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Du 10 au 13 octobre, la Fiesta des Suds 2024 annonce la couleur et joue cartes sur table pour sa célébration populaire des chaudes nuits automnales : figures majeures, jokers de luxe et atouts cœurs, la 33ème édition du rendez-vous marseillais met à l’affiche des découvertes brûlantes, des voix iconiques, des collectifs bondissants et des artistes totémiques sur l’esplanade toujours magique du J4. Sous les étoiles, face à la mer !
Programmation jeudi :
- MC SOLAAR, l’icône poétique du rap français
- AYỌ, la voix gracieuse de la soul-folk lumineuse
- SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80, les transes dynamites du digne héritier de l’afrobeat
- ORANGE BLOSSOM, les volutes orientales de l’ethno-trip hop orchestral
- SAMI GALBI, les hybridations exaltées de l’électro-raï & du club-chaâbi
Programmation vendredi :
- OLIVIA RUIZ, les inspirations latinos d’une chanteuse pop électro
- FLAVIA COELHO, nouvel album pour la plus solaire des artistes brésiliennes
- ZOUFRIS MARACAS, l’irrésistible collectif de la chanson française métissée
- ANA TIJOUX, les chants ardents et militants du hip hop franco-chilien
Programmation samedi :
- DANAKIL, le groupe phare du reggae métissé, made in France
- FATOUMATA DIAWARA , le joyau afro-pop moderne de la nouvelle diva malienne
- MERYL, la rappeuse créole aux mélodies de diamant
- NUBIYAN TWIST, les pistes fertiles des alchimistes du jazz-funk british
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Shosh
April 10th 2024
It was amazing, a beautiful and fun show. She brought some serious and heavy topics but then lifted our spirits with dancing and singing and got the audience on their feet! Thank you Fatou can’t wait to see you perform again
San Francisco, CA@Herbst Theatre
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FATOUMATA DIAWARA Biography
She may be one of the most outstanding voices in world music, but Fatoumata Diawara remains unclassifiable: Afropop, Afrofolk, Afrofuturism... Somewhere between tradition and modernity, guitar in hand, she brings wassoulou rhythms and West African vocal techniques to meet contemporary sounds. A singer, composer, musician and actor, as one of Africa’s leading female voices, she never ceases to surprise: Herbie Hancock, Roberto Fonseca, -M-, Angélique Kidjo, Disclosure, Lauryn Hill; Abderrahmane Sissako and Philippe Godeau for cinema and theatre…
Nsera, the first track from her forthcoming album, is co-written and co-produced by one of the central figures of British pop music, Damon Albarn, an artist with a long history of fusion and collaboration with African musicians. Singing and playing keyboards, the Gorillaz and Blur frontman infuses a touch of melancholy and modernity into the song’s Mandinka sound. This gave rise to a neologism, invented by Fatou for the occasion: “Londonko”.
Nsera will be released on 15 November 2023 and will be transformed into images by Gregory Ohrel (Orelsan, Jain, Residente). An exploration into the heart of African diversity that Fatoumata Diawara previously represented in the “Mali-ko” project (bringing together around forty artists, from all regions of Mali, on a song for peace).
Now Londonko is the name of one imagined continent, bringing the two continents together.
For Fatou, the end of the journey is a return to her home country, which she is still eagerly exploring: her land, her culture, her Destination, “Nsera”. We know that on her album Fenfo, she had “something to say”; on this track it is an invocation for all of Africa to manifest. Africa has a lot to give.
A (re)call for awareness of the true richness of a people who have so much to teach the rest of the world.
Bamako versus Londonko, a story to follow…. and to share.
Read MoreNsera, the first track from her forthcoming album, is co-written and co-produced by one of the central figures of British pop music, Damon Albarn, an artist with a long history of fusion and collaboration with African musicians. Singing and playing keyboards, the Gorillaz and Blur frontman infuses a touch of melancholy and modernity into the song’s Mandinka sound. This gave rise to a neologism, invented by Fatou for the occasion: “Londonko”.
Nsera will be released on 15 November 2023 and will be transformed into images by Gregory Ohrel (Orelsan, Jain, Residente). An exploration into the heart of African diversity that Fatoumata Diawara previously represented in the “Mali-ko” project (bringing together around forty artists, from all regions of Mali, on a song for peace).
Now Londonko is the name of one imagined continent, bringing the two continents together.
For Fatou, the end of the journey is a return to her home country, which she is still eagerly exploring: her land, her culture, her Destination, “Nsera”. We know that on her album Fenfo, she had “something to say”; on this track it is an invocation for all of Africa to manifest. Africa has a lot to give.
A (re)call for awareness of the true richness of a people who have so much to teach the rest of the world.
Bamako versus Londonko, a story to follow…. and to share.
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