Shinzo wo Sasageyo

Lokua Kanza - Lokua Kanza (1993) {Ye Wo Music 014 775-2}
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© 1993 Ye Wo Music / Universal | 014 775-2
World Music / Pop / African / Soft Rock / Worldbeat

Free electron of African music, the Zairian Lokua Kanza, before recording this album in 1993, already had a great musical experience. From 1980, he was the guitarist of a great Zairian star: Queen Abeti. In 1982, he made a stopover in Ivory Coast before arriving in France in 1984 to go to his jazz ranges at C.I.M, the famous Parisian school. Then the meetings accumulate, Ray Lema (with whom he sings until 1988), Papa Wemba, Sixun (he is a backing singer on the group's albums), Claude Nougaro, and finally, in 1990, he becomes the singer of Manu Dibango until 1993 and this eponymous debut album.

In earlier times, adaptations and rearrangements of their own works or those of others formed an integral part of the daily lives of musicians and composers. So-called ‘historically informed’ performance practice, which has developed out of a strictly historical perspective on past eras of music, long left this way of treating an existing composition almost totally unexplored. Today, however, it is enjoying a renaissance and is part of a musician’s training. The idea of arranging Bach’s works is a natural one, since the composer himself was an inveterate transcriber. Most of the programme recorded here consists of solo keyboard works rescored for a chamber formation – in other words, the performers have chosen an approach that is the contrary of Bach’s usual practice. A fascination for the timbral possibilities of the viola da gamba trio and a shared passion for Bach’s music prompted the Cellini Consort to create this original and personal programme.