From September 05 to 09: Residence of Mangane at the Jean Gagnant Cultural Center with the start of his Creation "Zoom Zemmatt", which will be presented in concert on November 21, 2022, still at the CCM J.Gagnant as part of the 17th Festival Eclats D' Email Jazz Edition. At the end of this concert, the entire Mangane group will then enter the studio (OUÏ DIRE) for the recording of “Zoom Zemmatt” to be released on Laborie Jazz in September 2023.
It's been several years since the Label Laborie Jazz became aware of the talent of Mangane, an extraordinary voice where tonality and accent take us on board immediately, in Africa certainly, but well beyond. A voice that creates in our mind a setting of dreams, a space for play, inner wisdom, a territory of smiles. A few collaborations led us to share his presence on stage from Solo to Quintet, but we felt that this treasure of sensations was not fully accomplished, or rather fulfilled. The idea was to share with Mangane, this observation was the trigger and made it possible from the beginning of the year 2021 to open the horizon of a strong and essential moment in the career of any artist "to let him speak out ".
The Festival Eclats D'Email Jazz Edition took the initiative of a meeting at the beginning of 2021 between the composer, arranger and bassist Alune Wade, also Senegalese, and Mangane. Meeting which turned out to be the right formula because these two compatriots had already met in other times, in other circumstances where the young Alune Wade was going to hear Nakodje in the four corners of Senegal. The time was now for reunions, listening and “doing together”.
Very quickly, the exchanges between the stakeholders resulted in a two-headed direction, Mangane in the composition, Alune Wade in the musical direction and the arrangements. The orchestra will be based on a Quintet, desired by Mangane, and completed for the concert and recording part by the presence of Valérie Belinga on vocals, Carlos Sarduy on trumpet and Hugues Mayot on saxophones.