Adama Dicko & Seno Blues

Adama Dicko & Seno Blues
African Connection - album cover
Adama Dicko
  • country:Austria
  • region:Central Europe
  • style(s):World Fusion, Fulani
  • label:redpmusic
  • type:Band
  • gender:male
  • artist posted by:redpmusic

Line up

  • Adama Dicko (vocal, n'goni)
  • Assane Fall (talking drum, percussion)
  • Boulem Diamani (guitars)
  • Emanuel Kopf (bass guitar)
  • Georg (drums)
  • Michael Auinger (soprano & tenor sax)

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Adama Dicko & Seno Blues is a group founded in Vienna. They have been playing together for a couple of years and learned a lot from each other due to to their different ethnical and musical backgrounds. Seno Blues presents their idea of world music: in their point of view, world music is not restrictively traditional music form third world countries. Despite modern music genres being more clear-cut and diferentiated, many famous African artists' music was never called by its right name by western recipients. The term "world music" is still too broad, impresciseand often misused. West-Africa has a very rich background of musical styles. But those names are rarely seen on the covers of "world music artists". Therefore, instead of representing a traditional style, Adama Dicko & Seno Blues understand world music as a meeting of different cultural backgrounds - as a combination of ideas and thus a specific form of intercultural creativity. Their music is is made by people from West-Africa, North-Africa and Europe. Instruments which are associated with different styles and cultures come together. Starting with patterns played on the traditional N'goni, they build up their songs, gradually adding various elements, tone coulours and ideas for arrangement.
Not only is Adama Dicko, who was born in Burkina Faso and is currently living in Vienna, a singer and N'Goni player but also he builds his own instruments. The N'Goni, or more precisely camels N'Goni, is a string instrument from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali), which is mainly played by the Griots, the singers and storytellers of West Africa. After practicing many N’Goni playing techniques, Adama created his own style between blues and reggae which allows him to sing and talk about his journeys and experiences. Political and social issues are always topic in his lyrics. He is creating full sounds that range from impulsive to energetic to a meditative simplicity. For Adama music is a direct way to name things in a harmonious way. He appreciates the variety and also the traditional significance of his music.