Ibrahima Camara-Lead Vocals, Percussion
Kine Camara - Dancer
Carl Holm - Persussion
Chris Icasiano - Trap Drum Set
Don Keller - Rhythm Guitar
Ben Krulewitch- Keyboard
Daniel Miller - Solo Guitar/Vocals
Souleymane N'diaye - Percussion
Marty Ofsowitz - Guitar (Rhythm & Solo)
Birch Pereira - Bass
Chris Poage - Horns
Original compositions, by Ibrahima Camara (Lead vocals, sabar, djembe, tama) of Senegalese pop music with traditional West African roots, spiced with the sounds of Reggae, Latin and Soukous.
African rhythm... the fuel that drives Ibrahima Camara's band, formerly known as Ibrahima's World Beat. His sound has it's origins in the polyrhythmic djimbe and sabar music of Senegal. Ibrahima's group musters the visceral thrill of a big African band, with adrenaline percussions and colorful, flailing dance moves. His tunes anchor dizzying Senegalese cross-rhythms in hard funk and one-drop reggae...
He developed his sound in the classic African pop mode, by starting with tradition. Ibrahima sees drumming as the essence of his music, and of world beat generally. For him, African rhythms overshadow the borrowings of Arabic tonality, Cuban stylings and American and French technology. Describing the parts that typically make up his complex grooves, he says, "They are drum parts. Each part of the rhythm is a melody on guitar, keyboard, bass and horns." His songs string divergent ideas together into organic perccursions that evolove continually and never look back......His show is a well-honed labor of love, and plainly amied to make dancing feet happy.
Banning Eyre
"You put that beat in there to make sure people can really hear the music", Senegalese drummer Ibrahima Camara explains. "So they can really understand it and dance to it."
"Every music you've had, we've had it in Africa," he explained. "James Brown, all the rest.
American music has been a big influence..."
"America sent a message to us, and we listened...for many years. Now we're sending a message back. You give, we give. That's what music is about."
