Jean-François Cadet receives Cheick Tidiane Seck for his album “Kelena Fôly”, which means in Bambara, “to express oneself alone in music”. For his fourth solo disc, the monument of Mandinka music offers us moving compositions, only for voice and piano.
He has played with very big names in jazz and pop and shared his keyboard art across the oceans. He is deeply jazz but also deeply Malian. It is even a monument of Mandinka music that Jean-François Cadet has received, to present an album full of sensitive strings.
First his vocal chords with a groovy timbre impregnated with soul. But also those of his piano, whose white and black keys activated by his expressive touch successively pay homage to his Mandinka roots, to New York jazz, or even to the champions of blackness like Aimé Cesaire or Birago Diop.
” Kelena Foly » the new album of Cheick Tidiane Seckis available at Komos.