Mosi Conde & Kaira Kora Afrika

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PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 8.30pm.

The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of seats. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, so if you’d like a seat, please ensure you arrive early.

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The fabulous Mosi Conde is back with an intriguing evening's entertainment. The first set will showcase Mosi's outstanding solo prowess and compositions with a tantalising preview of his forthcoming solo album. The second set will raise the roof with Mosi Conde and his full band, Kaira Kora Afrika.

Immensely skilled and talented, Mosi Conde is from Guinea Conakry's leading Griot family whose members are key to most of West Africa's vital traditional and contemporary related music scene. Mory Kante is amongst his closest maternal uncles and called Mosi to join him as part of Baaba Maal's Africa Utopia finale concert at the Royal Festival Hall last year. He represented Guinea in the Photographers' Gallery World in London Olympiad photographic installation and is often called by the BBC World Service to expound on his culture and to play.

Mosi Conde's compositions are steeped in tradition with a global sonic awareness, growing from his fierce love and awareness of his original culture and reflecting his strong involvement and commitment as a Londoner. Master of every instrument he learnt as a young child, he is a kora virtuoso, a searingly beautiful guitar player, vividly dextrous balafonist, an intricate and dynamic djembe proponent and a mellifluous singer. Whether solo or leading his matchless Kaira Kora Afrika crew Mosi is an engaging and popular performer delivering crisp exciting shows with the crowds more than willing to join in call and response and dance. Equally the more meditational pieces hold an audience spellbound.

Mosi Conde's debut album Kaira Kora Afrika garnered appreciative reviews, widespread radio coverage including BBC R3, Resonance FM, Colourful and international airplay. His second album is in progress and will be launched mid 2013.

“Utterly mesmorising and spellbinding, totally infectious! Truly great music” Rainlore’s World of Music;
“A mighty release ... great material, a pleasure to listen to” Russ Jones Hackney GlobeTrotter;
“... soundtrack of the summer” Flying Carpet "