been hard-hit financially in the past few years, yet it continues to pull out an original and challenging programme. Their mixture of music, debate, cinema and theatre aims at reshaping our Euro-centric vision of the world and its socio-cultural realities. Behind this 16th edition is a dedicated group of individuals who have also set up the plucky music label Daqui.
Such manifestations deserve public support for keeping prices reasonable and offering help and services with the right balance of efficiency and friendliness. The lack of both is what keeps me away from festivals like Sud à Arles, Africa Festival and WOMAD. Their smug confidence in a routine turnout of the masses has made them unpleasant hang-outs for music fans keen on discovering new and unusual names in a congenial atmosphere. (I’m sure I’ll be receiving a few letters after that comment, but this Editorial space is also here for me to give my half-cent’s worth. Your reactions are welcome). So much choice out there, so little need to waste one’s energy with aggressive people more set on their own egos than on creating a convivial atmosphere around quality music.
By just Googling “world music festivals 2007”, you come up with over 100 million references. On the first page you’ll fall on summer gatherings in California (Frogtown!), Namur, Budapest and the island of Borneo. The latter is where I’m off, once I return from the exciting fourth edition of the Timitar festival in Agadir, Morocco. The Rainforest World Music Festival, in the Malaysian part of this remarkable island, is celebrating its tenth year in 2007. This is a wonderful occasion to explore the little-reported Malaysian music scene on the world’s third-largest island. It will also be interesting to see how Tarika Be, Huun Huur Tu and the a capella group Black Umfolosi, from Zimbabwe, make out in this stunning setting.
Then I hop onto another island, this time in the Indian Ocean. La Réunion is the paradise setting for the fourth edition of Sakifo. The five days of festivities are programmed for August 1 to 5, and they have a mouth-watering list of artists which include Ayo, Ismael Lo, Winston MacAnuff, Neneh Cherry and Jamika. Behind this flurry of musical exchange is again a dedicated group of music lovers who have spent much of their lives promoting the cultural wealth of the island. It is largely thanks to them that the likes of Daniel Waro, Ziskakan, Baster and René Lacaille have been able to export their Reunion Island music so successfully. They continue to groom emerging talents like Jaboticaba, a folk-blues trio that so impressed the audience at the last Printemps de Bourges festival. Without such devotion, websites like this one would be all the more impoverished.
Back in September !
July 2007
Source : mondomix.com | 2007-07-04 19:23:50.0
