Led by composer/arranger and leading UK-based Djembeplayer, Yahael Camara Onono and featuring members ofbands including Kokoroko and SEED Ensemble, BalimayaProject intently synthesizes and bridge London's bustlingjazz circuit with traditional repertoire and folklore of theMandé peoples of West Africa, and in turn connect themusic's contemporary and ancestral forebears.
Their album Wolo So arrives after five years in the making,yet its roots chart a young percussionist forging a deepermusical identity from even further back. Like Fela's Egypt80 or Sun Ra's Arkestra before them, Balimaya Project isa big band unlike any other. Made up of members fromacross the UK's landscape of Afrobeats and jazz to UKRap, the idea was to create a fuller sound with manyinstruments that are used for traditional music.
Camara Onono's vision on this project has been to bringtogether and make emotionally available to each other,young black men in the diaspora and celebrate them in away that doesn't happen enough. He has brought togetherpeople who understand the music of black Britain and ofthe African continent.
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