Momo Wandel Soumah: 1926-2003

by Pier Marton | Oct 26, 2012 | Afri, Death, Music, Native

The Guinean singer, composer, and alto saxophonist: Jazz was born with you, but I brought it home, in Africa, because that is where its source sprang forth from/Le jazz est né chez vous, mais, moi je l’ai ramené chez moi, en Afrique, car c’est de là qu’a jailli sa source.

Tamo

Toko

Felenko Yéfé

As the doctor in L’Enfant Noir

A summary/Un témoignage

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus