waaaauw... sa er vi kommet til afrika. vi bor paa njawara agricultural centre i et stoevet rum paa stoerrelse med en faengselscelle og sover paa en haard madras. i nat sov jeg 14 timer saa det kan aabenbart noget :-) og saa her er stille. fuglene er det eneste man kan hoere. ikke en bil elle bus eller noget. og ikke en masse sms'er etc. det foeles i det hele taget som at vaere paa internet-afvaenning.
i gaar var vi paa en runde i byen. peter og nika har jo vaeret her foer,saa der var masser af haandtryk og gaver der skulle gives, foruden smil og kram. boernene flokkedes om os og sagde 'tubab tubab'... og vi gav em klistermaerker, kuglepenne og kladdehaefter...
og der bliver virkelig passet godt paa os. for 2 dag i streg har vi spist dejlig mad, 5 mand af det samme fad, nogle med fingrene.
i dag kom vores ven med en guitar,der manglede en streng. staalstrnge i en aaben mol tuning. og nu har vi lavet en sang paa wolof. den handler om deres te, attaya, og om at det er eftersmageen, der er bedst... saadan er det jo nogengange :-)
Om mig
- Solveig's blog about the early stages of KonoKone
- In December 2009 - January 2010 I went on a trip to Mali. The aim was to start up KonoKone, a coalition between female musicians from Mali and Denmark. Before going to Mali I had put together a line up of prolific, Danish indie musicians for the project. The first thing I did when I came to Mali was to make contact with some interesting - and rather untraditional - female artists in Mali. For the next 5-6 weeks I facilitated a number of long distance co-writes between the Danish and the Malian artists. When back in Denmark I handed out the recordings to the artists involved and let them take over from there. This was how it started. Since I have gone back to Mali once. In September 2010 some of the Malian musicians came to Denmark to participate in My World Images Festival together with their Danish colleagues. So far KonoKone has released one EP, "Hvorfor græder nattens fugle?" which roughly means "why are the birds of the night crying?". In January 2011 the Danish participants of konoKone are going to Mali for a month during which they will go on a tour and record new stuff with their Malian colleagues.
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