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Yesterday, on August 5th, during the music event “Festival Fnac
Indétendance”,
Africa Express, the musical collective led by Damon Albarn
(Blur, Gorillaz), performed during more than five hours with a lot of great
artists. I shot most of it but didn’t have enough tapes! (I missed the last songs with
everybody on stage!!!).
Damon Albarn
This big free concert (more than 5000 people were there!) took place at
the Place de l’Hotel de Ville (an historic public square in front of the mayor’s
office in the centre of Paris).
A lot of people
My buddiesAmong the artists who performed that
evening/nigh, there were
Amadou & Mariam,
Catherine Ringer (Rita
Mitsouko), Roots Manuva, Ebony Bones, Kano, Bashy, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble,
The Kooks, Miss Dynamite, Sister Fa, Speech Debelle, Konono n°1, Magic Numbers,
Rachid Taha, Patrick Wolfand (of course)
Damon Albarn.
Sister Fa and Speech Debelle
Ebony Bones and her crew (below)
MRoots Manuva (left) - Mariam and Damon (center)
Here are two videos that I’ve just edited featuring Damon Albarn, Sister
Fa, Speech Debelle and Ebony Bones (more stuff to come).
On August 3, 2009, Africa Express, in association with Puma Creative,
will release ‘
Africa Express presents…’ a CD/DVD collection of African
music.
It includes unreleased songs by
Amadou &
Mariam, Tinariwen,
Baaba Maal and Femi Kuti alongside numbers by the likes of Oumou Sangare, Tony Allen, Staff Benda Bilili, Rokia Traore and Rachid Taha. The tracks have been selected by artists such as Bjork, Franz Ferdinand, Elvis Costello, Massive Attack, VV Brown, Fatboy Slim and Damon Albarn amongst others; reflecting their interest and love of African music.
Some links:
http://www.africaexpress.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/amadouandmariam
http://www.myspace.com/ebonybones
http://www.myspace.com/sisterfa
http://www.myspace.com/speechdebellemusicFrédéric Ambroisine (Aug. 6th, 2009)
