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Ajoyo: Ajoyo

Read "Ajoyo" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Multi-reed player Yacine Boulares has picked up, and left behind, musical footprints literally all around the world. He was born in North Africa (Tunisia) but grew up in Paris, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and jazz performance at the National Conservatory and New School for Jazz. As a Fulbright scholar, Boulares continued his musical studies and began his professional career in New York City, where he deeply connected with Cameroonian native Jojo Kuo, Fela Kuti's drummer.

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Ajoyo: Ajoyo

Read "Ajoyo" reviewed by James Nadal


The best recorded music is sometimes the result of life altering circumstances stimulating the creative impulses in receptive musicians, which then take the idea into the studio. By chance, multi-reed player and composer Yacine Boulares was turned on to the infectious rhythms of Cameroon, leading to the record Ajoyo, a delightful hybrid of expressive vocals highlighted by regional bikutsi and makossa tempos, with a strong dose of afro-beat thrown in for good measure.Surrounding himself with an international cast ...

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Ajoyo

Ropeadope
2015

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