N’famady Kouyaté (Guinea / UK)

• country:United Kingdom
• label:not signed
• type:Band
• artist posted by:ZME

Line up

• Alex Tabero  (drums)
• Morgan Rickman (lead guitar)
• N’famady Kouyatè  (vocals, balafon, electric guitar)
• Timothy Boomer  (keys)
• Will Davies  (bass)

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N’famady Kouyaté is a young master musician from Conakry in Guinea, based in Cardiff, Wales since 2019. His primary instrument is the balafon, part of a long family heritage which he learned from his parents at an early age. His arrangements are a fusion of Mandingue African and Western European jazz, pop, indie and funk influences provided by an ever-evolving collective of musicians. Within two years of arriving in Wales he was recording his first EP, Aros I Fi Yna, in the legendary Rockfield Studios, with a full band line up, including guest appearances from iconic Welsh songsmith Gruff Rhys, 9 Bach's Lisa Jên Brown, and Kliph Scurlock of The Flaming Lips. Since then, he has toured extensively around the UK including festivals such as Green Man, Cambridge Folk, Belfast Mela and Celtic Connections.