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CATRIN FINCH & SECKOU KEITA – The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,...
Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita soundchecking at The Royal Welsh College of Music Photo by Andy Morgan (c) This wasn’t so much of a grand opening as a work in progress preview before an audience of...
View ArticleFINDING THE ONE (extract) – How the kora came to mankind
No one is one hundred precent sure of how or when the kora came into being. Strangely, the first person to ever mention it was a Scotsman by the name of Mungo Park, who wrote about it in his Travels In...
View ArticleFINDING THE ONE (extract) – Meths, gunpowder and the revival of harp making...
The news of Aberfan shocked him into a new awareness. What was the fire that had destroyed his workshop compared to the river of slurry and filfth that snuffed out the lives of 116 children? Not...
View ArticleFINDING THE ONE (extract) – If your name is Keita, you’re still royalty
It was only after he’d started living in Europe and having kids of his own, that Seckou Keita started to wonder about his father. “I was in that mood,” he says, “I just wanted to find out.” He hadn’t...
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NEW BOOK – FINDING THE ONE: The strange and parallel lives of the West...
FINDING THE ONE The strange and parallel lives of the West African kora and the Welsh harp (English / Welsh) By Andy Morgan Photos by Josh Pulman and Andy Morgan Welsh translation by Catrin Henry...
View ArticlePHOTO ESSAY – Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita: ‘Clychau Dibon’ Sessions
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View ArticlePHOTO ESSAY – Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita Live
Here's a selection from a series of photo sessions I did in 2013 of Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita live in concert in Nottingham, Cardiff and Cardigan. The post PHOTO ESSAY – Catrin Finch & Seckou...
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CD SLEEVE NOTES –‘Clychau Dibon’ by Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
We live in a noisy world. Our cities and towns fizz with an almost permanent tinnitus of machine-generated sound. And even if, by some fluke, all that noise is absent for a while, most of us are...
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Finding The One – Songlines Review ***** (17/07/2014)
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