FANTASIA

Lydia Domancich (keyboards)
Aïssata Kouyaté (voice)
Pierre Marcault (percussion)

Gimini Music
réf : GM 1014

IN THE PRESS

"Peculiar yet coherent - such is AndoumA's music... An unusual line-up of acoustic piano, African percussion and voice (singing in the Malinké language), exploring untrodden paths, alternating duo and trio combinations and moving from poetic written passages to long improvised commentary. A raw, fundamentally organic sound, avoiding consensual treatments... A new musical form, unnamed as yet but one that feeds on fancy." (Francisco Cruz • Jazzman)

"Here is the second album by this trio that seems to make light of stylistic frontiers with a disarming innocence. And yet, bringing together and mixing contemporary classical music with West African polyrhythms and vocal traditions seemed an unlikely venture at first... This goes to show how conceited it is to try too hard to relate to an aesthetic concept what is first and foremost a unique musical world - which, by virtue of its very existence, needs no "ethnomusicological" justification, though it may seem in line with the current "world music" craze"...
(Stéphane Fougère • Traverses)

... "We are here confronted with the work of poets whose sole concern is to make us more aware of the beauty of this world."... (Cézam)