Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita SUBA Trio: Tiny Desk Concert
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- Felix Contreras | July 5, 2023
We've had hundreds of different voices and instruments behind the Tiny Desk over the years, but to my ears the performance that featured Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita sounded as if it was dropped directly from the heavens of musical compatibility right into our laps.
From the very start of "Allah Léno," the notes began to sprinkle down like soft snowflakes from Sosa's piano and Keita's magnificent 24-string West African kora, while percussionist Gustavo Ovalles' tasteful drumming percolated beneath the interplay of Sosa and Keita. Proving once again that the Tiny Desk space is sacred ground for musical inspiration, barely four minutes in, Keita ended an inspired run with a huge smile acknowledged by his bandmates as well as those lucky enough to be in the NPR Music offices that day.
The title of the second song "Kharit" means "friendship" in the Senegalese language wolof and it starts with Ovalles' spellbinding, rhythmic work with traditional Venezuelan maracas. It starts at a relaxed pace but picks up speed with intuitive interaction between Sosa and Keita.
The last song "Maam" is devoted to "all mothers," a sentiment that cuts across borders. This is truly an international band with Sosa hailing from Cuba, Keita from Senegal and Ovalles from Venezuela and the song titles are a mix of Arabic and west African wolof. And for about twenty, glorious minutes, the Tiny Desk was a weigh station along an ancient musical route connecting our imaginations with the vision of a truly remarkable trio.
SET LIST
"Allah Léno"
"Kharit"
"Maam"
MUSICIANS
Omar Sosa: piano
Seckou Keita: kora
Gustavo Ovalles: percussion
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Felix Contreras
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Creative Director: Bob Boilen
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Sofia Seidel
Audio Assistant: Neil Tevault
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Joshua Bryant, Hazel Cills
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
#nprmusic #tinydesk #seckoukeita #omarsosa - Hudba
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Let me just float away real quick
Could not have said it better myself ❤
Exactly
This is why I love Tiny Desk. It doesn't matter what type of music genre they present, I find it all highly enjoyable. The sound from this group is so meditative.
100!
Facts!
100%
The whole album is. Also, check out the song "Iyawo" by Omar. I just let that one song play over and over as I work.
@chappahx thank you for the tip! Never heard of this group and I love it!
The kora's sound is one one the purest sounds ever. So soothing.
The Kora is the traditional instrument of Mali
Players like Toumani Diabate are the 17 th generation of kora players in his family
They are often griots as well
Wish I could go to Mali but not cool fir foreigners right now …
I love being introduced to artists while they're performing live. This is a beautiful concert. It's funny the first song is about traveling, because the whole set transports you. Time to listen again!
I closed my eyes and could see myself at a restaurant with live music, people talking, good company and food, fresh air, night lights and fires
huge props to Gustavo Ovalles!! His rhythms are such important parts of the songs!
I wish I could like this 100 times! On repeat. Thank you Tiny Desk for bringing such beautiful and wide range of music
Keita's huge smile when Ovalles comes in with that groove on bongos.
!When Fatoumata Diawara performed a home concert last year, I thought it could get no better, but now to have Sekou and Omar?! I just love the vast demonstration of music appreciation that the Tiny Desk team has! It would absolutely warm my heart if you invited Sona Jobarteh to perform! Thank you for bringing Kora and other traditional African musicians/instrumentalists to this stage!
Oh yes, I would love to hear/sea Sona Jobarteh on a Tiny Desk too! Saw her live, she is absolutely AMAZING!
This group deserves every success and more.
The combination of instruments and cultures and energies - Cuban, African is heart-warming and comforting. Our ancestors are smiling, and saying "yes"!. Thank you all for sharing your phenomenal talents. Thanks for this tribute to mothers and grandmothers. We appreciate it.
Being African or black comes with a lot struggles but I won’t change it for the life of me. Despite the odds, we are a vibe ✊🏿🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭👏🏿👏🏿🏃🏿🙏🏿
Facts‼️🎯💯🌈🙌🏾
Yes!!! ❤❤❤
Say it loud!❤
A WHOLE ONE! Love this skin I’m in! 🤎! Love y’all too!❤
Un moment de grâce ❤❤❤
Yes, nothing can be better than that! Such joy when the musicians are enjoying their creation as much as the audience! Bring them back!🎵🎶🎵🎵🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏼
This is my favorite Tiny Desk concert by far. Saturday early morning here on the Pacific side and just THE perfect music for the cloudy morn, this will bring sunshine. Gonna listen to this again and again. MUSICIANS indeed...high praise for Omar Sosa on piano and Seckou Keita on kora and Gustavo Ovalles on percussion. Sheer beauty. Thank you...thank you
I could not agree more. The beauty, the joy and compassion of this is heart-warming.
Mine too on replay!!!!
I love all music featuring Seckou Keita. He’s awesome, so full of deep soul and joy. This trio takes the cake! ❤
I love Tiny Desk!! I am constantly being exposed to different genres of music. It's an expansive education for the mind, body and soul! Thank you.
Thanks for your diversity in ALL prospects!!! NPR shows how it should be!
Omar and Seckou finally on Tiny Desk🙏🏽 the world needs this music so much!!!
Some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard
That emotions of Africa music is something unexpectedly closed to heavens doors
What a lovely set! Here are the timestamps:
0:00 Allah Léno
7:02 Kharit
14:05 Maam
Beautiful souls. This music is blissful. The piano changed my breathing pattern. Almost cried a lil.
I’m here smiling throughout the whole concert amazed at how music makes me happy and how these musicians are delivering one of the purest healing and relaxations sessions ever!!!
Thank you Omar and Sekou, now I'm fully recharged ! Music is indeed energy for our souls !
You can feel the love and friendship between them.
Memories of late 90s California, dancing away the beauty and youthful years in happiness and harmony with a multicultural family of friends of the world! ❤🎉🎉🙏
Beautifully stated and relatable.
I love discovering new sounds from the show. Thank you npr music for sharing profound sounds
Such an amazing brotherhood, creating vibrant soundscapes.. they swept me away to another place ❤
I love the unique African instruments used in this set. Such beautiful sounds from these talented musicians
You can’t help but feel optimistic when hearing this music. It just reeks of joy and optimism
I've been a fan of Sekou Keita's for a long time, this is a blessed day
I'm Mandinka plus I speak Wollof (with English) on a daily, so this is doing my heart something ❤💯
Omar querido! Tu magia no tiene límites, me ha encantado! Gracias, algún día nos volveremos a ver en algún lugar del mundo. Adelante Genio! 😘
I had never heard of them prior to this coming across my CZcams feed. Now I can’t stop listening to them on Spotify. I AM a fan! Thank you Tiny Desk Concerts ❤🖤💚
I liked this a soon as it came on. Very meditative and relaxing.
The range of music is out of this world. Awesome!
World music is a treasure trove - music is literally universal, harmony is a function physics. This performance is perfect.😊
Ive watched this over ten times literally and it only gets better!
❤❤❤❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾One of my favs. Tiny Desk does it again!!!
What a treat! Kora is such a soothing instrument and this trio performance carries peace.
I'm in the proces of sound testing a small speaker I just made myself, finished two hours ago. The speaker loves this 🥰
Beautiful sound, touching…❤
I got to see him live, this man was playing children's toys and made magical music!!!!!🎉 great job tiny desk❤
Well done Seckou to get this far!!! I've seen you many many years ago in Coventry and have followed your journey & music since. ❤
An admiring local fan based in Grantham, UK 😊
This is a beautiful concert. It should also have been in Black music month. Music is awesome.
Senegalese music is romantic, entrancing, and spiritual all at the same time. This was wonderful!
This music is large than Senegal, this is mandinka music.
@@Sterek100 In that case, Mandinka music is beautiful.
Just....sent me into a trance.
Took 10 mins to type this.
My body melts into it, beautiful
THANKS FOR DEDICATING THAT LAST SONG TO THE MOM'S, GOD BLESS YOU 🖤⭐
Dubai, 8am. My morning ritual: coffee and music... but today was different. It was music that took me far away. I'm from South America, I lived in the Caribbean and my life journey took me to the middle east. This music had everything I have been exposed during all these years, it tasted fresh, melancholic and vibrant at the same time.... It moved me to the point that I cried, beautiful! What else can makes us feel all this than love and good music, and that's what this amazing trio is: love+music!
Thanks for sharing all of this with us.... now I'm ready to start my day 🧡🎶🙏🏼
So well put...truth straight from the heart...feel same way!
I grew up in middle east, lived in India for 5 years, and my life took me to Europe, now I listen to the Trio after hearing them on Jazz24 radio which I used to listen to in Middle East, hoping this music will do some magic work and take me out of Europe back to Middle East!!
3 beautiful musicians, making beautiful music. What a treat.
Bravo! I was thoroughly enchanted. Thank you, gentlemen.
The joy...great
A gift, thank you!
This right here was pure perfection🎯💯🙌🏾🌈🔥🔥🔥
These three Kings were simply amazing‼️😍❤️🥰
Some of the best music programming ANYWHERE. This booking team is TOP NOTCH. Kudos on this work
Que som maravilhoso, muito amor! Viva Africa
Irmão de luta de São Paulo - Brasil
Amazing soul music, thank you 🙏
So beautiful! I have discovered so much amazing music through Tiny desk. Thank you!
Beautiful. The holiness of music.
If you loved this, check out Keita’s collab with harpist Catrin Finch, the album Clychau Dibon is sublime
Wow!! Yes!! 🌟
Possibly my favourite Tiny Desk concert yet, there is so much of beauty, wisdom and joy in the interplay of these three musicians and cultures. Whenever I watch this set, I always end up feeling that the world is a better place than I thought it was before I started watching.
Big up and blessing from Réunion island Indian ocean
Really... I've got back to the the virtual world.... and that's what it gives back to me... pure way of living... the way true musicians going trough life...
No puedo creer ver esto a las 7 de la mañana, es hermosooooo
omg they are pure JOY!!
NAMASTE🕊️
Super smooth sound
When you're so engrossed and joyous in your performance, magic can't help but to seeps through and elevate all who are privileged enough to listen. This is communion between performers and the audience at its core.
Beautiful music to wake up to after July 4th 🇺🇸
My cats and dog are vibing to this.
So true I didn’t wanna come to work today but this tiny desk just put me in a whole vibe to make it through
This music is about uplift, inclusion, empathy and compassion.
It’s most definitely not about patriotism/nationalism and/or the day “after July 4th 🇺🇸”
@@waynedexterTrue but it IS the day after the 4th, and it sounds like they were just vibing, not necessarily pushing a pro-Patriot agenda, though I could be wrong
@@waynedexter not everything has to do with the narrative you feed yourself from somehow feeling like you were mistreated when what your probably referring to happened to someone who lived over 100 years ago.
Stop playing the victim and ruining that which is celebrated by the real patriots and hard working people.
Do you know what it’s like for someone in Cuba or Botswana? They actually flee to come to this country and celebrate July 4th proudly. What about Iranian immigrants who fled in 1970s to come to US. Now they own real estate and businesses. Patrick Bet David is a multimillionaire who came to this country with nothing.
Stop playing the victim and work hard!
We are recovering from covid. And this music brings joy which helps healing.
7:35 am in Pomona California. This music is flat out mind blowing. Like im in another demintion. Another world.
Smiles all around 💚
What a beautiful energy this guys give out. Thanks!
Simply a chef-d’œuvre!
A Deep deep Thanks to You 3 , So much Love spread !!!!
Dear @NPRMusic Thank you for saving the world during the pandemic ❤🩹
J'adore cette sonorité de kora. Merci à ces talentueux musiciens et à NPR music.
Wow! Este video es una verdadera joya musical. La combinación de emociones y originalidad en cada nota me ha dejado sin palabras. Cada momento está lleno de sentimiento y pasión, y se nota el nivel musical tan alto que tienen los artistas involucrados. Puedo sentir cómo cada acorde y cada melodía me envuelven en un viaje sonoro inigualable. Es simplemente hipnotizante y mágico.
bella musica, bellos musicos, bello mensaje. Thank you Tiny Desk! ❤
Fantastic lovely music, but also such a treat to watch top musicians having such fun playing.
Very lovely. My favorite kind of music. I'm walking on the beach or in the forest or in a city where all peoples live together in peace.
Machalla fière de toi Docteur Seckou Keita bravo à vous Omar Sosa 🎉❤
This music brings me to another world
Saw this duo/trio last year, it was a beautiful love fest
oh my god amazing to hear Sekou Keita 'unlugged' WOW
This was lovely to listen too
Love this ❤. Love Africa ❤. Sending love to Senegal and Love the Tik tok dance from Kharit 🤣😂🤣
Beautiful ❤
what a amazing band, Guuuys!!
Cela sent bon le voyage, la générosité,bref du pur bonheur ❤
so cool!
I've watched this video more times than I care to admit. More times than any Tiny Desk for sure. THIS IS MUSIC! So chill. I hear the ancestors beckon me, come!
So lovely!🙏
Like morning sunshine birds singing waterfalls ❤
Spellbinding. Also love Seckou Keita's contribution to the Spell Songs collective.
Just beautiful
This was beautiful
I love Senegalese music like it blows my mind. I love alot of artists from the Congo too, but Senegal really is so fantastic
Senegal, Congo and Mali music
Pure joy 🎶💃☀️🕊💫 thank you! 💖
Sheer beauty!