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ABU & GARY

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  • Genre: Acoustic / Afro-beat / Roots Music

    Location Dakar, Rome, & Berkeley, Un

    Profile Views: 42628

    Last Login: 8/8/2012

    Member Since 3/6/2007

    Website www.primogaleria.com/basscultureproductions.com

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    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    ...... ....↑Click The Pic↑...... WORLD BLUES, featuring world class jazz guitarist Abu Djigo and singer/guitarist Gary Nelson, is a World Acoustic cd, recorded in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa and in California. GUITARS- Abu Djigo is a world musician in the truest sense of the term, based in Italy, the USA, and West Africa. Born in Senegal into the Fulani tribe, he is adept at jazz, blues, and many African styles. Abu tours Europe regularly and travels periodically to Brazil and India to play with musicians there. He co-wrote several songs on the WORLD BLUES album with Deborah Barer and Gary Nelson. VOCALS, GUITARS - Gary Nelson has performed with Grammy nominee Judy Mowatt of the Wailers and I Threes, Joe Higgs (mentor of Bob Marley), David Paich (founder of Toto), Hux Brown (Toots & the Maytals), Chepito Areas (Santana), Fully Fullwood, Tony Chin, Tenor Grant, and Earl Zero (Soul Syndicate), Zulu Spear, Barry Melton (Country Joe & the Fish), and Rankin' Scroo. Gary plays bass and sings harmony for alternative/neo-soul/reggae group BASS CULTURE and for reggae singer/songwriter Cosmo. ..........↑Click The Pic↑........ ..For an account of Abu & Gary's recording sessions in Senegal, click ....HERE....... ....'Shadow' - © 2002 - Abu Djigo, 'Miracle Quest' - © 2002 - Abu Djigo, Deborah Barer, Gary Nelson. This site is dedicated to JOHN DARIUS SHERMAN, ISSA CAMARA, and ALI FARKA TOURE.

  • Members

    .... .. ..Baboulaye Cissokho.. .. The ..WORLD BLUES BAND.. - KORA (21 string gourd harp) - Baboulaye Cissokho (featured on Grammy award winning cd 'Egypt' by Youssou N'Dour on Nonesuch Records and on the dvd 'Roll Back Malaria'), YORUBA VOCALS - Kola Adesokan, ACOUSTIC BASS GUITAR - Ben Isaacs - Slaptones & many more, RAP - Taiye Robinson, KAMALE NGONI (Malian harp), CALABASSE, VOCALS - Mamadou Sidibe (Toumani Diabate, Oumou Sangare, Ramata Diakite, Markus James, Solo Cissokho), TAMBIN (Fulani bamboo flute) - Issa Camara, 5 STRING NGONI (goat skin lute/banjo) - Omar Sall, 8 STRING NGONI - Mamadou Sakho, TAMANI, DJEMBE, CALABASSE, VOCALS - Samba Guisse (Senegal) - Baab Maal & many more, CONGAS, TABLA, PERCUSSION - Waahid

  • Influences

    Mbalax, Jazz, Blues, Brazilian, Wassoulou, Reggae, Hip Hop

  • Sounds Like

    A fresh acoustic blend, West African instruments with guitars & vocals .. ..

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↑Click The Pic↑
WORLD BLUES, featuring world class jazz guitarist Abu Djigo and singer/guitarist Gary Nelson, is a World Acoustic cd, recorded in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa and in California. GUITARS- Abu Djigo is a world musician in the truest sense of the term, based in Italy, the USA, and West Africa. Born in Senegal into the Fulani tribe, he is adept at jazz, blues, and many African styles. Abu tours Europe regularly and travels periodically to Brazil and India to play with musicians there. He co-wrote several songs on the WORLD BLUES album with Deborah Barer and Gary Nelson. VOCALS, GUITARS - Gary Nelson has performed with Grammy nominee Judy Mowatt of the Wailers and I Threes, Joe Higgs (mentor of Bob Marley), David Paich (founder of Toto), Hux Brown (Toots & the Maytals), Chepito Areas (Santana), Fully Fullwood, Tony Chin, Tenor Grant, and Earl Zero (Soul Syndicate), Zulu Spear, Barry Melton (Country Joe & the Fish), and Rankin' Scroo. Gary plays bass and sings harmony for alternative/neo-soul/reggae group BASS CULTURE and for reggae singer/songwriter Cosmo.

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For an account of Abu & Gary's recording sessions in Senegal, click ..HERE...



'Shadow' - © 2002 - Abu Djigo, 'Miracle Quest' - © 2002 - Abu Djigo, Deborah Barer, Gary Nelson. This site is dedicated to JOHN DARIUS SHERMAN, ISSA CAMARA, and ALI FARKA TOURE.

Member Since:

March 06, 2007

Members:


Baboulaye Cissokho
The ..WORLD BLUES BAND.. - KORA (21 string gourd harp) - Baboulaye Cissokho (featured on Grammy award winning cd 'Egypt' by Youssou N'Dour on Nonesuch Records and on the dvd 'Roll Back Malaria'), YORUBA VOCALS - Kola Adesokan, BASS VIOL - Patrick McKenna (Henry Kaiser, Harvey Mandel), RAP - Taiye Robinson, KAMELENGONI (Malian hunter’s harp) - Mamadou Sidibe (Toumani Diabate, Oumou Sangare, Ramata Diakite, Markus James, Solo Cissokho), Dianka Cissokho (National Ballet of Senegal), CALABASSE (gourd percussion) - Djiby Diallo, TAMBIN (Fulani bamboo flute) - Issa Camara, 5 STRING NGONI (goat skin lute/banjo) - Omar Sall, 8 STRING NGONI - Mamadou Sakho, DJEMBE, CONGAS, TABLA, PERCUSSION - Abdul Waheed

Influences:

Mbalax, Jazz, Blues, Brazilian, Wassoulou, Reggae, Hip Hop

Sounds Like:

A fresh acoustic blend, West African & North Indian instruments with guitars & vocals

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