LINGO SEINI ET SON GROUPE - musique hauka LP Experimental Each song is a fresh

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“Coiste Bodhar” buttresses the album’s cinematic undercurrent across nine minutes of instrumental grandeur as affecting as the touchingly raw electric piano and voice duet of the album’s final minutes

Travis Weller

Sven-Åke Johansson is one of the style-defining drummers of the German free jazz era of the 60s and 70s

in Vancouver on the UNCEDED and ancestral lands of the Musqueam

LINGO SEINI ET SON GROUPE - musique hauka LP Experimental Each song is a freshOne of the first full length recordings of Hauka ritual music. Praise songs and sacred incantations to the spirits to inhabit the body. Call and response chants, the pluck of a monochord lute and relentless pounding percussion combine in a dizzying nonstop session. The Hauka movement started nearly a century ago and has persisted on the fringes of Nigerien society. Documented in the 1955 Jean Rouch film Les maitres fous, the Hauka are a pantheon on