When the World Music Festival (MMF) started in 1999, the world seemed to extend only to France – where it came from the Syrian Abed Azrié – with the presence of the jazzman Sonny Fortune to seem above all an attempt to add mileage the ambition of the poster.
More than half of the issue was then in charge of Portuguese artists and would be of little surprise that the initiative of Sines Chamber invent another festival (at a time when each municipality discovered this format a form of local promotion often without criterion) lost the freshness and disappear in half a dozen years. Instead, the FMM has grown thanks to a knowledgeable programming and bet repeatedly make a port of Sines with astonishing ability to take short trips around the world to ride the music.
In 2015, the its 17th edition, taking place between 17 and 25 July and close to 50 concerts spread over Porto Covo and Sines, the FMM appears to have stabilized at a hearing between 80 000 and 100 000 viewers, figure repeatedly in the journal choices Songlines as one of the 25 festivals of world music’s most important international calendar and manages the feat of the historic Malian Salif Keita’s debut longer be a rarity in the field of African music legends ever trod the festival stage . The program kicks off this Friday in Porto Covo, with Janita Salomé concerts, Forabandit (Occitania / Turkey / Lebanon) and Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band (Finland), transferring on Monday to Sines.
The emphasis on discovery has been, in fact, a constant and one of the reasons the FMM implementation as biggest event in world music in Portugal in Europe. If the return of Toumani Diabaté (Saturday, 25, in duo with his son Sidiki), the Yat-Kha (Band Tuva region, one of the cult names in the circuit of world music, 25), Indian Niladri Kumar (24) or the Nigerian Del Sosimi (22) deepen the connection already established with these first-line names in the coming days we will witness the long-awaited performances of Orlando Julius (25) and Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (24), but also some of the most important recent phenomena of world music, cases of Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux, the Malian rockers Songhoy Blues and Togolese funk Vaudou Game (all on Thursday, 23).
sing the voodoo culture
Vaudou Game is the name of the project created by Peter Solo in 2012, after emigrated to Lyon, France, and realized that their culture of origin, voodoo (voodoo), enjoyed a bad reputation in Europe. “The voodoo here is seen as something evil, the evil, satanic,” he complains in an interview with Publico. “But that’s not voodoo. The voodoo is love, peace, of harmony with nature. This evil thing was invented by Hollywood movies. And that’s why I did this project to try to put things in place. Left Togo to show my culture to the world. “
” All these things the sacrifices, killing cocks and thus serve only to honor nature, “he explains. The rituals and ceremonies performed in their region of Togo have, according to the musician, the sole intention of Nature to thank the fact that provide food and resources necessary to human survival. That’s what Peter Solo sings the themes Apiafo , the collective Vaudou Game debut album, and it was this same explanation that needed to provide the French musicians who enlisted to play your music, based on the tradition of Songs the voodoo ceremonies.
Vaudou game does not end, however, the interpretation of that tradition. In each of the themes Apiafo is impossible not to hear Solo singing as if possessed by James Brown. “James Brown has an energy that seems to energy voodoo” compares Solo. “He goes into a trance with his music and this trance funk is just like the one I see in my country.” It is this magnetic trance we hear, for example, the single Pas Content , where Peter Solo gives voice to discontent that confesses, is not really yours. “It’s the voodoo that is not happy, is Nature that is not happy with the way humans treat, to destroy, to consume today. And I believe that one day will demonstrate this even, that his great displeasure. “
Until then, Peter Solo continue to sing as a way to disseminate the true voodoo and, in the middle, fulfill their own rituals to not further provoke the anger of the earth.
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