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Musician: Barak Schmool
Location: London
Instruments: Saxophone / Flute / Percussion
Music: African/Latin/Jazz
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 ÌýÌýListen (11'09) to to 'Waa daa daa' performed by Barak Schmool and Roots of Unity from their cd, Timeline Know Hope (F-ire, 2002)
ÌýÌýListen (2'02) to Barak Schmool talk about his music
A favourite song:
'Waa daa daa' is a song which features Nana Tsiboe, a drummer and singer from Cape Coast in Ghana. He's singing about the concerns of his community. Translated, the words say " Deception - we have been deceived. Through deception, our lands have been taken, through deception our spirits have been taken, through deception our wealth is lost".
I originally worked with Nana in a group called Roots of Unity with 3 singers, 3 drummers, 3 dancers, 3 jazz musicians. These were people from all over the world, old and young, male and female. Nana brought this song to the group.
With Timeline, a small jazz group I play in, we decided to record this track, housed within one of our pieces. We invited Nana to come with his song and play his music, which is translated through our experience and then we also invited our friends and students to come and sing. In Nana's words, the entire thing is stronger by having more people take part. He said that 34 people doing something is not the same as 35 people doing something. That extra person brings their own, valuable energy to the occasion.
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