Touki
Jamboree, WC1X 9HH , [Venue Details]A Friday night of West African music, including coastal African sounds and rhythms and cross-cultural fusions with the fantastic Touki.
Comprising of Amadou Diagne and Cory Seznec, Touki’s new LP ‘Plastic Man’, recorded at the legendary Real World Studios, focuses on climate change, environmental activism and spiritual matters. Drawing together West African fables, personal stories and the social, economic and political challenges facing both developing and Western countries and Western ones, this is music that asks ecological, spiritual, and political questions.
Amadou Diagne has centuries of West African music at his fingertips, while Cory Seznec is a musical wanderer and uncertified ethnomusicologist. Their band name, Touki, means “journey” in Wolof, Diagne’s mother tongue. Born into a griot family of percussionists and praise singers in Dakar, Diagne is not your ordinary griot. A self-taught kora player (he was prohibited from studying in Senegal as he did not descend from a lineage of kora players) and guitarist, he has developed a signature style to accompany his powerhouse voice, also drawing on his skills as a percussionist. His music has been featured in Songlines, BBC 3 Late Junction and fRoots.
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Min: £8.00
Max: £15.00
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Performer name: Touki
Age restriction: 18+
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A Friday night of West African music, including coastal African sounds and rhythms and cross-cultural fusions with the fantastic Touki.
Comprising of Amadou Diagne and Cory Seznec, Touki’s new LP ‘Plastic Man’, recorded at the legendary Real World Studios, focuses on climate change, environmental activism and spiritual matters. Drawing together West African fables, personal stories and the social, economic and political challenges facing both developing and Western countries and Western ones, this is music that asks ecological, spiritual, and political questions.
Amadou Diagne has centuries of West African music at his fingertips, while Cory Seznec is a musical wanderer and uncertified ethnomusicologist. Their band name, Touki, means “journey” in Wolof, Diagne’s mother tongue. Born into a griot family of percussionists and praise singers in Dakar, Diagne is not your ordinary griot. A self-taught kora player (he was prohibited from studying in Senegal as he did not descend from a lineage of kora players) and guitarist, he has developed a signature style to accompany his powerhouse voice, also drawing on his skills as a percussionist. His music has been featured in Songlines, BBC 3 Late Junction and fRoots.
Admission
Min: £8.00
Max: £15.00
Concessions: Please click here for more info
Performer name: Touki
Age restriction: 18+
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