Fabrication... d'instruments Insolites "Ekang" à Paris par FRANCOIS essindi

I am a Cameroonian musician. I play traditional instruments of the equatorial forest !: A string (Mvet, Ngomo) A traditional wind harps: (pygmies flutes, leaves, Arc of mouth ...) From percussion: nkul (Tam tam call) Ngom (long drum) bodily (snail Shell and hazelnut) and body percussion. I also Storyteller and actor. self-taught luthier, I especially tinkers traditional instruments (Equatorial Central Africa) Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon ... Musically, I've always worked in the project, my first musical project Otoulbaka: http://www.myspace.com/ otoulbaka, represented Cameroon at several venues and festivals in the world between 1980 and 2001. Since 2003, actor Theatre company Needless to the city of Amiens, I did not let my dream to promote culture by traditional instruments of my Ekang culture. traditional harps (Mvet, Ngomo) and others, tells the snail shell, pygmy flutes, nkul ... In 2005, I initiated the musical project Abakuya through a meeting in Switzerland with an Australian bassist ( Jimi Sofo) http://www.myspace.com/abakuya in this project will be born two disc auto production including: - Primitive love 2008 - Ep Abakuya in 2010 I collaborated with different artists time and benefited from experiences in various cultural projects. (Painting, Music, African tales, theater, performences ...) Brice Wassy (Cameroon) Madesheerkhan (France) Caroline Chivé (France) Hilaire Penda (Cameroon) Abdelgawad Riad (Egypt), Françoise Claudine (France) Sally Nyolo (France) Nathalie Durand (France) and many others. Apart from concerts, I offer workshops on rhythm, storytelling and dramatic art. Author of four books of bilingual and illustrated tales out by Editions L'Harmattan, I work on the harvest of these tales, rituals and sing fable of Ekang Culture (south Cameroon) throughout my travels ... In the Ekang purpose of cultural promotion and endangered instruments, I make in a Paris workshop (Rue Sedaine), some of these instruments to make them credible. I am going to meet the artists and the modern instruments to share my experience and my culture to the greatest number. It is from these meetings will be born as my current project: "Francois Essindi and Latag Ekang Music Experiences ..." This project brings together musicians from all backgrounds, machinery and instruments. so I work with the help of Akiba association for all contracts and also on a project to establish a cultural center in Cameroon. My website: www.abakuya.net My email: abakuya@gmail.com Tel: 06 95 67 28 15