Daniel Dzidzonu
Parc de Bruxelles / Parc Royal
Place des Palais
Sep 22, 2019
3:00 PM GMT+2
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AB40 KICK OFF: GLOBAL STREET SOUNDS, ce sont les musiques du monde qui, dès l’après-midi, envahissent le quartier de l’AB. Cette année ce ne sera pas dans la Rue des Pierres en raison des travaux, mais au Boulevard Anspach devant l'entrée de l’AB. Global Street Sounds est encore et toujours un moment de fête gratuit et bigarré, avec cette fois La Yegros, Daniel Dzidzonu, SUSOBRINO et tant d’autres. Voir ci-dessous pour plus d’infos sur ces formations sympas et chaud bouillantes !
Il ne vous restera plus qu’à enfourcher votre bicyclette, car le dimanche 22 septembre sera à nouveau un Dimanche sans voiture !
BOULEVARD ANSPACH:
15:00 DANIEL DZIDZONU
Un sacré trompettiste qui plonge ses racines au Togo et qui en est fier : il n’hésite pas à se coiffer d’un bonnet Mobutu ou à lancer, non sans humour, le slogan « Make Africa Great Again ». Ce musicien nous propose un afrobeat contagieux sans triche ni frime, dans le sillage de ses héros Fela Kuti et Tony Allen, Miriam Makeba, ainsi que, évidemment, Hugh Masekela, Salif Keita, Mory Kanté… Il vient enfin de sortir son premier album à part entière. Nous attendons beaucoup de monde devant et sur la scène.
17:00 LA YEGROS
Place à un cocktail revigorant de folktronica et de « nu cumbia » (prononcez nu à l’anglaise) ! L’Argentine Mariana alias La Yegros nous propose une musique ultradansante et hyperamusante, basée sur la cumbia, le chamamé et autres sonorités folk injectées d’électro, d’où le nom de folktronica. Elle vient de terminer son nouveau disque Suelta (délivrance). Et vous la connaissez sûrement du coup de cœur de l’été « Viene De Mi ».
AB CLUB:
19:00 SUSOBRINO au club dans le cadre de la « Rebel Up ! label night »
SUSOBRINO est l’alter ego du producteur et collectionneur d’instruments Bart Van Obbergen (24 ans). Ses racines boliviennes lui ont donné la passion des sonorités exotiques, notamment des percussions sud-américaines traditionnelles. En saupoudrant ses field recordings et d’autres musiques ethniques de quelques ingrédients numériques, il concocte une bande-son énergique et rythmique.
20:30 NURI, deuxième « Rebel Upstart » à l’AB Club, encore et toujours gratuit
En collaboration avec le label tunisien Shouka, Nuri a sorti Drup, un LP en hommage à son patrimoine tunisien, entrelardé de voix et de percussions provenant de l’ensemble du continent africain, le tout servi dans un mix numérique qui se veut un « amalgame d’hier et d’aujourd’hui ».
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Daniel Dzidzonu Biography
Daniel Dzidzonu was born into the sounds of West African percussions and gospel.
His father managed a brass band that performed at church services, weddings, funerals and on the streets of the capital (Lome). That exposure led him to a fascination with brass instruments from a very young age.
One day while one of his father’s horn players was cleaning his trumpet, the little Daniel was allowed to have a go at the instrument, which was a huge priviledge. The horn player and his father were amazed by the sound that came out of the four year old’s blowing, quickly realizing that he had a natural affinity with the instrument. His father gave him a bugle for his 5th birthday and that’s when his journey of blowing in the air begun, imitating traditional Apkesse Bands, whereby voices accompany Ewe drumming which is punctuated with bugle interlude solos. He joined a brass band in Lome at the age of eight.
However, his real dream was to play the trumpet. Even though the members of his father’s band offered advice on the basics of horn playing, he was not allowed to touch or play with their instruments. He had to wait for many years before he got his first trumpet. A church member who taught classical trumpet and music theory taught him how to read sheet music, with only the church hymn books as tools. The rest relied on learning melodies by heart. As a pastime, he would memorise the melodies of songs that he heard on the radio and TV, and then seek for new or different ways of playing them, unknowingly honing his talent and improvisation skills.
At 12 years old, he was already taking music seriously. He discovered jazz music through listening to his father’s Louis Armstrong cassettes. His solo rendition of ‘When the saints go marching in’ which was a favourite at weddings, is what got him noticed. His style of playing was unique to him and his sound was distinctively different to that of his elders. This earned him the role of the bandleader in his father’s brass band at 16, when he started composing his own music, drawing inspiration from blues, gospel and African traditional music.
In 2009 he moved to Belgium, where he studied jazz at the Music Academy of Evere’s jazz section where he was awarded with the prestigious Prix d’Amis for his unique sound and outstanding end of year performance.
He recorded his first CD “Ewe Blue” that same year and since played with various jazz ensembles, funk outfits and also joined the World Squad European tour in 2011, playing alongside Fela Kuti’s legendary guitar player, Oghene Kologbo.
Alongside the trumpet, his first love, Daniel also plays the bass, guitar and percussions.
Read MoreHis father managed a brass band that performed at church services, weddings, funerals and on the streets of the capital (Lome). That exposure led him to a fascination with brass instruments from a very young age.
One day while one of his father’s horn players was cleaning his trumpet, the little Daniel was allowed to have a go at the instrument, which was a huge priviledge. The horn player and his father were amazed by the sound that came out of the four year old’s blowing, quickly realizing that he had a natural affinity with the instrument. His father gave him a bugle for his 5th birthday and that’s when his journey of blowing in the air begun, imitating traditional Apkesse Bands, whereby voices accompany Ewe drumming which is punctuated with bugle interlude solos. He joined a brass band in Lome at the age of eight.
However, his real dream was to play the trumpet. Even though the members of his father’s band offered advice on the basics of horn playing, he was not allowed to touch or play with their instruments. He had to wait for many years before he got his first trumpet. A church member who taught classical trumpet and music theory taught him how to read sheet music, with only the church hymn books as tools. The rest relied on learning melodies by heart. As a pastime, he would memorise the melodies of songs that he heard on the radio and TV, and then seek for new or different ways of playing them, unknowingly honing his talent and improvisation skills.
At 12 years old, he was already taking music seriously. He discovered jazz music through listening to his father’s Louis Armstrong cassettes. His solo rendition of ‘When the saints go marching in’ which was a favourite at weddings, is what got him noticed. His style of playing was unique to him and his sound was distinctively different to that of his elders. This earned him the role of the bandleader in his father’s brass band at 16, when he started composing his own music, drawing inspiration from blues, gospel and African traditional music.
In 2009 he moved to Belgium, where he studied jazz at the Music Academy of Evere’s jazz section where he was awarded with the prestigious Prix d’Amis for his unique sound and outstanding end of year performance.
He recorded his first CD “Ewe Blue” that same year and since played with various jazz ensembles, funk outfits and also joined the World Squad European tour in 2011, playing alongside Fela Kuti’s legendary guitar player, Oghene Kologbo.
Alongside the trumpet, his first love, Daniel also plays the bass, guitar and percussions.
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