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Gangbé Brass Band
Togbé
$17.99
Seven horn players and two percussionists from Cotonou (Bénin) take the music of Dahomey (the name of Benin until 1975) and west Africa and create a joyous noise.
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Read the band's official press release for more info
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"With these men, originally from Benin, rhythm seems as vital as a mobile phone does to the young Parisian Homo erectus. The Gangbe Brass Band has been raised on tradition reflected in their costumes and musical pulsations. The rhythms which emanate from the various percussion instruments are mantric, the horns and the voices a chiaroscuro of illumination on the corporal and acoustic vibrations." - La Nouvelle République
"When all eight Beninese musicians from the Gangbe Brass Band made their musical entrance dressed in their shimmering embroidered boubous and wearing their tarbooshoes or fez tuba, sax, trumpets, percussion and drums immediately drew the spectators into a riotous show mixing music, song and dance and original compositions and where an astonishing fusion of jazz and traditional beninese music operates." - P.-F. C. L ’Yonne REPUBLICAINE |
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