User talk:Ouanani

“Vote Etnik, no matter how ethnically loaded it may be, represents Québec deeply and completely. This disc is so much in tune with reality that it is allowed to dream that, if Ouanani deals its cards well, it could become a major band on the market all categories set aside.” - Yves Bernard, Le Devoir

"As far as collective frenzy is concerned, World Music group Ouanani won the prize. Firmly led by the hand by Jean Arsenault and Sadio Sissokho, the band was as much in its element as the whales which laze in the fjord. Used to marathon like performances, the African-Caribbean-Québec band could have kept until sunrise." - Antoine Léveillée Voir, Aut'Fréquences

OUANANI is a festive and multi-cultural World Music band made of 5 musicians: a true native of Lac St-Jean, Québec, a Senegalese, a Ghannaian-Togolese, a Mozambican and an Acadian from Moncton, NB. They sing in eight languages : french, wolof, khassonke, xitswa, portuguese, spanish, english and creole. With organic-electronic sounds and a self-deprecating sense of humour, OUANANI fuses Québec with Africa, the West Indies and Latin America to make all sorts of audiences dance. Their album, “Vote Etnik” with its far-out tunes and its 44-page booklet printed on 100% recycled paper with vegetal ink was extremely well received by the media.

Famously known for the liveliness of its performances fueled by an array of irresistible rhythms, OUANANI gives a most energetic, colorful, interactive and dance oriented show laced with a few moments of tenderness.

Powered by joyful energy and melodies, OUANANI tangles a wide variety of themes such as immigration, racism, love, seduction and surrealism! OUANANI also makes use of quotes by authors and poets such as Gaston Miron, Zoé Valdes and St Matthews.

• Album of the Week (ICI, 2008) • Live performances in Mexico (Ollin Kan) and in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon in 2008 • Three times #1 on CIBL’s Francophone charts in 2008 • Between #11 and #20 on Radio-Canada’s national charts in 2008 • Live performances at Les FrancoFolies de Montréal in 2008 • Featured television performance on “Belle et Bum” Special Holiday Show in 2006 • Audience Award at The festival International de la Chanson de Granby in 2004 (under the name of Jean Arsenault et les Jeanpignons)

OUANANI'S BIO

Jean Arsenault, a native of a little town in the north of Québec, traveled in 27 countries before settling down in Montreal to put together a World Music collective. Between December 2000 until June 2005, he composed and experimented with musicians from several countries and performed in different live situations. The collective was called Jean Arsenault et les Jeanpignons Magik until November 2004 when it officially became l’Orkestr ouananik de OUANANI (OoO) better known as OUANANI. Jean’s main collaborator was El Hadji Diouf until 2004 who has now been replaced by Sadio Sissokho.

Summer of 2006 saw the launch of “Lac-Saint-Jeanpignon magik” in Lac St-Jean, a single which sky-rocketed to the top of the charts of all the radio stations in the area.

From january 2006 to August 2007, Jean Arsenault brought together 58 individuals coming from all sorts of backgrounds among whom, Sadio Sissokho, Stefano Pando, Yousy Barbara Ruiz, El Hadji Diouf, Ricky Campanelli and Freeworm as a main creative element for Ouanani's first album, “Vote Etnik” which was launched in Montreal on June 10, 2008.

Following the most stringent norms of durable development, Ouanani’s “Vote Etnik” includes a 44 page booklet featuring the lyrics, illustrations and photos and printed on 100% recycled paper with vegetal ink.

"It had been a real long time since we had heard an album laced from start to finish by such madness, impertinent, healthy and joyful at the same time. Starting with the fateful sample by Jacques Parizeau himself, which is immediately answered by gusts of Sadio sissoko’s djembe. Fasten your seatbelts!”. - Ralph Boncy, Voir, June 12, 2008

Instrumentation - Sadio Sissokho (Senegal) : voice, djembe, congas, kora, spoons, dance - Patrice Agbokou (Ghanna-Togo) : bass, dance - Samito Matsinhe (Mozambique) : voice, keyboards, dance - Alain Bourgeois (New-Brunswick) : drum - Jean Arsenault (Lac-Saint-Jean) : voice, kaos pad, congas, spoons, bells, dance

Discography - First LP : Vote etnik, june 2008

- Vote etnik (the song) three time #1 on CIBL Radio, 2008

- Many weeks on CBC radio charts, 2008

- #1 hit in Lac-Saint-Jean "Lac-Saint-Jeanpignon magik", 2006

- Jean Arsenault, OUANANI

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