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Gokh-Bi
from Senegal performs at the National Geographic All Roads
Film Festival, October 21 in Los Angeles, California, and
October 29 and 30 at National Geographic headquarters in Washington,
D.C.
This
visit highlights the world premiere of their music video Mission
of Music, which has been selected to appear in the All Roads
Film Festival in both Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California.
A
ROUND WORLD has also released Gokh-Bi's new Mission of Music
EP as a preview of tracks from the band's upcoming 2005 full-length
CD release.
Stay
tuned for the Gokh-Bi 2004/2005 Mission of Music tour dates.
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Gokh-Bi
System, Mission of Music EP
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Preview
of the Upcoming Full Album Release.
Mission of Music download available at www.calabashmusic.com.
Tracks:
1. Uncle Mamadou's Offering
2. Mission of Music
3. People Are Talking
4. Mama Afrika
5. Tewal (Stand For) Hip Hop
6. A.I.D.S. Finale
Band Members:
Backa Niang - Vocals, Percussion
Diasse Pouye - MC
Mamadou Ndiaye - MC
Sana Ndiaye - Vocal, Ekonting
and Bathie Pouye - Manager
All
Tracks Written by Gokh-Bi System and Olivier Glissant
All Arrangements by Olivier Glissant
Additional
Musicians:
Olivier Glissant - Keyboards, Drum Programming on all tracks
Robert Gomez: Electric Guitar on Mission of Music
Jacque Peretti - Electric Guitar on Mama Afrika
Muhamadou Salieu Suso: Kora on Mama Afrika
Executive
Producer - Doug Deutsch
Music Producer - Olivier Glissant
Recorded by Olivier Glissant at Blacksalt Studios in Queens,
New York and Blacksalt (Mobile) Studios in Dakar, Senegal
Mixed by Hector Castillo at Blacksalt Studios
Mastered by Lorenz Vauck at XARC Mastering, Germany
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A
Round World meets Gokh-Bi System
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While
assembling artists for A ROUND WORLD, Doug Deutsch was introduced
to Gokh-Bi System by Toni Blackman, A ROUND WORLD's Musical
Ambassador of the U.S.
October
2002
Our journey began with Gokh-Bi, A ROUND WORLD's Musical Ambassadors
from Senegal, arriving at A ROUND WORLD headquarters in New
York City. We instantly became brothers and went on to record
our first three songs with world class musician, composer and
producer Olivier Glissant at Blacksalt
Studios in Queens, New York and film two music videos including
Mission of Music and Mama Afrika with award winning Film Director
and Producer Joshua Atesh Litle of JFILMIC.
Mission will appear in Mr. Litle's current film project "The
Furious Forces of Rhymes".
October
2003
A ROUND WORLD and Blacksalt Studios went mobile and together
journeyed to Dakar, Senegal to record an additional eight tracks
for a full album release.
October
2004
Gokh-Bi performs at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival
on October 21 in Los Angeles, California, and on October 29
and 30 at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C.
in support of their world premiere music video Mission of Music.
Mission, an official selection in the music video category of
the 2004 National Geographic All Roads Film Festival will also
premier nationally via satellite on LINK TV which is available
on channel 375 on DirectTV satellite TV and also channel 9410
on Echostar Communications Corporation's DISH® Network satellite
TV service.
Mission of Music is now available for download at www.calabashmusic.com.
We
are also pleased to announce the release of their new EP, which
is a preview of their upcoming 2005 CD release.
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Gokh-Bi
System History
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Gokh-Bi
which means "Neighborhood", was formed in 1994 in
Pikine, Guinaw Rail (the other side of the tracks), an impoverished
suburb of Dakar, Senegal. The members of the band represent
three different ethnic groups, the Jola, the Serer and the Wolof
peoples of Senegal. Friends and brothers living in the ghetto,
they discovered hip-hop and felt a kinship to it's themes of
poverty, inequality and injustice.
Started
as a rap group backed by synthetic beats, the band's music has
evolved into a spirited blend of traditional Senegal music,
hip-hop, funk and soul with themes centering on peace, love
and justice.
Since
their first U.S. visit in 1999, this Senegalese hip-hop crew
has exposed tens of thousands of American school children to
African music and dance through performances and workshops.
They have also performed live with Angelique Kidjo, Damien Marley,
Michael Franti (Spearhead), Culture, Toni Blackman, The Lost
Poets, and Toots & the Maytals, among others.
Gokh-Bi
will also represent A ROUND WORLD as Musical Ambassadors from
Senegal in the soon to be released "Tune Travels"
program for kids.
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Sample
Tracks in MP3
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>Gokh-Bi
(Senegal)
>>MP3: Mama
Afrika (1.1mb)
>>MP3: Mission
of Music (1.3mb)
Gokh-Bi ("The Neighborhood") adds hip-hop to a Senegalese
continuum. Their lively music sets positive-thinking raps
(in English as well as Senegalese languages) to handmade music:
percussion, singing and riffs plucked on the ekonting, a Senegalese
lute. "Hip-hop takes a joyful, respectful place alongside
traditionalism." John Paereles, NY Times.
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