Authentic man-orchestra or beat-boxer traditional SALIOU Kesseng He performs some fine percussions, marking crazy rhythms and reproducing West African peasant songs. Resident on the small island of Goree surrounded by nature, arts and the tragic memory of the slavery of the African people.
Self-taught, Saliou is a talented and inspired percussionist with all traditional instruments, but he handles with peculiar mastery the so-called Kass-Kass or Kesseng for Africa, aslalo either tche tchangot on other continents.
A light and mobile instrument, in the hand of a versatile percussionist, Saliou's sound adapts to all happy rhythms, and its repertoire restores rural songs from Senegal that he sings from the depths of his being: songs from the countryside and transhumance, prayers and ancestral celebrations of various ethnic groups.
