Yohann Le Ferrand is a Breton musician. He went to Africa and in particular to Mali to meet artists whose works he admired. He drew a mini-album entitled “Yeko” which tells in music the portrait of these musicians and singers from West Africa. A disc imagined between traditional and current influences.
In the booklet that accompanies the album, each page has its own colors, in tune with each track on the disc. Words and faces that draw the mixed face resulting from meeting and sharing.
In fact, it is in a mini-gallery of portraits that Yohann Le Ferrand lets us in, by the grace of the voice and the instruments.
Musical portraits that this composer and arranger has concocted with six artists from West Africa, the Burkinabe Kandy Guira and five Malian artists of different styles and generations: Mamani Keita, Koko Dembélé and his reggae imprint, the rapper Myimo, Salimata Tina Traoré and the late Khaïra Arby.
The mini-album “Yeko” is available at Inouie Distribution.
To follow the “Yeko” project, go to the Yohann Le Ferrand website by following the link here.
On the menu of this Café Gourmand:
- Amelie Beaucour presents the program for the France-Portugal 2022 season in Paris.
- Marjorie Bertin went to attend the ballet “D’un rêve” by Salia Sanou at the Théâtre du Châtelet
- Muriel Maalouf introduces us to the book “Bleu nuit” by Dima Abdallah published by Sabine Wespieser.