Famoudou Don Moye, John Tchicai, Hartmut Geerken's lyrics & chords

The members of this particular improvising trio include Famadou Don Moye, a neo-tribalist percussionist (famous for his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago); John Tchicai, a half-Congolese Danish reedist who emigrated to the U.S. in the '60s (notable for his work with the New York Art Quartet); and Hartmut Geerken, a multi-instrumentalist with a truly global concept of sound (and whose book, motte motte motte, describes the experience documented in aural form on The African Tapes). Before their first stop in Freetown, these three musicians ha...read more