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Release Date: 01-03-1984
Label: Jaro Medien
Catalog Number: JARO4141-2
Barcode: 4006180414121
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pili Pili [15:38] | 6 | Ilé [07:12] |
| 2 | Smiling Lingala [04:25] | 7 | My Gongoma [06:24] |
| 3 | Kalungu Talks [06:36] | 8 | Kinshasa im Boté [08:31] |
| 4 | Virgin Jungle [06:30] | 9 | Kiba [07:37] |
| 5 | Afro Timento [05:37] | ||
Description:
Featuring: Manfred Schoof - Trumpets, flugelhorn; Angelique Kidjo - Vocals and The Isaac Tagul Group - Percussion, vocals. Including the legendary 16-minute trance-track 'Pili-Pili'.
Biography:
In the summer of 1984, Jasper Van't Hof - one of the best-known and dynamic pianists and keyboarders of European jazz - burst onto the club scene with the primal force of Pili Pili - a 15-minute trance recorded with the percussion formation Isaac Tagul Group of Guinea. Over 100,000 recordings of the piece were sold; the group took on the name of its title piece and became a hit band, especially in the club and disco scene. Pili-Pili's second CD Hoomba Hoomba lay the foundation for the career of Van't Hof's discovery Angelique Kidjo, the celebrated lead singer of Pili-Pili's next five albums and tours. Annual tours and festival appearances, such as at the Jazz Festival of Montreux, fortified the group's reputation, particularly as an excellent live band. In the years to follow, such well-known artists as Philippe Allaert (the producer of Vaya Con Dios, among other things), Nicolas Fiszman (Victor Lazlo), Marlon Klein (Dissidenten), Annie Whitehead (Pinguin Cafe Orchestra) and many other African and European musicians belonged to the Pili-Pili ensemble, both in the studio and in concert.
Jasper Van't Hof discovered his love for African music on a tour of Central Africa in 1982-83. Since then he has been drawn back to the black continent again and again. He was the first foreign musician to be invited to the Arts Alive Festival and to play in various townships of South Africa before the end of apartheid, an experience which deeply influenced and inspired him. In the past Pili-Pili cooperated with musicians from various African countries, such as Mali, Kongo, Senegal and Guinea. In 2000 for the first time Van't Hof realized a project with South African musicians – with the young Zulu choir Phikelela Sakhula from the city of Durban.
