In the Mandinka language, SUBA means “sunrise”, an image referring to the hope following the darkness in which the pandemic has plunged us, thanks to which the Senegalese singer and master of the kora Seckou Keita met again, and Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa, four years after their first meeting in the studio (Transparent Water). And it is, again, exquisite. A friendly conversation between two virtuosos, the rain of notes of the kora and the harmonic impulses of Mandingo music falling on the playing, sometimes flowing (on KoraSon, decorated with the cello of the Brazilian Jaques Morelenbaum), sometimes more alert (on Maam and the magnificent Allah Leno), Afro-Cuban influences from Sosa. The collaboration of the Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles is just as precious, the timbres and the envelopes of his instruments perfectly weld the African, Latin, jazz and contemporary influences of the original compositions of the duo. Tender, sublime, textured, SUBA comforts.
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