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AFRIQUOI
‘KOLABA’
Available in CD + digital formats
We’ve come a long way since the Drummers of Burundi’s now famous appearance at the inaugural WOMAD Festival in 1982. Today a new era for ‘world music’ is emerging, both in the UK and globally. The internet and permeation of mobile technology mean ideas and musical styles are shared globally at a rate faster than ever, with hiphop scenes in Senegal, house music scenes in South Africa, Kuduro in Portugal and futuristic African music across the UK.

In London, African music has become increasingly popular. No longer deemed “exotic”, it is simply part of the musical make-up of 21st century Britain. This is the starting point for Afriquoi - a new generation of musical producers and consumers who have grown up with African music alongside house, garage, drum and bass, grime, hiphop, reggae and jazz. 

Afriquoi’s debut album ‘Kolaba’, released 11th September on Wormfood Records, is a deep project with real roots. Rather than a one-off collaboration between musicians with no musical or personal connection, ‘Kolaba’ is 
the product of four years intense work with the same group of people, deepening their knowledge of each other’s musical, cultural and personal histories. This gives the Afriquoi sound a particular richness and uniqueness.

Bringing in elements of Congolese soukous and rumba, Mandinka griot music, Shona mbira and marimba, Jamaican dancehall, house, garage, disco and drum and bass, ‘Kolaba’ embraces styles from across the African diaspora but with its roots firmly planted in London where the band live. As guitarist Fiston ‘Papa’ Lusambo says, “This is a new music. If you miss it, you miss life”.

Afriquoi came to be in 2011 when promoter and percussionist André Marmot arranged separate production collaboration sessions between producer Nico Bentley, guitarist Fiston Lusambo, kora player Jally Kebba Suso and marimba player Kudaushe Matimba.

Having run ‘Rootmaster’, the world music sessions at Hootananny Brixton since 2009, André mixed with a huge number of London’s African musicians and groups, and so was in a unique position to arrange collaborations with fellow musicians. There was no set outcome planned beyond inviting a range of musicians he admired to collaborate with a producer he trusted, and seeing what happened. 

Further collaborations took place over the next few years with Jamaican/Birmingham vocalist Serocee, deep house/ disco vocalist and singer Andre Espeut, Algerian mandol player Seddik Zebiri, dancehall singer Warrior Queen, and grime MC Badness, as well as sessions with Swedish/Botswanan mbira player Otto Gumaelius, Gambian percussionist Musa Mboob, Senegalese singer Batch Gueye and guimbri player Nuru Kane. 

Although not all these artists made it onto the album it was an important formative experience for the band’s sound and after playing shows with a variety of personnel, the band cohered in Summer 2013 with the live lineup of Jally Kebba Suso (kora), Fiston Lusambo (guitar), André Espeut (vocals), Nico Bentley (live electronics) and André Marmot (percussion). 

Having performed at a hugely diverse range of festivals and venues including Glastonbury, The London Olympics 2012, Bestival, Secret Garden Party, Fusion Festival and many more, Afriquoi are set for more shows this summer with the ‘Kolaba’ album launch at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, 11th September.

2015 live shows:

JULY
4th	SCOTLAND		Kelburn Garden Party
5th	LEEDS			Hi-Fi
17th	LONDON 		Lovebox Festival
18th	LANCASHIRE		Beat Herder Festival
25th	CAMBRIDGESHIRE	Secret Garden Party
AUGUST
1st	HOLLAND		Ruigoord Festival 
15th	GERMANY		3000grad Festival
29th	NORTHAMPTONSHIRE	Shambala Festival (DJ set)
30th	ITALY			Kribiskrabis Festival
31st	CROATIA		Dimensions Festival
SEPTEMBER
3rd	CROATIA		Outlook Festival, Croatia
11th	LONDON		Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre


Kudaushe (ft Kudaushe Matimba)

'Ka'ayal' from the album 'Fatamorgana' by Gerhard Fankhauser & Einat Gilboa

Fatamorgana

Ka'ayal

Ka'ayal - Gerhard & Einat

Pulsing is a Musical experience breaking the boundaries between the audience and the musicians, inviting us all to take part in making creating the music through the use of our body and voice.
The 'pulsing' album was recorded mostly live to capture the unique vibe of this experience.

Pulsing

A Voice in the Wind

קןרה קורה/תפילה

Diamonds & Demons

Long Way Home

ליאלה וברקו – אמת בלב   
;מילים: ברק ירושלמי   
 לחן (melody, melodia): Carlos Henrique (Feijao)

ליאלה – שירה, שייקר   
;ברק ירושלמי – שירה, טמבורין   
;עודד בן ליש – גיטרות, קולות  
;אייל בנר – תופים   
;אייל אפשטיין – גיטרה בס, יוקללה, אפקטים, מיקס  
 
;הוקלט באולפניי אייל אפשטיין בבית קשת   
 

אמא אדמה קוראת לי
אבא אלוהים אוהב
עוטפים מלמטה מלמעלה
ובשמחה הם נפגשים אצלי בלב
 
כשהאהבה עוטפת
אפתח את ליבי זה כה נעים
אך בל אשכח לפתוח דלת
גם כשכואב וברגעים קשים
 
אמת בלב
 
אנא תנו לי התבונה
להבחין בכל הטוב בכל היש
ואנא למדוני סבלנות
כדי שלא אשרוף הכול באש
 
אמת בלב
 
הה יהה יהה יהה
אמת בלב
 
אלוהים שומר מלמעלה
מלא ליבנו באומץ רב
אומץ להיות עצמנו
אומץ לחיות כאן ועכשיו
 
עם אמת בלב
 
הה יהה יהה יהה
אמת בלב

Mother earth is calling me
Father god is loving 
Wrapping from above and below
With joy they come togehter in my heart

When love is wrapping
I open my heart it feels so good
But i also remember to open the door
In hard moments and in pain

Truth in my heart (emet balev)

Please give me the wisdom
To see all the goodness and all there is
And please teach me patience
So i won't burn everything in the fire

Emet balev.. (truth in the heart) 
Heya heya heya hey..

God that watch us from above
Fill our hearts with courage
The courage to be ourselves
The courage to live here and now

With truth in the heart.. (eem emet balev..) 
Heya heya..

Mother earth is calling me
Father god loving
Wrapping from above and below
With love they meet inside my heart

***

IN HEBREW:

Ima adama koret li
Aba elohim ohev
Otfim milemata milema'ala
Ve besimcha hem nifgashim etsli balev

Ksheha ahava otefet
Eftach libi ze ko naim
Ach bal eshkach lifto'ach delet
Ksheko'ev uoo birga'im kashim

Emet balev..

Ana tnoo li hatvoona
Le'havchin bekol hatov bekol hayesh
Ve ana lamdooni savlanoot
Kdei shelo esrof hakol ba'esh

Emet balev..

Elohim shomer milma'ala
Male' libenoo be'omets rav
Omets liyot atsmeinoo
Omets lichyot kan ve'achshav

Eem emet balev..

Ima adama koret li
Aba elohim ohev
Otfim milemata milema'ala
Ba'Ahava hem nifgashim etsli balev


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EMET BALEV

Liela & Baraku – EMET BALEV - ליאלה וברקו – אמת בלב

Meditation - 432htz

Roy Shinar -רועי שנער-ילד - לחן  על פי השיר 
Alas en mis pies
 של 
German Virguez

מתארח בתכנית עולם קטן ברדיו מהות החיים
Olam Katan is a radio show hosted by Ori Bankhalter in EOL radio station

Olam Katan on demand archive: goo.gl/g2Cvk0
ori bankhalter facebook: www.facebook.com/ori.bankhalter.music/?fref=ts
for more live sessions from olam katan: @user-550649120

olam katan is broadcasted live - sunday to wendsday 12:00-14:00 (reruns 20:00-22:00) in eol radio - link to the live: live.eol.co.il/

Meditation - 432htz

sergey soldatov