Dawda Jobarteh and Stefan Pasborg have performed as a duo for 4 years at many venues and festivals in Europe and Africa. A duo which is an unique meeting between two charismatic gentlemen from two different music cultures, and from two different continents ! A melting-pot of styles mixed together into an output based on mutual love for strong rhythmical shapes, beautiful melodies and the pure energy in music !
Now the two musicians have teamed up with Danish keyboard-wizard Morten Schantz for a brand new trio-constellation!

''Dawda Jobarteh and Stefan Pasborg's Duo is unique on more than one level...Duo is an album that is beyond genre and at times quite far-reaching. The emotionally and electrically charged cover pieces are aggressive, shifting and challenging as they deconstruct sound and create an organic alternative to conventional expectations. The more customary pieces still manage to merge African tradition, world-beat percussion and unusual instrumentati...

Dawda Jobarteh and Stefan Pasborg have performed as a duo for 4 years at many venues and festivals in Europe and Africa. A duo which is an unique meeting between two charismatic gentlemen from two different music cultures, and from two different continents ! A melting-pot of styles mixed together into an output based on mutual love for strong rhythmical shapes, beautiful melodies and the pure energy in music !
Now the two musicians have teamed up with Danish keyboard-wizard Morten Schantz for a brand new trio-constellation!

''Dawda Jobarteh and Stefan Pasborg's Duo is unique on more than one level...Duo is an album that is beyond genre and at times quite far-reaching. The emotionally and electrically charged cover pieces are aggressive, shifting and challenging as they deconstruct sound and create an organic alternative to conventional expectations. The more customary pieces still manage to merge African tradition, world-beat percussion and unusual instrumentation to produce a fundamentally innovative and expressively stimulating sound’’ - All About Jazz, USA.

***** ''Charles Mingus' “Better Get Hit in Your Soul” or Don Cherry's “Mopti” never sounded so much charged with infectious-intense, driving dance rhythm. Jobarteh sound on both pieces as a proficient guitarist coming from the school of Sonny Sharrock, adding to the kora distortion and fuzzy effects, while Pasborg plays with his usual powerful manner and the two sound as a single massive group’’ - The Free Jazz Collective, USA

****** ''If you are experiencing now or read on the cover that the duo of two exclusively of percussion and kora (West African harp bridge) is, you are probably deterred - be - or at least a little disinterested. But that would be very unfortunate, because the music has to offer this exciting CD, you will be able to introduce barely adequate’’ - Nordische Klang, Germany
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