#fatoumata diawara damon albarn

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Fatoumata Diawara & Damon Albarn créent London Ko : fusion de Bamako et Londres

Avec son nouvel album London Ko, Fatoumata Diawara réinvente la musique traditionnelle africaine, elle qui nous avait dernièrement replongé dans ses racines mandingues, avec les projets Maliba ou Le Vol du Boli d’Abderrahmane Sissako. C’est avec son dernier album Fenfo qu’elle avait entamé l’invention de son propre style, qui lui a valu une nomination aux Grammy Awards et aux Victoires de la…

[no-distance-left-to-run]

some recent additions to my record collection

[damonalbarn]

Later… with Jools Holland, 17 June 2023 Fatoumata Diawara and Damon performed Nsera

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Fatoumata Diawara - Nsera feat. Damon Albarn (Official Video)

[terracottahearted]

Damon's love and support of black music and artists sets the standard for other white artists. He uses his privilege and platform to uplift marginalized voices without once taking credit from those artists. 2/3rds of Gorillaz collaborators are POC. In 1993 Damon called mainstream rock racist. Saying that it ignore the black creators of it in favor of white artists. Called it xenophobic and anti black. He refused to play LiveAid because of a lack of black artists. Attention white musicians with huge platforms, this is how you be anti racist. Privilege used for good.

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Nsera

Nsera ou destination en langue bambara, est une ode aux paysages, aux peuples et aux couleurs du Mali. On découvre un monde imaginaire dans lequel se mêlent traditions et modernité, souvenirs ancestraux et idées visionnaires, couleurs vibrantes et sombres desseins. Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera feat. Damon AlbarnFatoumata

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Fatoumata Diawara Live Preview: 10/6, City Winery, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

You'd think that an album cheekily titled London Ko (a play on the Malian capital of Bamako) might evenly place Fatoumata Diawara's singing and electric guitar playing alongside her notable cast of collaborators. Yet, the singer-songwriter's fifth album (3ème Bureau/Wagram Music), her finest yet, is as personal as it is a showcase for her band and featured contemporaries. Yes, six of the album's fourteen tracks were co-produced with Damon Albarn, and Diawara's mix of falsetto vibrato and smoky baritone nestles comfortably within the confines of everyone from the Brooklyn Youth Chorus to the soulful breaths of Angie Stone. But it's Diawara's poignant diatribes and life-affirming tributes that make the album stand out.

London Ko is primarily an album of uplift. "Somaw" and "Mogokan" are sweet tributes to family and brotherhood. The former looks back at Diawara's move from Bamako to France, featuring finger-snapped percussion built around acoustic guitar arpeggios and staccato piano. The latter, which features Ghanaian rapper M. Anifest, sports hip hop rhythms and drum fills and gospel-inflected keyboards. In fact, Diawara bolsters her influences throughout the record, emphatically journeying through Black music all over the world. From the house piano of "Massa Den" and dub of "Dambe" to the West African blues of "Dakan" and the funk of "Tolon", Diawara centers the declaration to "Let us unite and be one." Perhaps most thrilling is "Blues", featuring Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, his trills dancing atop forward-charging drums.

But as celebratory as London Ko often sounds and is, it does its fair share of mourning, too. On "Sete", like on Fatou's "Boloko", Diawara decries the practice of FGM, this time atop mournful keys and bluesy guitars. The forceful "Yada" sees her proclaim her worth, perhaps in contrast to a rich man, blistering guitar solos and fried keyboards carrying her singing. These songs are reminders that, to Diawara, making music--especially as a Malian woman playing guitar--is as much a political act as an artistically fulfilling one, never taking for granted the power of her own voice.

Diawara plays tonight at City Winery. Tickets are still available at time of publication. Doors at 6:00 P.M., show at 8:00 P.M.

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Fatoumata Diawara - Nsera feat. Damon Albarn (Bambara)

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ten songs, ten people I was tagged by @sidver to put my tunes on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people

Fatoumata Diawara & Damon Albarn - Nsera

Duffy - Mercy

Glenn Fredly - Januari

Muse - Knights of Cydonia

ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me

Drab Majesty - Dot in the Sky

Petri Alanko & Martti Suosalo - Sankarin Tango

Akira Yamaoka - Theme of Laura

Snake Eater - VGL & Tia Carroll

AIGEL - Чудовише

tagging: @si-lantro , @ruelyth , @juicedeletedagainwoahshockerwow , @cryptcombat , @tolovaj

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— FIVE SONGS I ASSOCIATE WITH MY MUSES

Tagged by: @myriadxofxmuses

Tagging: @crew-from-capulet , @twistedhxart , @brooklynislandgirl , @notsoinnocentlittleangel , @pleinsdemuses , @vienrose , you

Zach

Damon Albarn - Sister Rust (muse aesthetic only)

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Pet Shop Boys - Two Divided by Zero

Yazoo - Situation

Disclosure - Magnets (A-Trak Remix) ft. Lorde

Eric

Halsey - Bells in Santa Fe (muse aesthetic only)

Miley Cyrus - WTF Do I Know (muse aesthetic only)

Fatoumata Diawara - Maya

The Doors - Love Her Madly

Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin - Diarabi

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Fatoumata Diawara - Nsera feat. Damon Albarn

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Happy Birthday Flea!!! Fun fact/refresher, depending on how insane you are about one of these men, that Flea, Damon Albarn and Tony Allen formed a jam band (Flea laughs at calling it a supergroup) for one album, both entitled Rocket Juice & The Moon.

Rocket Juice’s launch pad was the Albarn-helmed Africa Express touring collaboration; a 2008 Lagos date provided the initial connection between Flea and Allen, and sparked jam sessions with Albarn. These evolved into a full album, with guests including US soulstress Erykah Badu, Malian songbird Fatoumata Diawara, keyboardist Cheick Tidiane Seck, Ghanaian rapper Manifest and Chicago siblings Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

Flea: ‘Supergroup sounds pretty silly,’ giggles irreverent superstar and intrepid talent Flea. ‘Damon and Tony are two musicians I admired plenty before I worked with them. Damon’s an amazing musician, and his storytelling ability on a song like Poison seems to be in his blood. And Tony, man, he’s just a treasure. He’ll lay down this funky wicked groove and I just want to get into the middle of it. It’s like being freezing, then immersing yourself into a hot bath. (...) ‘The Rocket Juice album was made with no preconceived plan,’ adds Flea. ‘The playing never felt like a means to an end. We totally improvised over a few meetings, left it wild so it feels cosmic and loose. I love to just jam; my life mission is to play music in the moment.’ (...) ‘Damon’s very English, I’m from Hollywood, Tony’s from Nigeria… and our hearts are all in the same place,’ says Flea.

Damon: ‘You blend all of these things into your life; that’s the secret – otherwise you go stark raving mad,’ says Albarn. Despite his laddish Blur persona, he mostly seems happy being a driving force rather than commanding the spotlight: ‘I am part of a lot of things that are converging at the moment. On Rocket Juice, I’m just having a whale of a time in the background, playing, messing around on silly keyboards. It was an amazing meeting of minds with Tony and Flea, and most of these tracks were one-take wonders. We bounced all over the place.’ (...) projects such as Rocket Juice are as liable to draw as much ‘purist’ criticism as they are crossover praise. ‘I’ve always had an inquiring mind; music has been a constant search and battle with myself,’ says Albarn, smiling. ‘And it took me years not to take criticism negatively. It was strange at the Brits (where Blur won the Outstanding Contribution Award this year), being 17 years older than the other participants in the pageant. I remember what it was like originally, and there’s a marked change in my outlook now; over time you learn to create order, and not be afraid of chaos.’

Tony: ‘When Damon calls me, I might not always know what he’s aiming at, but I know it’s not bullshit,’ says Allen, with gruff fondness. The Afrobeat architect’s highly distinctive drum patterns open the Rocket Juice album; Allen was also part of another Albarn outfit, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, and he collaborates on Albarn's opera Dr Dee. ‘He feels like an inseparable music partner,’ he says. (Couldn't find a direct quote from Tony about Flea, but I'm sure the two got on great!)

This is wonderful! I now feel like there's a collaboration or at least friendship between most of our beloved 90s musicians, like you could pick two names at random and they'd have a project together. Creativity and talent everywhere.

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Nsera – Fatoumata Diawara feat. Damon Albarn (2022) [X]

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AHHHHHHHDKSJDKISIZUUD V I JUST READ IT AND I PHYSICALLY FUCKING CAN. NOT. DEAR GOD.

AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION YOU ABSOLUTE DEITY

also, i have a recommendation for a song?? idk if you're open for new music? it's nsera by fatoumata diawara! and embracing my indian here, aga naga by ar rahman! (and i checked out motionless in white and dude. the hardcore metal🤌)

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OHHHH THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD (also hi I see Damon Albarn on that first song, hi Damon Albarn!). The second song is gorgeous.

(Sorry for exposing you to motionless in white fgJJGJGKGHIH)

I'm always open for new music thank you for sharing it with me I adore it <3

[bunnywand]

oh huh?? damon albarn had another side project in 2012 with tony allen (who he later collabed on song machine with) called "rocket juice & the moon"

and their album also had collabs with a bunch of ppl he's collabed with on recent gorillaz albums, like fatoumata diawara and thundercat?? 😧