Bebel Diarra, Mama Sissoko and el Cuban from Super Biton de Ségou at Mieruba Art Center
Bebel Diarra, Mama Sissoko and el Cuban from Super Biton de Ségou at Mieruba Art Center
The Lost Maestros rehearsal sessions at Mieruba Art Center
Adama Namakoro Fomba and Askia Modibo at Mieruba Art Center
Trico Boy live at Blonba, Bamako
Kaniba Oule Kouyaté, Madou Diabaté and Mory Kouyaté during The Lost Maestros Vol 2 residency
Labouzou rehearsal session at Lac de Lassa, Bamako
Kokanko Sata, Benogo Diakité, Kassim Sidibé and Drissa Bagayogo during The Lost Maestros Vol 2 residency
Labouzou studio session at Kore Studio, Ségou
Pacific Live Sessions at Mieruba Art Center
El Hadji from Tatrite Sahara at Mieruba Art Center
Ahmed Fofana and Idrissa Diabaté at Studio Kore, Ségou
''...The bands shared this experience wholeheartedly and the final sound flows as if arising from afar. On est ensemble! We’re Together!''
In 2021 Sahel Roots began the "On est ensemble" project in collaboration with Electric Circus, an Italian-based funk band. The project aimed to encounter the two realities in the name of brotherhood besides borders and distance. In 2019 the Italian band reached out to Sahel Roots, who at the time were inflaming club stages in Bamako and Ségou...
"..Solomane Doumbia owes part of his inspiration to Tidiani Koné and this album, this tribute, retraces the route of Afrobeat and brings it back to his other homeland, Mali."
It was in January 2020 that Solomane Doumbia composed and recorded the tracks for the album "Ségou to Lagos" in Bamako. The recordings took place at night, Solo would take his guitar and start playing riffs. Then he would go to the computer to compose the beats that would have been interpreted and enriched by Malian musicians directed by Solo.
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