The unstoppable triumph and consolidation of the ethnic music has filled our countries with different Festivals, record labels, and publications that spread a real content of traditional and folk music. In the same time the vitality and effervescence proved by the techno music have passed its enthusiasm to the other musical styles, including rock music, pop and jazz. It seemed logic that would come a time in which the electronic dancing will reach with the different expressions that can be embraced in ethnic or world music. And to this interesting convergence meeting, that is giving us many good feelings and surprises, we gave the title of Global Dance. We prepared a special night in which participate dj´s, plastic artists and four of the most influential bands of this new concept of musical sonority, that will play in this unforgettable party. During more than four hours we will feel this musical and cultural racial mix, as an exactly x-ray of the new human period we are just starting to live.

Frédéric Galliano

DJ since 1992, producer since 1996 on F Communications and creator of his own label since 1998, Galliano always lived in Valence in the south of France. With his two first albums " Espaces Baroques " and " Lives Infinis " released on F Communications, he turned his search to the links between electronic music, jazz, African culture and different creative concepts. Since then, Galliano has a very personal work attitude, far away from any fashion trends. With references such different as, art, philosophy, and many foreign cultures, Galliano stands on a singular position among the DJ's producer scene.

He makes his music original, with no esthetical references, with a real intellectual curiosity which leads him to gather, in the same releases: the brothers Belmondo with Nahawa Doumbia; the accoustimatician, Louis 2000 with Julien Loureau; and many others musicians encountered during some travels. Studio work and tour experience with his band " Frederic Galliano Electronic Sextet ", have lead him on many scenes all over the world, during three years. He searching the creation act where the arduous quest and new musical propositions are the driving force of his action.

His label, Frikyiwa, testifies his will of the African music renewal. Started in 1998, he's still working on his new album " Frederic Galliano presents the African Divas ". The release of this project, at the end of 2001, will implement the gathering of 50 guest from jazz scene, and almost, others met during travels in Africa. Centered on the African's divas duo, recently accompanied by a more dancing programmation, this new project, which is already a live performance " USA tour 2000 ", is an other atypical issue for Galliano.

FRIKYIWA

The Frikyiwa project all started when French producer Frédéric Galliano had a brilliant idea. Galliano is best known for his own explorations into the musical ground between jazz, techno and tribal Africa, on Paris' hottest electronic label - Laurent Garnier's F Communications. His idea was simply a logical expansion of his own work - invite a cutting-edge selection of his contemporaries in the underground DJ/producer world to add Western/modern club beats to the music of West African stars like Lobi Traoré, Ibrahim Hamma Dicko and Nahawa Doumbia. Galliano gave his handpicked cast of producers classic recordings by Malian singers and turned them loose in studios full of today's latest technology. The result was a stunning series of import only 12" singles, now compiled into two excellent compilations of remixes in a variety of styles - acid jazz, deep house, dub, breakbeat and more.

The Frikyiwa project is a family reunion of sorts, as the insistent grooves of modern dance music, which began in Detroit and New York City, meet their musical ancestors in the deeply rooted, earthy rhythms of West African musical traditions. Those traditions - transformed into the rhythms of reggae, salsa, dub, techno and hip-hop - have returned to Africa to re-influence the music of the Motherland. Frikyiwa Collection 1 garnered its share of rave reviews, and has now given birth to Frikyiwa Collection 2. The list of re-mixers for this set includes Galliano himself, as well as well known Matador recording act Pole and producers Catalyst, Llorca, DJ Spider, I. G. Culture and Natty Bass Sound System. These producer/DJs again succeed in following Galliano's original aesthetic of "giving African music the opportunity to exist within the context of electronic music and clubs." Galliano says, "These recordings all possess this musicality, this warmth, this heritage, this way of doing things - the 'African way'." The remixes, which come from London, Paris and Berlin, point to a new direction in world music.

 

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