Say Yes Evolved

Baba

Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze: Amanke Dionti (2012)

Airelle Besson (Trompette)
Sebastian STERNAL (Piano & Fender Rhodes)
Jonas BURGWINKEL (Batterie)

Recorded & mixed by Christian Heck at Loft Studios, Cologne, Germany.
Mastered by Christoph Stickel at CS mastering, Austria

Composition :
1, 3, 4, 5, 6 Airelle Besson
2, 7, 8, 9, 10 Sebastian Sternal
Produced by Papillon Jaune

A Co-production with Deutschlandfunk
(p) (c) 2024 Deutschlandradio/Contractual Party

Photo : Sylvain Gripoix
Artwork : Gala Collette

01. Time To Say Goodbye (Airelle BESSON)

Le Concile des Oiseaux (2024)
Didier Malherbe : doudouk, flûtes, flûte Bawu, ocarinas, khaen.
Loy Ehrlich : hajouj, awicha, gumbass, kora, ribab, cellito
d’amore, laouto, percussions, osmose keyboard.
Le Concile des Oiseaux
Steve Shehan : balais berbères Tao Ehrlich: cymbales.

HADOUK  - Le Concile Des Oiseaux -08 - Haj Bawu Blues - FR9W12417192  96k - 24b

A peaceful and inspiring instrumental blending gentle symphony orchestra with soft acoustic guitar and piano. Warm strings, light harmonies, and flowing melodies create a calm atmosphere for studying, reading, or quiet reflection. Perfect background for focus, relaxation, and peaceful moments.

Sweet Day Dreams

Etudes II

Etude No. 43 in G minor

Airelle Besson/Nelson Veras -'Pouki Pouki' (Airelle Besson)

Transparent Water is the new studio collaboration between 7-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist-composer-bandleader Omar Sosa and Nottingham-based Senegalese singer and kora master Seckou Keita.  It’s slated for release in February 2017.

The project idea grew out of Sosa’s impromptu addition to a mid–2012 date with drummer Marque Gilmore at the CLF Art Café in London, in what was Sosa and Keita’s first musical encounter.  Profoundly moved by the experience, Omar told Seckou he wanted to invite him to work together on a future recording project.
Given their respective touring and recording schedules, it took a year, but in July 2013 Omar and Seckou went into the Fattoria Musica recording studio in Osnabrück, Germany and laid down the core tracks for Transparent Water.

Another chance meeting informs Transparent Water:  in April 2013, Galician bagpiper-pianist-composer Cristina Pato invited Omar to Santiago de Compostela, where Pato hosts an annual residency frequented by associates of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.  There Omar met Silk Road charter member and sheng master Wu Tong, whom Omar was moved to bring into the project.  In connection with a concert date in Shanghai in July 2014, Omar arranged a side trip to Beijing to record Wu Tong’s traditional flute overdubs.

Tokyo-born, Paris-based koto player Mieko Miyazaki came to Omar’s attention via her recorded work with French jazz guitarist Nguyên Lê.  When Omar finally had the chance to meet her, Mieko’s creative spirit utterly impressed him, and he enlisted her distinctive voice for Transparent Water.

For percussion, Omar turned to longtime collaborator Gustavo Ovalles, who divides his time between France and his native Venezuela.  Ovalles (who can be heard on three prior Sosa projects—Sentir, Ayaguna, and Eggūn) brings the polyrhythmic soul of the African Diaspora to Transparent Water.

Paris-based drummer-producer Steve Argüelles crafted the mix with Omar, having previously worked on Sosa’s award-winning Mulatos and Afreecanos CDs.

Transparent Water is the latest example of Omar Sosa’s transcendent determination to seek new combinations, a manifestation of improvisatory freedom wherein the musical destination is subordinate to the extemporaneous joy of shared artistic expression.  Omar observes that, as he did with Sentir, “What I wanted to do was create something totally improvised.”

Transparent Water—suggestive of translucence and flowing light—is a deeply spiritual recording that reveals its inspiration in the close and compassionate listening of artists engaged in a genial and captivating musical conversation, liberated from time itself, reaching across five continents to probe the collective spirit of the human condition.

Dary (5.09)

Alto Saxophone – Charlie "Sir Charles" Mariano
Bass – Steve "Dr. Zvalov" Swallow
Congas – Milton Cardona 
Frame Drums – Nabil Khaiat 
Drums [South Indian], Percussion – Ramesh Shotham 
Flugelhorn, Trumpet – Kenny Wheeler 
Oud, Producer, Composer, Artwork – Rabih Abou-Khalil

Rabih Abou Khalil - Sahara

Quando alcuni mesi fa ho sentito questa bellissima canzone di René Aubry ho subito pensato alla mia piccola Nora e mi sono ripromesso di impararla e di suonargliela.. poco tempo fa mi è venuta l'idea di preparare per il suo compleanno questo regalo, l'ho registrata e ho montato il video.. 
Buon compleanno piccolina!