ITA:

Celebriamo insieme un’enciclopedia vivente della musica africana, Ebo Taylor salirà sul palco con la sua Family Band, non mancare!

Nella stessa sera 𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗡 𝗚𝗨̈𝗡, IL MAGO DEL GELATO live e AFTERSHOW con DEENA ABDELWAHED

Le sonorità più autentiche del Ghana hanno trovato una nuova spinta propulsiva grazie a Ebo Taylor: oltre sessant’anni di carriera, partiti da una profonda conoscenza della musica tradizionale e proseguiti all’insegna di una costante contaminazione con jazz, funk e soul. Una fusione pionieristica tra i generi che Taylor condivideva con l’amico e collaboratore Fela Kuti e che ha permesso a tutto il mondo di conoscere e amare quello che è poi stato definito afrobeat. Portato alla ribalta negli ultimi anni grazie a etichette lungimiranti e iconiche come Strut Records, Jazz is Dead, Mr. Bongo, Ebo Taylor continua a trasmettere l’eredità della sua terra alle giovani generazioni di musicisti, con un’energia e una carica indistruttibili.

Acquista i biglietti giornalieri o risparmia con l’abbonamento 4 giorni ➝ https://link.dice.fm/festivalle2024

ENG:

Taylor was born in 1936 on Ghana’s Cape Coast, where he still lives, in Saltpond City. Around 90 road-miles west of Accra, Cape Coast is home to a string of fishing villages where traditional Ghanaian music continues to be part of daily life and where Taylor grew up listening to the roots highlife that has always been at the heart of his style.

Tayor came of age during the golden years of highlife, an era dominated by the pioneering saxophonist and trumpeter ET Mensah and his band The Tempos. After leaving college, Taylor joined the Stargazers, a highlife band led by saxophonist Teddy Osei and drummer Sol Amarfio, who were among the founding members of the hugely successful British-based Afro-rock band, Osibisa. When Osei and Amarfio broke up the Stargazers to form the Comets, Taylor played with, and arranged for, a succession of highlife bands on the Cape Coast and in Accra.

From 1962 to 1965, Taylor lived in London, where he studied at the Eric Gilder School Of Music. In 1965 he returned to Ghana, where he set up the New Broadway Dance Band, leaving them in 1970 to form the Blue Monks. Both bands, at various times, included the singer Pat Thomas, another alumnus of the Stargazers, who was soon to find fame across West Africa with his own band, the Sweet Beans. Taylor and Thomas have since frequently recorded together. In the early 1970s, Taylor also became the in-house guitarist, arranger and producer for Dick Essilfie-Bondziea’s prolific and influential Essiebons label.