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Niwel Tsumbu
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Niwel Tsumbu is the fifth child of a family of six born in 1982 in Democratic Republic of Congo (ex Zaire). Growing up in Kenshasa, he was a shy boy until the day his brother brought a guitar home. Just a week later Niwel's cousin Papy Makaya (who taught Niwel his first piece on the guitar) was amazed with the sixteen year old's ability to learn and play the music of his ancestors - soukous and rumba. From then on Niwel’s schoolbag was under his bed and the guitar took its place.. His mother’s hopes that her clever son would become an engineer or a lawyer faded as Niwel would lock himself in his room and play all day
Niwel Tsumbu: Milimo
by Ian Patterson
Congolese-born, Ireland-based guitarist Niwel Tsumbu admits that it took some plucking up of courage to make a solo album. Since moving to Cork in 2004 Tsumbu has always played in collaborative settings encompassing, jazz, rock, classical and folk. Partial credits include Sinead O'Connor, Buena Vista Social Club, Nigel Kennedy, Steve Cooney, Dave Flynn, Baba Maal, the ...
Milimo
By Niwel Tsumbu
Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rubato; Milimo; Tirizah; Étude I; Masta; Polyphony; Gracias Paco; Étude II; Afrique Moderne; Tears of Joy; Étude III;
The Silence Within; To Be Continued.
American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Invocation (Pura Fé Crescioni); Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man (Traditional, arr. Rhiannon Giddens); Rainy Day (Wu Man); Far Down Far (Maeve Gilchrist); Tamping Song (Haruka Fuji); Rela (Sandeep Das); Wihanblapi Mazachanku (Suzanne Kite); Have You Seen My Man/ (Cecile McLorin Salvant); Swannanoa Strings (Traditional, arr. Silkroad Ensemble); Milimo (Niwel Tsumbu); Fukagu Sanjurokkei (Kaoru Watanabe); Mahk Jchi (Pura Fé Crescioni); O Shout! (Mazz Swift).
You're The One
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad; You're The One; Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell); Wrong
Kind Of Right; Another Wasted Life; You Louisiana Man; If You Don't Know How
Sweet It Is; Hen In The Foxhouse; Who Are You Dreaming Of; You Put The Sugar
In My Bowl; Way Over Yonder; Good Ol' Cider.
Improvised Music Company@25, Various Artists At Sugar Club
by Ian Patterson
Improvised Music Company@25 Sugar Club Dublin, Ireland November 26, 2016 It was an appropriately festive atmosphere in the Sugar Club to mark Improvised Music Company's twenty fifth birthday celebrations. Older musicians, perhaps just starting out a quarter of a century ago, rubbed shoulders with the current generation of aspiring ...
Improvised Music Company: Orbital Pathways, Gravitational Pull
by Ian Patterson
Arguably some of the most dramatic changes in jazz have taken place in the last quarter of its century-long history: the emergence of a strong European jazz identity/identities; technological advances that empower individuals to become their own producers; Youtube, which has all but erased the boundary between past and present; the increase in pedagogical institutions; pan-national ...
Pouric Songs
By Niwel Tsumbu
Label: Frisbee Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Mad for You; Phantom Moves; Skin to the Bone; Stone Walls; Beautiful Freaks Like Us; Freaky Funk; Woodlands; Harvest Do; Beauty Becomes You; Quartz; The Mad Magician; Lullaby.
D.F.F.: Pouric Songs
by Ian Patterson
D.F.F. is a seven-piece super-group founded by multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Dave Flynn and Pouric Songs is its stellar debut recording. The versatile Flynn is also the man behind the Clare Memory Orchestra--a fusion of Ireland's leading traditional and classical musicians--so it's no surprise that D.F.F. blends genres and colors so seamlessly. Pop, rock, African rhythms and folksy balladry ...
D.F.F. - Exciting Cross-Genre Band Play The Button Factory, Dublin, April 10
D.F.F. at the Button Factory Saturday 12th April: Doors 8pm D.F.F. featuring the musical talents of Vyvienne Long, Niwel Tsumbu & Dave Flynn. Touring their debut album Pouric Songs out 28 March on Frisbee Records What does D.F.F. stand for one might ask? Well it can mean whatever you want it to mean, whatever definition comes ...
