Houssaine Kili
El-Houssaine Kili (* 1955 in Agadir ) is a Moroccan world music and afropop musician. His instrument is the Gembri , a three-string bass guitar.
Kili grew up in Morocco with the music of the Arabs and Berbers, but also with American rock and pop music. He was the bass player for the Southern Band , who played covers of pop songs in hotels and at festivals. At the same time he played the traditional music of the Gnawa South Morocco in the group Tam Tam . At the Agadir Conservatory he had the opportunity to work with jazz musician Randy Weston .
In 1977 he met the German jazz rock musician Christian Burchard from the band Embryo by chance , with whom he toured Morocco for two months. In 1980 Embryo undertook a joint tour of Morocco with the Tam Tam group with the support of the Goethe Institute .
In 1984 Kili came to Germany at the invitation of the dissidents , a group that emerged from Embryo , and became their singer alongside the Algerian Hamid Baroudi . He toured with the group through Europe and the United States and took part in three of their albums by 1988.
He then worked on solo projects and performed with Don Cherry , again with Embryo and in a duo with Embryo musician Roland Schaeffer . In 1999 he released his first solo album Safran , followed in 2003 by Mountain to Mohamed .
Discography
- Saffron (1999)
- Mountain to Mohamed (2001)
- Life at the Pyramids (with the Dissidents) (1985)
- Turn Peace (with embryo) (1989)
- Out of this World (with the dissidents) (1990)
- Dissidents live in New York (1991)
- Live in Berlin (with Embryo) (1998)
- Sentir (with Omar Sosa ) (2002)
- The Question How (with Laith al-Deen ) (2005)
Web links
- Literature by and about Houssaine Kili in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Houssaine Kili
- Houssaine Kili on culturebase.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kili, Houssaine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kili, El-Houssaine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Agadir |