Raymond Doumbé, the groove of Africa

Raymond Doumbe the groove of Africa

He is a musician among many others and a little more than that. Discreetly involved, the kind to keep between his jacks and his picks for 30 years an issue of the French newspaper devoted to the release of Nelson Mandela.

Often between two rehearsals (because between two concerts), Raymond Doumbe sleeps with his bass from his native Cameroon. Since the cabarets of the Belle Epoque, since his years of musical cauldron where he will have met Salif Keïta, Mory Kanté, Bobby Few, Miriam Makeba and Manu Dibango. In short, a page of musical history has just entered the ESM studio with this question: does makossa still macerate at your fingertips? Reply with hidden paradisehis first album…

The musical choices of Raymond Doumbé

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