Dou - 1977 - Deïdo

Dou

1977

Deïdo

01. Ngosso Biko 3:12

02. Epis 6:04

03. Petepied 10:05

04. Sa Sainteté Eugène 6:04

05. Hot Dance 4:58

06. Ballade En Bleu 8:18

07. This Is Our Music 5:17

Bass, Balafon, Tuba, Horn, Alto Saxophone, Vocals – Dou Kaya

Drums, Bugle, Flute, Percussion, Vocals – Jean-Claude Broche

Guitar, Trumpet, Saxophone, Percussion – José Palmer

Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute, Trumpet, Vocals, Balafon – Sulliman Hakim

Trombone, Bugle, Tuba, Saxophone, Percussion, Vocals – Alfonse Leboucher

Recorded at studio Cibernis.

We continue with Dou Kaya who is also a great scholar, professor of Egyptology. Here is his first album "Deïdo" which was also released by the same publisher "Corelia" and under the same conditions as "Conscientiousness", but with a staff a little less substantial and known, at least by amateurs.

This first essay was given remarkable encouragement by obtaining the Grand Prix International du Disc Académie Charles Cros in 1977. The distinction is signified on the cover of the album by a prestigious badge on which also appears the mention "Grand prix du CD". ".

We find musicians who, for some, will also be present on the second album, Dou Kya (lead vocal, bass, percussions, balafon, tuba), José Palmer (guitar), Jean-Claude Broche (drums, percussions, vocal), Sulliman Hakim (alto sax, soprano and balafon, vocal) and Alphonse Leboucher (Trombone, tuba, sax, vocal).

Frankly we are not disappointed, the approach is always very improvised and, even if we do not fly into fabulous technical feats, the music is superb, crossed by a concern for improvisations, by the voices on the first title, free music on the second, percussions on the third and improvisations around the double bass and percussion on the fourth, the first side is extremely pleasant.

The second also, divided into three pieces that develop between free and experimentation, first the magnificent Hot dance, then Ballade en bleu, hot, colorful and bucolic and This is Our Music whose title evokes Ornette Coleman and which moves forward, seems he, entirely improvised.

Sure, they had the eye, but especially the ear, that year at the academy!