Drummer Mokhtar Samba is an insatiable traveler. He nourishes his music from encounters from the four corners of the world, and from the richness of the cultures he encounters. His new album “Safar” is the fruit of these mixes.
At first, he was a man in the shadows. His drums have long accompanied the greatest like Salif Keita, Ousmane Kouyaté, Youssou NDour, Carlos Santana, Check Tidiane Seck. But one day, Mokhtar Samba published a first album under his name, “ Dounia “. It was in 2005.
Since then, he has taken quite a few paths of encounter which have allowed him to nourish his music. His new album is both choral and rainbow. In 16 tracks, it mixes Western harmonies, African rhythms – notably Mandinka –, arabesques of Bedouin songs and these improvisations and this undeniably jazzy swing. A mixed music that this artist of Senegalese-Moroccan origin has in his DNA.
“ Safar », the new album of Mokhtar Samba is available from Grand Central Artists/The Orchards.
On the menu of Thatfé Gourmand
- Lisa Giroldini saw the film “Goodbye Julia” by Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani, winner of the Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival. The story of a friendship between a rich Muslim Sudanese woman from the North and a Christian Sudanese woman from the South who was destitute after the death of her husband.
- Emma Garboud saw the documentary broadcast on Arte “ Eddie Murphy, the black king of Hollywood », first African-American comic actor elevated to the rank of global super star.
- Muriel Maalouf went to Zingaro, the famous wooden marquee located within the walls of Fort d’Aubervilliers, to see Bartabas’ new equestrian creation ” Persian women »