Long Beach Jazz Search Competition named Long John Oliva “Latin Jazz Artist of the Year” and the AC (Afro-Cuban) Project “Latin Jazz Artists of the Year” (2003, 2004). Lucumi 20th Anniversary Collector’s Box Set” is in the works. Set to be released in 2023 (date to be announced), “Lucumi” will expose Long John Oliva’s music to a new generation of listeners and hopefully, lead to a renewed interest and appreciation of Oliva’s body of work.

I´m self employed musician and music instructor from Berlin Germany and playing Afro-inspired Music. I worked more then 20 years in West-Africa with the National-Dance-Ensemble of Ghana and mainly with great musicians from Burkina-Faso, Guinea an Mali. I lead a international Drumming and Dancing-School in Ghana from 1987 till Millennium and work as an musician and instructor in Germany. 
I love polyrhythm, afro-and latin, jazz, funk, and any good grooving handmade music and play many african instruments like any westafrican percussions, Balafon, Xylophohne, also Congas, Drumset and Piano. I produce some arrangements and compose some breaks. 
If you enjoy what you hear, i will love to hear from you:
info@africanart.de

Tonicum Music
Jan Rase
Producer/Composer
Musicproduction for Films and Artists
Recordingstudio




Mamadou Diabate is an award winning balafon master and composer born in Burkina Faso. He is coming from a traditional  “Jeli” family of music making and story telling of the Sambla peoples. He was 5 years old when his professional education began. His virtuosity is outstanding - some people say, he would have more than two hands. Explicit techniques allow Mamadou to play the balafon alone but to create the music like three musicians. Since 2001 he has released over 12 CD´s. The CD “Keneya” is the world premiere recording of the traditional balafon music of the Sambla people. This music is in reality the Sambla language translated into music. Musicians, who don't speak this language can't play it at all. Today his unique line up with two balafon upfront as lead instruments characterizes Mamadou Diababte & Percussion Mania. That makes the project the ONLY formation of this kind worldwide, different to all other West African bands. Musical dialogs and spectacular balafon duels between the two brothers Mamadou and Seydou Diabate are one of the highlights of the show. Today Mamadou lives in Vienna. He has worked with numerous people around the world and is Burkina Faso´s most famous player.

We are an independent record label and a music production house, dedicated to the traditional and contemporary music of Mali. We record, edit, package and distribute original music by Malian artists. Mieruba was established in the ancient city of Ségou in 2007 and we are still based here.

 As an independent label, we make original music productions available to the general public under our own brand name, be they audio recordings or video clips. We do this, because we consider it our responsibility to preserve and promote Mali’s rich cultural and musical heritage and make new artistic discoveries. Between 2010 and 2018, Mieruba issued a series of eight albums, as part of its project The Lost Maestros. Almost all of the music was recorded here in Ségou. We are running a number of projects, alongside The Lost Maestros; we will present these shortly. Mali, our country, has earned worldwide fame for its art, especially its high-quality musical productions. We are considered Africa’s premier musical exporter. But in spite of all this artistic wealth, most of Mali’s artists release their work on labels outside the country. This is the main reason why we found it necessary to create a label here and call it Mieruba. 

At the origin of it all was our desire to create high-quality work in close collaboration with the artists themselves. And it this passion that continues to fuel everything we do. All of us, whether it is the label’s founder, the paid and unpaid workers, the interns and everyone else who works with us in the production and distribution – we all get our energy from this love for music. This is what propels us forward. Our mission really is to put front and centre the kind of music that often gets ignored by the mainstream. In this sense, we are part of a counterculture, standing firm against the kind of musical standardisation you can hear all around you. Through its musical productions, Mieruba helps to safeguard musical diversity and promote musical democracy. We want to become the passageway, taking the music from the realm of unpaid craftsmanship, through emergence and into the professional sphere.

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