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For more information about where we will be performing at, you can go to www.myspace.com/fuasimusic and check out the places and times.
I just finshed my new CD called "The Abakuá" and it will be on sale starting July 2, 2008 at the Badenscher Hof Jazz Club in Berlin, Germany (Badensche Str. 29/Ecke Berliner Strasse). Come by and pick up a copy and check out our live performance of some of the tunes. It will be in the stores and online in the next 2 weeks. I'll update you on where else in the world you can find it. You can always write me at fuasi@online.de and I will send it to you by post.
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Fuasi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Berlin, Germany, July 1, 2008
"Fuasi"
"The Abakua"
The new CD from the saxophonist/composer Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq
This is the first CD production since the year 2000 and the first production in the last 4 CD productions that Fuasi had recorded in a proper studio setting. All the previous productions, "Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq" (1997), "Fuasimodo Rings A Bell" (1998), and "Fuasi & Ensemble in Café Central in Madrid" (2000) have all been live audience CD productions.
On this CD Fuasi has supporting him is this production, 12 musicians, from the U.S as well as from Germany, Poland and Africa, on various tracks performing his 9 original compositions.
The selected tracks vary from "straight ahead" swinging pieces to Latin influenced selections to African influence "world music" tracks. He is performing on tenor sax, soprano sax, flute as well as vocals and various percussions
We believe this CD will prove to be a landmark achievement from Fuasi and show how this artist has grown and matured in his quest since his last CD to become an internationally recognized musician and composer on the world jazz scene.
Other achievements that fuasi as been connected with are his performances from coast to coast in the U.S. and in the last 16 years throughout Europe and parts of Africa, both leading his own ensemble as well as sharing the stage with such greats as Walter Bishop Jr., Jimmy Garrison, Jeff Littleton, Rudy Stevenson, Ed Blackwell, Arthur Blythe, Queen Negus H. Somayah Moore-Kambui and the Black Belt Symphony, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Danny Harper, Joe Bowie, Hal Singer, Sugar Blue, Nedra Wheeler, Abdu Salim, Dick de Graaf, Abraham Burton, Omar Sosa and Winard Harper.
His professional credits also include supporting roles in three German films and his stage theater credits include the composing of original scores for three plays performed in the U.S. and Germany as well as performing lead roles in these performances.
After graduating from college in 1972 he studied with the late great African-American pianist Horace Tapscott in Los Angeles, California which led to a lifetime relationship with Tapscott's "Pan-African People's Arkestra and the Union of God's Musicians and Artist Ascension" (UGMAA), during which time Fuasi served as assistant conductor as well as arranger, composer, copier and player of saxophone, clarinet and flute.
In 2007 Fuasi worked as Music Director of the African style "Cirque du Soleil" called "André Heller's "Afrika Afrika" which is currently touring through Britain and Ireland.
You can check out samples of Fuasi's other compositions and achievements at:
www.myspace.com/fuasimusic
Interview contact: Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq
Telephone: +49 30 216 1702
Mobile Handy: +49 172/306 6606
fuasi@online.de
Fuasi Abdul.Khaliq
Goltz Str. 32
D-10781 Berlin, Germany
www.myspace.com/fuasimusic
www.fuasi.com
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