1958 Blick Bassy

• 1 Ngwa 04:42
• 2 Ngui Yi 03:15
• 3 Kundè 02:22
• 4 Woñi 02:57
• 5 Mpodol 03:17
• 6 Lipém 03:06
• 7 Sango Ngando 02:58
• 8 Maqui 03:52
• 9 Pochë 03:10
• 10 Bés Na Wè 03:14
• 11 Where We Go 02:29
• Total Runtime 35:22

Info for 1958

Traditionelle Musik Kameruns trifft Mississippi-Blues und erzählt poetische Geschichten aus Afrika. In einer poetischen Mischung aus traditioneller Musik seiner Heimat Kamerun und Mississippi-Blues erzählt Blick Bassy sehr persönliche Geschichten. Vertraut mit den traditionellen Bräuchen seines Volkes, den Riten und der Musik singt der Wahlfranzose in seiner Muttersprache über die Landflucht in Kamerun, von der Suche nach der eigenen afrikanischen Geschichte, seiner Kindheit und von Liebe. Sein neues Album "1958" hat einen politischen, ernsten Hintergrund: Im Jahr 1958 wurde der Unabhängigkeitskämpfer Ruben Um Nyobé von französischen Kolonialtruppen in Kamerun erschossen – sein Name durfte bis vor kurzem in der Öffentlichkeit nicht genannt werden, es drohte eine Anklage samt Gefängnisstrafe. An ihn will das neue Album erinnern: Blick Bassy zieht dabei einen Bogen zur Jetztzeit, indem verschiedene Stücke über das Kamerun von heute erzählen.

Blick Bassy, Gitarre, Gesang
Clément Petit, Gesang, Hintergrundgesang
Johan Blanc, Posaune, Keyboards, Hintergrundgesang
Arno de Casanove, Trumpete, Keyboards, Hintergrundgesang

Blick Bassy
is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter. His song Kiki from the album Ako featured as the theme song for the worldwide launch of the iPhone 6 in 2015.

Bassy's former band Macase toured Cameroon for ten years until winning the Prix Elysse Musique du Monde in 2001, which convinced Bassy to emigrate to Paris, France. After performing in small venues, he secured a recording deal for his first two albums.The first, entitled Leman, was released in 2009, and was followed two years later by Hongo Calling.

In 2015 he released the album Ako from which 15 seconds of Kiki were used in Apple's global advertising campaign for the iPhone 6. Bassy says that the album was influenced by Skip James, the American blues musician.Robin Denselow, writing in The Guardian, says: "...his new album echoes the delicacy of bossa nova along with reminders of his other influences, from African styles to the Mississippi blues of his hero Skip James. This is an easy-going but experimental set in which he plays guitar and banjo, sings in the Cameroonian language of Bassa, and is backed by the unlikely combination of cello and trombone. He starts by showing off his distinctive voice on a cool, drifting late-night ballad, but then changes direction as he swings into a breezy song that sounds like an African answer to a country-blues hoe-down, before mixing Congolese influences with impressive, bluesy guitar work. A charming, intriguing set." David Honigmann in the Financial Times describes the album's genre as manouche jazz, and describes "lubricious trombone slides" on Kiki and the "relentless Gypsy vamping" of Wap Do Wap.

He has toured globally performing at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in the Africa Utopia festival in 2015, and at WOMAD in New Zealand in 2018. He is due to play the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in July 2018.

Bassy's lyrics are in Bassa, one of 260 Cameroonian languages.

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