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| SAKINA ABDOU UPCOMING CONCERTS Based in Lille, France, saxophonist Sakina Abdou explores free improvisation and broadly experimental contemporary music with the likes of Eve Risser's Red Desert Orchestra, Raymond Boni, Satoko Fujii, and the daring experimental collective, Muzzix. On Goodbye Ground, her debut album for the New York label Relative Pitch Records, her multifaceted identity really shines through: here is a powerful sound, both precise and row, sometimes caustic, sometimes full of grace and quietude. Sakina will be on Tour in Europe and Canada in the upcoming months. GOODBYE GROUND TOUR SPRING // SUMMER 2024 April 27 - Torino Jazz Festival - Turin (IT) - SOLD OUT April 28 - You Must Believe In Spring Festival - Mantua (IT) May 09 - Festival Bordures - Langon (FR) May 17 - FIMAV - Victoriaville (CAN) June 22 - Something Else! - Hamilton (CAN) June 23 - TONE Festival - Toronto (CAN) June 25 - Ottawa Jazz Festival - Ottawa (CAN) June 28 - COASTAL Jazz Festival - Vancuver (CAN) July 07 - Jazz à Vienne - Vienne (FR) "Goodbye Ground" is the concert form that follows the release of her eponymous debut solo album. Signed to the New York label "Relative Pitch Records", its release was hailed by the press, and received the support of Face Foundations for an international tour, which is still going strong today (USA, CANADA, ITALY, ...). After this almost "Handmade" album recorded by the musician alone in several "passings" in a specially dedicated room in her home for two months, the saxophonist Sakina Abdou now offers us a live form that delivers a naked, raw saxophone, without effects or tricks, favoring the intimacy of an acoustic space and inviting us to settle in as close as possible to the instrument and the human being, to find ourselves captured in a close-up, vibrant living space. A saxophone solo that summons up the multiplicity of musical influences that have nurtured the artist through her rich and eclectic musical career (jazz, experimental, contemporary, classical, early music, etc.), and in which she anchors herself to reformulate her own language and make her voice heard. The story she tells speaks of anchoring, fragility and strength. The soil that connects where we go from where we come. The earth that binds as much as it separates. The ground on which we lean, and which can sometimes break. write your comments about the article :: © 2024 Jazz News :: home page |