BELESIA (vinyl)

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FEATURING GUESTS: VINCENT SEGAL, NAÏSSAM JALAL, LOY EHRLICH, BALLAKÉ SISSOKO. He brings together the South American and African continents, imagining the divine language of a new musical Pangaea. A treat for the mind and ears of the most discerning listeners." Ignacio Maria Gomez seeks out extraordinary beings. A young virtuoso artist, poet and enchanting singer, Ignacio is above all a nomad open to life, traversing cultures and traditions to create deeply cosmic music, as well as a bridge between the South American and African continents.Ignacio Maria Gomez, whose first album will be released in the autumn (his Paris concert in March was cancelled due to health measures), is the outsider of this selection: A young Latin griot born in Argentina, who discovered ancestral Guinean music in... Mexico, and has even been teaching it since the age of 15! Does Mandingo blood flow in his veins? To find out, the precocious musician travelled around the Afro-descendant communities of South America, from Guatemala (the Garifunas) to Colombia (the Balantes).These multiple identity wanderings nourished his imagination, leading to this revealed language in which he sings, evoking both Amerindian shamanic rituals and Mandingo praises in Malinké. Accompanied by his guitar, he thus fantasizes about a matriarchal Guinea, open to bossa and chacarera, to Amerindian or Caribbean folklore. Mandingo influences surface in the sweetness of his vocal intonations, the melodic strings of his guitar, the serene strength of his liberated songs, which feature, on the album, notably Vincent Segal, Naïssam Jalal and Ballaké Sissoko. " --- Anne Berthod, TÉLÉRAMA ---.