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For biographical information on many of the artists represented on the CD Dance To Your Shadow, follow their web links on the CD Page. The following tradition bearers also represent a lifelong link to the music of their culture, their bios are presented here:
Featured on tracks 10 and 14:
Woe Ensemble (pronounced 'Way' Ensemble)
Kokou Soglo Katamani is a singer and percussionist from Ghana and Togo, West Africa. A professional drummer in the Ewe tradition, over the past 30 years Kokou has studied, performed, and taught traditional and modern African music, taking him throughout Nigeria, the capital city, Lagos, and Fela Kuti's Kalakuta Republic. Kokou is also a teacher and works and performs with master drummer, CK Ladzekpo, in the West African Music and Dance Ensemble.
Gameli K. Ladzekpo, originally from Ghana, West Africa, is the nephew of master drummer CK Ladzekpo. He brings his experience in Ewe music to many groups, including the Woe Ensemble, the afrobeat band Albino!, and the West African Music and Dance Ensemble.
Trevino Leon of Cuba, has travelled extensively as a professional drummer in the Ewe tradition for the past 27 years. He also specializes in Afro-Cuban drumming and music, and performs with the West African Music and Dance Ensemble. Travenio is fluent in Efik, a Nigerian dialect, and Lucumi, a Cuban form of Nigerian. He teaches Ghanaian, Benin, Nigerian and Cuban African drum theory, history and dance workshops around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Featured on track 25:
Kyoko Fujita is a native of Kobe, Japan, where she has devoted much of her life to art, music and teaching. After singing with the Kobe Philharmonic, Kyoko recently moved to the United States to continue her career as a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a rich background in Japanese folk song and a lovely, delicate voice, Kyoko is a wonderful teacher, singer and tradition bearer.
Featured on tracks 18 thru 23:
Bo Lueng is a performer of traditional music, dance and song from Thailand. She works with a group of dancers and musicians based at Wat Mongkolratanaram, the Thai Cultural Center in Berkeley, California. Together they present the ancient graceful movement and beautiful traditional sounds of Thai classical music and dance to the public.
11 Cultures, 9 Languages, 18 Singers, 1 Extraordinary Album
Dance To Your Shadow
celebrates Mouth Music around the world
Mouth Music is a kind of singing found in every culture-- rhythmic, traditional, a cappella songs used for work, play, sadness, celebration or for dancing without instruments.
Pam Swan celebrates that common thread in this extraordinary collection of Mouth Music, as she sings with tradition bearers from Scotland, Ireland, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Japan, Tuva, Arctic Canada, Appalachia and the Georgia Sea Islands.
Joining Pam are: Christine Primrose, Peggy Seeger, Laurie Lewis, Paul Pena, Shay & Michael Black, Madeleine Allakariallak, Bo Lueng, Wendell Brooks, Kokou Katamani, Gameli Ladzekpo, Trevino Leon, Kyoko Fujita, Julia Chigamba and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.
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