Tape, Joyce
Wlouha (je Revis)
African blueswoman, Joyce Tape is a singer-songwriter and bassist. Her new album "Wlouha-Je Revis!" is an album of human, cultural and musical encountering. For Joyce Tape: "it is the meeting that makes friendship, unity, solidarity possible".<br />She sings the blues from the bottom of her heart.<br /><br />Recorded in Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco and France, this album gives an important place to traditional instruments and icons of African music: Vieux Farka Touré and Delphine Mounkoro (Mali), the JAIXI (Ivory Coast ), Abdellah El Gourd of the Gnawa (Morocco).<br /><br />Her music is nourished by her Ivorian culture, tinged with western influences, a mix of tradition and modernity. Through engaging texts, Joyce TAPE delivers her emotions.<br />She released the album "Mogobé" in 2006. "Hélène" in 2012. "Niman" in 2014. In 2016, she released an album named "Du champ au chant chanté" which includes songs composed with young students. .<br /><br />In 2013, she met Vieux Farka Touré in Bamako during a musical collaboration with Boubacar Traoré for her previous album "Niman". Invited to his family, she got to know his relatives. He offered to work on 2 tracks on her last album. <br />The singles "Somobe" and "Emotion" are recorded in his new studio, inaugurated by Joyce Tape in September 2019.<br /><br />The "Jaixi" group are "her sons". She met them in 2017, during the first edition of the Dongri `N' blues festival of which she is the godmother. They immediately agreed to get involved in this album. They recorded "Assamcé" and "Sôgôman Folie" in February 2018, followed by numerous concerts in Côte d'Ivoire.<br /><br />For Joyce Tape, Maalem Abdellah El Gourd is a "giant, a very great Gnawa musician from Morocco". When she met him in Tangier in 2016, he told her "all my life I have worked with the greatest musicians in the world but never with a woman like you. What can I do for you?" That day, they played music in his studio from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. <br />Joyce returned in France in February 2017 for an artistic residency with her French musicians, which was a great success. More than 5,000 people, the press, yonug studients attended the final show. When she invited him to work on this album, the Maalem answer was "all the honor is mine", the recordings were made in Tangier in October 2019.