At Gibanja festival Farida Amadou presents a brand new solo creation - an exploration of improvised textures built around West African rhythm samples, melodic fragments, and voice. Known for her deep-rooted energy in noise and free improvisation, Amadou opens a new chapter, weaving ancestral echoes with radical sonic freedom.
Farida Amadou (BE) is a musician based in Brussels, Belgium. The electric bass is her main instrument. Soon Farida started to dive into improvisation music, got rapidly identified, and collaborated with musicians like Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ches Smith, Mette Rasmussen, Dave Rempis, Chris Corsano, Andy Moor, Terrie Ex, Pat Thomas, Lukas Koenig among other occasional features such as Jerusalem in My Heart and Moor Mother. If there's one musician in the last decade that you may hear in wildly diverse musical contexts it is Belgian electric bassist and sound sculptor Farida Amadou. Not only can you enjoy the unerringly skillful command she has over her instrument but also the transformative power to reinterpret and expand her material in spontaneous and unconventional ways.
