Kilimandjaro Soul-Blues Band - Kilimandjaro Soul-Blues Band (1995)

Personnel:
Lead Vocals, Guitar – Abraham S. Yaméogo
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Denis Palatin
Guitar, Vocals – Thierry "T.Z. Guitare" Lopez
Tenor Saxophone – Denis Reynier
Alto Saxophone – Nicolas Guillemet
Bass, Vocals – Jean-Luc Déat
Congas, Bongos, Percussion – Jerome Hulin
Congas, Timbales, Percussion – Pierre Bon
Harmonica – Ludo "Lazy Lew" Beckers*
Piano, Organ – Ludwig Seuss
Trombone – Sylvain Dyrda
Trumpet – Patrice Lereche
Vocals – Yvon Susini

"With this music, it's impossible to cheat, this one is pure as his guitar and his song attest to it." "Many people have come to believe that Kilimanjaro is my pseudonym," says Abraham Yameogo, smiling. In the group he is with Jean-Luc Deat, the acting pillar, has grown steadily and asserts a strong personality.On the occasion, the "KILIMANDJARO SOUL BLUE BAND" - a surname with the appearance of profession of faith, was even a success in the first part of Luther ALLISON, of Maceo PARKER, Carey BELL, and more recently of BB KING, Othis GRAND, Etta JAMES, TRIBUTE TO MUDDY WATERS, Kenny NEAL.

Each time the performance offered with his deliberate improvisation of improvisation, total osmosis with the audience, is a hit. Year after year, the group of Abraham YAMEOGO remodeled over the meetings, feeling and requirements more and more precise, has earned a reputation.

Musically compact, the expression "Kilimanjaro" is very marked by the unusual history of its leader. Already this touch of unique guitar, subtle and fiery in generosity as this voice that seems to the late Jimmy HENDRIX. A rough, rough stamp like insomnia and different mornings. Raucousness made for the Blues ... and that we forget more.

Abraham YAMEOGO has preserved from his native BURKINA-FASO (formerly Upper Volta) a taste for traditional black music and rhythms capable of capsizing the most devious spirits. He is only two years old when he joins France and Paris for a first stay (where he is treated for a polio that leaves his legs paralyzed). The return to Ouagadougou will be brief, two years, before a second start, for Nancy this time. Music quickly takes precedence over law school.

He immerses himself without restraint, founds his first "band", "Zig-Zag", which will not leave him in memory an imperishable memory but will comfort him in his convictions.

Self-taught, he will do as all those of his generation, his first steps in rock ... Hendrix, the Rolling Stones. When he returns temporarily to BURKINA, Abraham, during his concerts, which invariably turn to popular ball and improvised party, tastes the chilli perfume of the "revolution" reggae on the move. This quest for roots will naturally lead him to the blues. The singularly rich route leads to a real revelation and this discernible development in the fingering that makes the guitar vibrate in a unique way, the highly communicative happiness of playing, of being on stage. So many signs that do not deceive. Epidermal and instinct, the music of Abraham Yameogo and "Kilimanjaro" is none the less riddled with moving subtleties.