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Release Date: 2022Labels: Coast to Coast, Dakar Sound
"The SBD Reframed StoryThe friendship between the famous Guinean guitarist Sekou Bembeya Diabate aka Diamond Fingers, worldwide known for his Bembeya Jazz Orchestra, and Ted Jaspers, owner of the African music label Dakar Sound, started over thirty years ago.
To celebrate this they decided to work on a special album that puts Bembeya's guitarplaying in a new and contemporary musical perspective, as it would be quite different than before.
To start the project, Bembeya recorded his sologuitar with Gregor Brvar at the Dakar Sound Studio. Hans Breukel was asked to write and produce the tracks around the sologuitar, based on the new perspective Ted and Bembeya were looking for.
This album shows a new approach for Bembeya's wonderful and lyrical playing. One could sayy that with the compositions and the production, Bembeya's guitar is 'Reframed' in an extraordinary setting. To that end some tracks are partially connected. This album establishes Bembeya once more as one of the greatest african guitarists."
Dear Zou: We miss you, Good Friend!