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Even their earliest demos already hint at the conception of a visionary new genre mix: Together, Herting and Samory Seck play themselves ever closer toward an eclectic cocktail of Senegalese traditionals, Disco, African- and Kraut-Jazz. These early jams are refined and arranged for ensemble by Herting. In August of 2022, Griotoubab record their first EP featuring no less than 11 guest musicians in front of a live audience at producer Ralf Kemper’s Riverside Studios in Cologne. In these recordings, Griotoubab skilfully fuse the trance-inducing rhythms of the Griot with choir chants, passionate Jazz soli, and riveting vocal improvisations, conjuring up memories of African Jazz greats such as Mulatu Astatke and Francis Bebey, Canadian Afro-Beat ensemble The Souljazz Orchestra, or German Krautrock pioneers CAN.
Mike Herting(born 1954 in Cologne) is a German Jazz pianist, producer, and composer living in Bornheim. After his graduation from Cologne’s Academy for Music and Dance, he participated in countless projects, working, among others, with US saxophone player Charlie Mariano and producing world hit “New York – Rio – Tokyo” with Trio Rio. Since 1998, Herting has been active as the musical conductor, arranger, and composer for the WDR Big Band in Cologne. He is currently touring as a pianist together with renowned German singer Wolfgang Niedecken. Over the course of his career, Herting continuously seeks out the meeting and symbiosis of western and non-western music. For example as part of the German-Indian year in cooperation with the Karnataka College of Percussion and the German Federal Jazz Orchestra – a project after whose completion he founds the GlobalMusicOrchestra – or as an artist in residence at the Goethe-Institute in West Africa in 2012.
Pape Samory Seck(born in 1977) comes from a Senegalese Griot family and has been living as a percussionist in Bonn since 1997. Among the countless concerts he has given in his life, he has played shows with the German Federal Jazz Orchestra, the Hamid Baroudi Band at a gala concert for Nelson Mandela, or at the world expo in Shanghai, as well as touring East Asia together with Mike Herting’s Sai Symphony in 2013. Since 2017, he has been teaching at the Pop Academy Mannheim and since 2018 at the Academy for Music in Detmold. After “Le Deggo” (2001) and ”African Melody” (2017), the year 2022 saw the release of his third studio album, “Baobab.”
Tracklist:
- Kaye
- Salam Aleikum
- Mambambe
- Djombodon
- Tous
Further information:
Mike Herting – Website: http://www.mikeherting.de/
Mike Herting – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mikeherting8501/videos
Mike Herting – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyGlobalMusicOrchestra
Mike Herting – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike.herting/
