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MUSIC: Ablaye & The Links (Jazz, Rock, Mablax) // Melka AMANY (Soul) // Bomboro KOSSO (Reggae) // Shahin eL عabkary (Arab Rap, Hip Hop) // JuJuCracy (Hip Hop) // JESERS (Chanson, World, Hip Hop) // NJAAYA & Band (Soul, RNB, Reggae, Hip Hop) // KOKI (Pop) // IamBad “Show Spirale” (Slam) // Madou Sidiki DIBATE(Mandingo
Music, Kora) // Ghirmay ANDOM (Eritrean Music)// IKOBE (Acoustic Music) // Djeli Moussa Condé Trio (Groove Mandingo) // Mamady DIABATE and Vibration Mandingue (Bossa, Jazz, Mandingo)// Dumba Kultur (Tradi-Modern) // PAINTING: Coline LAMY (Figurative) // Patrick SINGH (Figurative)// Elie DRO (Abstracts) // Le Quartier Général (Figurative)
// PHOTOS : Nicolas REMENE (Figurative)// Frédéric RIDENT (Landscapes)
The hidden talents discovered by the African Dream // The association The African Dream is hunter and coordinator
of talent throughout social networks. Every year new artists are discovered
among more than 400 participants.
Here is a selection of some artists who deserve to be widely known. Until they find cultural actors who will support
them (Managers, Producers, Tour Managers, Distributors…), the African Dream
offers the support of its structure (Tour Manager, Manager, Press attaché, Producer).
!!! Come and discover the
African Dream artists programmed on October 14th, 15th, 16th
2011 on the big stage of the AFRICAN FEAR in Paris
at the Grande Halle de la Villette: www.foireafricaine.com !!!
Modern Music
>> Ablaye MBAYE & The Links // Mbalax, Jazz,
Rock // www.myspace.com/ablayembayelinks
Ablaye & The Links unite France and Senegal. They found the universal language. Their cultural mix
is nicely balanced without contradictions among influences, and offers the “Nu World” style, a style close
to jazz-rock, m'balaax, pop, variety and movie soundtracks. Anyone finds its place in this reassuring universe.
☼☼ Ablaye MBAYE worked in collaboration with Youssou N’DOUR and went on tours
with him during 7 years, Kery JAMES, Disiz La peste, Maria Carey,… The Links
come from a different universe and performed with the musicians of Ry CHARLES,
Désert Rebel, Pause, Nahema, Moon Zaia and Tarace Boulba…
Album to be issued in 2012: « Parlons
entre nous »
Some videos to seduce
you: Live « Plaisir » // « Ma demande est là » //Meadley
>> Melka AMANY // Soul// www.myspace.com/melkamusic
MELKA AMANY, unique sensation that does not leave us indifferent. Strength and depth,
sensitivity and mastery, power and voluptuousness are mixed and attract us in
the whirling motion of melodies!
MELKA AMANY, it is the invitation to
travel, a soft revelation, thanks to thin and powerful melodies... an angel’s
caress!!! Universal and new, her voice overwhelms us and wakes up the vocal
enchantment of Tina Turner, Jackson Five, Lauryn Hill, M’bilia Bel, Angie
Stone, Miriam Makeba...
One video to seduce you: At the Olympic
Café
Next coming concerts: On October
15th, 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR at the Grande Halle de la
Villette (Paris)
>> Bomboro KOSSO // Reggae// www.myspace.com/bomborokosso
Bomboro KOSSO presents a
really African reggae, positive and copper-coloured. Bomboro Kosso asks real questions, is clearly committed. He
denounces injustice, the plagues that destroy Africa.
Bomboro Kosso has his own
music personality, his own energy and proposes something else. A voluntarily
more dancing character, maybe lighter in his form. Mixing African rhythms and
Jamaican roots (and even ska), the result is convincing.
One video to seduce you: Live – Clip Salamalécoum
Next coming concerts: On October 20th
2011 at Paradox (Marseille) On October 22nd, 2011 at the Olympic
Café (Paris)
>> Shahin eL عabkary // Arab Rap, Hip Hop // www.myspace.com/mistashahin
Shahin is the youngest rap singer of Y-Crew Family, Ahmed Shahin, known as sHaHin el 3abkary. He lives
in Alexandria,
the Hip-hop city in Egypt.
When he began, Shahin was the youngest rap singer in Egypt. In 2006 he met Y-Crew
Family, they helped him and showed him the way. An artist discovered thanks to his new style. Today
his aim is to widen the Arab Hip-Hop culture all over the world.
☼☼ Shahin works a lot in collaboration with different rap
singers from Egypt
and other countries…
Some tracks to seduce you: Le Feen Weselt Ft. Deep Case // 7elwa Ya Balady
>> JuJuCracy // Hip Hop// www.myspace.com/sonofthedrunkardking
JUJuCracy links the sound with
the picture. A very original set to be discovered. When he applied to Yaoundé University
« THEATER AND CINEMA
ARTS » he discovered that it was a perfect "prison" for his
soul. JujuCRACY started to produce himself visual arts and music, and found in
the city a new 'FREE HOLLYWOOD';
he calls it JUJUROCK, free from
any rule or norm of judgment, seeing sounds and hearing pictures.
One video to seduce you: Clip « a day
shall come »
>> JESERS // Chanson, Hip Hop, World// www.myspace.com/jesersserge
JESRS is our Mixed Gainsbourg. He likes
well-done job so he started mosaic art, with words and rhythms. JESERS gets his
resources from his African roots to draw horizons where songs and the
importance of words brighten rhythms. Interpreter and
author, he has performed thundering scene shows since 1995.
☼☼ Among his meetings in live
shows, in parallel to his band La Vieille Ecole, he met MC Solaar, Jamiroquai,
Saïan Supa Crew or Sergent Garcia, present in the Festivals printemps de
Bourges, Eurockéennes, FrancoFolies de
Montréal, Berlin, in
Capo Verde, Senegal,
Japon and Detroit
... ...
One video to seduce you: Clip « J’aimerai
qu’on sème » – Feat ADAMO
Next coming concerts: On September 24th
2011 at the Grand Casino in Bâle (Switzerland)
>> NJAAYA & Band // Hip Hop, Blues, Soul, Reggae // www.myspace.com/njaayaa
NJAAYA & Band proposes
severe tones on very modern music close to RNB, Soul or Reggae. Any one who discovered these
diverse performances foresees a great future in music…
☼☼ Njaaya started to work professionally in music world
by working during almost two years with PBS Radikal of Didier Awadi where she
was back vocalist. It is after this experience that she joined the band Alif
(first band of female rap in Senegal) to gain « a more female expression »
according to her words.
Some tracks to seduce you: Da na mègne // MBINDAAN
>> KOKI // Pop// www.myspace.com/kokiconnection
Koki, it is a crazy and beyond limits energy, crazy pop sounds and a real
mix of influences from Michael Jackson, Leny Kravitz, Nirvana to Fela Kuti and
Myriam Makeba! KOKI is an author/ composer
/ interpreter. In his music creations, Koki talks in English and in French
about Human themes, universal themes such as search for happiness, hope and
committed topics like racism and authoritarism.
One video to seduce you: In Live
Next coming concerts: on October 14th 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR
in the Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris)
>> IAMBAD « le Show Spirale » // Slam// www.myspace.com/islamabad31
Islam presents a new form of
artistic chaos. “Spirale” is a modern tale; the fusion between urban music, classic music
(piano, lyric voice) and theater; all of this is accompanied by short movies
where the main character is challenged to his own alter ego.
☼☼ Islam already
won the Young Discoveries Award in Cannes and was supported by Luc Besson and
received the support from many other talents such as Akenathon, Sexion
d’assaut, Kery James…
One video to seduce you: Live – Ils le
soutiennent
Next coming concerts: On October 20th 2011 at the Paradox
(Marseille), on October 2nd 2011 at Olympic Café (Paris)
Traditional /
Tradi-Modern Music
>> Madou Sidiki DIABATE // Mandingo Music, Kora // www.myspace.com/madousidikidiabate
Madou is the son of Sidiki
Diabaté, famous Gambian musician who emigrated to Mali before the Independence
who recorded in 1971 the first kora album solo in the History of music, and son
of Mariam Kouyaté, great story-teller from Mali. It is in this family
environment that Madou started to play the kora with 8 strings when he was
three. Music is easy
as a toy and is part of his daily life. Today, he presents a Mandingo band (Kora, Guitar,
Bass, Drums, Vocal), in the art of tradition…
☼☼ Madou works in collaboration with artists such as
Toumani DIABATE (his brother), Cheick Tidiane Seck, Dee Dee Bridgewater,
Sékouba Bambino, Alex Wilson, Ras Mickeal, Paco Sery, Jean Philippe Rykiel... ……
Some tracks to seduce you: La nuit des
divas au Zenith de Paris //Baralahou
>> Ghirmay ANDOM // Eritrean Music //www.myspace.com/ghirmayandom
Ghirmay Andom is an Eritrean author, composer and
interpreter. His music is
the result of his original and harmonious alliance of modern and traditional
instruments played by ethnic
tribes in Eritrea: “waata”, “kirar”, “koboro”, “shambuko”, “darabuka”,
“abangala”, etc.
☼☼ Since his victory at the AFRO PEPITES SHOW, Ghirmay
ANDOM lives better on his art in his country.
Some links to seduce you: Clip TEKEDIME // Song Jonna
>> IKOBE // Acoustic Music // www.myspace.com/ikobemuzikgroup
IKOBE is a band of young
artists from Rwanda, well motivated to make you travel through their country of
1000 hills! IKOBE shares the passion of music, this is a band which
started in the university centre of arts in Butare, Rwanda. IKOBE
proposes a music in which culture and ancient songs of storytellers communicate
a message of life, all of this in an acoustic mix of guitars, percussions
and traditional instruments such as inanga and ikembe.
One video to seduce you: Live
>> Djeli Moussa Condé Trio // Guinean Groove // www.myspace.com/djelimoussakondetrio
Djeli Moussa has velvet fingers and sweet voice. "Djéli moussa condé"
began his personal project with three musicians, with a bass, some percussions
and machines, in a tribe and modern project, grazing pop and electro...
☼☼ Djéli moussa condé worked in collaboration with Manu Dibango, Salif Keïta,
Mory Kante, Alpha Blondy, Césaria Evora, Hank Jones, Cheick Tydiane, Mama
Keïta,
One video to seduce you: Au Cabaret
Sauvage
Next coming concerts: On September 24th 2011 at Olympic Café (Paris), on October 15th
2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR AT Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris)
>> Mamady
DIABATE & Le Vibration Mandingue //World, Jazz, Bossa, Mandingo
Mamady DIABATE is from Guinea. Talented guitarist born in a family of storytellers, his
father Lamine DIABATE was a great player of Ngoni in the instrumental band of
Guinea, his mother Saran KOUYATE and his sister Saran KANTE are two great Guinean
music divas. At the end of 1999, he went for the first time in Europe with
Sayon CAMARA, and then he moved to Portugal and traveled through many countries
such as Brazil, Mexico, England... Enriched by his
meetings and trips, Mamady moved to Paris and created his own band "Le
Vibration Mandingue".
☼☼ Mamady DIABATE also worked
with artists such as Amadou Sodia, Mory Djely Deen KOYATE, Maciré SYLLA, Sayon
CAMARA...
Next coming concerts: On October 7th and November 11th
2011 at the Olympic Café (Paris), on October 14th, 15th
and 16th 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR at Grande Halle de la Villette
(Paris)
>> Dumba Kultur // Modern Tradi Mandingo // www.myspace.com/dumbakultur
Dumba KULTUR: it really works, melodies remain, an attracting
broken voice… The prince and the hunter to seduce you… Dumba Kultur presents Mossi rhythms, accompanied by
the strings of N'goni and Kora, subtile resonances of calabash and djembe.
Some videos
to seduce you: Clip Nansara // Ntekerine
Painting
>> Coline LAMY // Figurative // www.myspace.com/colamy
Coline is a self-taught;
drawing and pastel are her passion pleasures, giving her the opportunity to
escape from the daily life and to express some emotions.
Africa had always interested her, she could not explain why. The only
country she has visited by now is Morocco but she is not done yet ;o)
Coline does not paint only paintings inspired by Africa, she is inspired in the
first place by the expression and the presence of some glances.
>> Patrick SINGH // Figurative// www.myspace.com/patricksinghpaintings/photos
Painter,
drawer, plastic artist, Patrick Singh was meant to meet with different cultures. On his canvas, drawing books, object books and other scrap
he uses, appear Black faces of slaves deported to America and of Modern African Diaspora … or even Indian faces
met in the remote regions of South America...
One video to
seduce you: Exhibition in Montauban (France)
>> Elie DRO // Abstract // www.eliedro.com
Eli DRO is a painter creating
dreams. Eli DRO presents paintings, which ask, suggest, and involve your
imagination… The themes are: aids, excision, war... Eli touches with his finger
the problems that anyone can develop as long as one wishes so. This strategy to
make spirits deliver gives to this practice a celebration of imagination and poetry
by giving space to anyone's mind. Eli uses African mythes, parables, symbols, proverbs. Like a chameleon, he seems to hide himself through a
changing skin that adapts to circumstances.
>> Le Quartier Général // Figurative// www.myspace.com/lequartiergeneral
Le Quartier Général, it is a
duet of graphic artists and illustrators sisters who create the atmosphere of a
cultural Black American travel.
Le Quartier Général launches a set « Papiers
Ordinaires », a figurative work of portraits entirely created with felt, big
size, scale one. This project
consists in series like a pagan « pilgrimage », travelling through cultures.
They want to have this project out from their workshop and go and meet diverse
places to give birth to a « travel » celebrating mix.
Photography
>> Nicolas REMENE // Exhibition of
Pictures from Africa // www.nicolasremene.com
Nicolas REMENE reveals treasures, resources and simple moments given by
life… Nicolas makes us plunge into
the atmosphere and universe of Africa.
One video to seduce you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHbAYr4Iyk&feature=player_embedded
>> Frédéric RIDENT // Exhibition Photos from Africa // http://rident.yellowpics.net
Frédéric is a freelance photographer. He likes very
much pictures of veils and of illustrations. To him, Africa has always been a
dream of life...
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