{"id":3988,"date":"2024-02-09T17:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insta.bananierbleu.fr\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:42:06","slug":"occitan-africa-kunta-kinte-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrocaribbeanbeats.com\/en\/occitan-africa-kunta-kinte-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Occitan&rsquo; Africa &#8211; Kunta Kint\u00e9, 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83e\udd41\ud83c\udfb7\ud83c\udfba\ud83c\udfb8\ud83c\udfa4\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\udf34 Au milieu des ann\u00e9es 80, \u00e0 Montpellier, les fr\u00e8res Mbaye \u00e9cument les sc\u00e8nes locales et montent un groupe qui devient vite une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence de la world music made in Languedoc, <strong>Kunta Kint\u00e9<\/strong>. J\u2019ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu l\u2019occasion de dire combien ce terreau montpelli\u00e9rain \u00e9tait fertile. Etudiant moi-m\u00eame, j\u2019avais d\u2019ailleurs aussi pos\u00e9 mes doigts dans un groupe local, avec la complicit\u00e9 de mon premier bassiste camerounais, B\u00e9nilde Foko. Fort heureusement, et pour le bien de l\u2019humanit\u00e9, toutes les bandes de cette aventure ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truites (pas les souvenirs\u00a0!). Mais B\u00e9nilde \u00e9tait d\u00e9j\u00e0 un vrai professionnel, et justement le bassiste de Kunta Kint\u00e9, dont il partageait la rythmique avec un autre ami de l\u2019\u00e9poque, l\u2019incontournable S\u00e9ga Seck. Quarante ans plus tard, ces deux-l\u00e0 officient toujours, et c\u2019est \u00e0 chaque fois un plaisir quand on se retrouve. Le groupe emmen\u00e9 par Badara, Amadou et Meissa Mbaye enflammait les sc\u00e8nes avec un m\u00e9lange afro-pop, p\u00e9tri de mbalax, de reggae, dans la mouvance de ce que proposaient les Tour\u00e9 Kunda ou Youssou N&rsquo;dour par exemple. Kunta Kint\u00e9 a enregistr\u00e9 quelques disques, dont cet <strong>Occitan\u2019 Africa<\/strong>, paru en 1998, avec \u00e9galement Cheikh Tidiane Fall, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Dondieu Divin, et aux cuivres, un certain Franck Nicolas, arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 son tour \u00e0 Montpellier entretemps. Nostalgie, mais positive\u00a0!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Edit] C&rsquo;est avec beaucoup de tristesse que nous apprenons aujourd&rsquo;hui, 28 septembre 2024, la disparition d&rsquo;<strong>Amadou Mbaye<\/strong>. Une grande figure de la fusion afro-jazz montpelli\u00e9raine, et des souvenirs de concerts chaleureux&#8230; RIP et condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 ses proches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd41\ud83c\udfb7\ud83c\udfba\ud83c\udfb8\ud83c\udfa4\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\udf34 Au milieu des ann\u00e9es 80, \u00e0 Montpellier, les fr\u00e8res Mbaye \u00e9cument les sc\u00e8nes locales et montent un groupe qui devient vite une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence de la world music made in Languedoc, Kunta Kint\u00e9. J\u2019ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu l\u2019occasion de dire combien ce terreau montpelli\u00e9rain \u00e9tait fertile. Etudiant moi-m\u00eame, j\u2019avais d\u2019ailleurs aussi pos\u00e9 mes doigts dans un 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