Mértola: Concert Bombino, Omri, Speed Caravan Trio and DuOud the Islamic Festival.
Mértola is counting down for the 10th edition of the Islamic Festival, which is made of 16 a 19 May, in the historic town center. In addition to the souk - street market.
The Municipality of Mértola, organizer, bet on a varied program, especially the Mediterranean influenced music, with concerts already scheduled to Bombino, Omri, Speed Caravan Trio e DuOud.
Bombino (Niger) was the first name confirmed for the edition 2019. The musician returns to Mértola (where I had already worked in 2013) to present their latest album Deran, named for the GRAMMIES® in 2018.
Natural Agadez, Niger, Bombino belongs to the Tuareg tribe Ifoghas, a nomadic Berber people of the descending. Your music drinks of their rich cultural heritage, which is allowed to rock heavily infected by, under the inspiration of guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Mark Knopfler, among others.
"Tempest", released 18 May, presents 10 issues, maturity and rare power that make Bombino back to the source of everything that made the guitarist and singer who is now.
Omri (Portugal) It is one of the most original projects reinvention of traditional Portuguese music. To reinvent the tradition, nothing better than to bring the show itself the true stakeholders of our culture; musicians and sounds from all over the country to play and sing as if they were part of the same universe. Not in the flesh but in sound and image, collections with processed and manipulated in real time, providing the basis for the musical composition and improvisation Vasco Ribeiro Couples.
Omri of, above all, remix, the culture of the century, when mixing a single spectacle musical practices already forgotten, making them permeable and accessible to the culture of our day, i.e, synchronizing and music forms of our rural tradition with the language of urban culture.
Mehdi Haddab is simultaneously recognized as a virtuoso of the acoustic oud, as for their pioneering projects, incurring the rock scene with the electric oud. The project Speed Caravan Trio (France, Algeria, Tunisia) It is accompanied by the French Pascal Teillet on bass and by Skander Besbes Tunisian on guitar and electronic music.
With your albums, “Kalshnik Love” e “Big Blue Desert”, Mehdi and his Speed Caravan created a "caravan of contemporary music" - despite moving the speed of sound!
The Speed Caravan creates songs with references that stretch from rock bands to the Algerian folklore, Arab-Andalusian, and influences of Balkan and Gypsy music, a glorious collision of sounds and global styles. Para nomear Mehdi Now, as the Jimi Hendrix of the electric oud would, of course, a cliché hopeless. But it is not so far from the truth!
DuOud (Algeria, Tunisia) it is, as the name suggests, um duo old, Arabic lute, formed by two of its most innovative practitioners. Composed Tunisian sleeping, Jean-Pierre Smadja, also known as Algeria and the Smadj, Medhi Now, outstanding leader of Speed Caravan. They joined the effervescent musical scene in Paris of the 90 and, after a few years of stopping, resurface with the same desire to cross the North African heritage with odernas technologies. classical Arab songs and metallic environments, Acoustic purity moments and moments of electronic saturation.
After appearances on other projects, the "enfants terribles" of the oud are back, on tour to launch new EP in March this year and preparing new album.
All information on the Islamic Festival Mértola are available in www.festivalislamicodemertola.com
