BA BALANCE 
'Around The Crocodile Pond'


BA BALANCE ‘AROUND THE CROCODILE POND’
“Guitar and percussion. That's it. That's what you get. But what a world of music you enter when two old friends
– one from Denmark, the other from The Gambia and each a master of their own craft - sit down and decide, finally, to make a record.” Iain Scott, Triple Earth & Sterns Music
 

BA BALANCE 
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'Djembe' from ‘Around The Crocodile Pond’


Live in Concert Alice Cph 03.12.2020!
BA BALANCE OPENING FOR TAMIKREST 



‘Around The Crocodile Pond’ features the two friends Preben Carlsen and Sal Dibba grooving and improvising on ten remarkable songs by Preben Carlsen. Guitar riffs and melodies wrapped in effect pedals, loops and African rhythms creates a personal blend of music landscapes and makes the duo sound like a whole band. Preben Carlsen's feeling for the sub-Saharan African mood mixed with punk and jazz has resulted in his personal guitar sound. A sound with traces back to his Danish West Coast origin but nurtured and developed through 20 years of travelling, meetings and collaborations with masters such as Toumani Diabate, A.B. Crentsil, Bassekou Kouyate, Koo Nimo, Pa Bobo Jobarteh, Etienne Mbappé, Harouna Samake and even Pee Wee Ellis. Sal Dibba grew up in Bakau, a vibrant urban coast town in The Gambia famed for its famous crocodile pond. His skills on traditional West African music and contemporary Western music has led him to work with international stars like Tony Allen, Titiyo and Toumani Diabate. The music on ‘Around the Crocodile Pond’ flows with polyrhythmic elegance as the tunes weave organically in raw circular road movie-style Afro Blues. Iconographic reminiscent of wild wide landscapes, from the deep mangrove forests in the Southern states of USA to the flat red mountains on the Mali desert and with a dramatic blue sky above it all.
Carolina Vallejo
One World Records 2020
 

‘AROUND THE CROCODILE POND’
Preben Carlsen Guitars Sal Dibba Percussion
All music Composed, Arranged & Produced ©by Preben Carlsen 
©℗One World Records 2020

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