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Sun Mar 30 08 08:00 PM | Brighton, UK
Venue: The Joogleberry Playhouse
Address: Manchester St, Brighton, BN2 1, UK



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8 unique tracks from 4 Gambian bands/ tribes
Recorded with 7 UK based musicians in The Gambia.
Yama Jatta
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Bu Ngen Munut
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Lambang
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Aids
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Penimo
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Kairaba
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Democracy
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Guedj E Mulan BUY WAV



You'll find plenty to see and hear on this site, All videos and audio now can be found on the ReverbNation.com website or seen in the player below.


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Latest Images are here and a full archive of photos can be found here




The XamXam concert at the Komedia was an outstanding success and we would like to thank everyone who came to see the show and all the people who worked hard to make it happen.

This concert was quite amazing as it was only the second concert the band has played and most of the musicians meet for the first time a year before the concert.

We are now working on finishing off the album and will be touring next summer so keep watching.




What is XamXam?

In only two weeks seven European musicians based in the UK made eight tracks with four different bands all from The Gambia. The Gambian musicians were from the tribes Jola, Karoninka, Mandinka and the Wolof. We all meet up in the Alliance Franco - Gambienne Cultural in The Gambia to develop the 8 songs. The musicians from the UK had not heard any of the Gambian songs before and we split up into four groups of 1-2. Each group worked with a tribe for half a day over the first two days. Then we recorded, played and worked hard to get 8 unique track arranged and recorded On the final Saturday we had a live run trough of each track. We also went to visit the Karoninka and Jola tribes, St James Island and as Musa's sister in-law had just had a baby we went to a traditional naming ceremony. But the end of the two weeks we had 8 great tracks, which we are preparing to release later this year, some amazing video and photography footage and a deep love of The Gambia.

Upon return to the UK the local musicians rehearsed four of the songs and put on a performance at the Babylon Lounge with African Night Fever. The place was full of photos from the trip. Videos for the four songs we could not play were alternated with live performances of the other tracks. Unfortunately it was impossible to do all the songs live without having the Gambian musicians join us.

Following the success of this performance and how well the music was being received Ousman move to the UK and worked with the musicians, Tom Fairbairn joined us on bass and we worked thorough the summer to fine tune the live sound. The second concert we did at in November 2007 at the Komedia, Brighton which was supported but the BBC and South East Arts Council. This was a great success too.

Now we are working on new tunes for the forthcoming tour this summer.

XamXam are a self funded band and if you would like to help support our projects click on the donate now button any amount no matter how small will help.



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