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PART 3 CROWDFUNDING:
It is post production time, we recorded 5 more tracks on December 20, 2023 at the Samurai Studios with Amina’s sextet with Wayne Escoffery, Alex Pope Norris, Rudy Royston and Yasushi Nakamura. For this part we would need about $3750, to pay for the studio, mixing and mastering by Mike Marciano. We hope to do this in January 2024, so we can start the album design and CD reproduction in February 2024.
PART 2 CROWDFUNDING:
As you might have seen on Facebook, Instagram, or in our email blasts from the last couple of months, We are working on an incredible project combining Amina’s Sextet with the Matsiko World Orphan Choir from Liberia. “The Suite for Africa” is recorded and mixed at this point
The suite is about 16 minutes, and to make this a full album, we will be recording the sextet on December 20, 2023 at the Samurai Hotel Studios in Queens by Mike Marciano of Systems Two.
In the old days, we would record an album and recoup the money with CD sales. These days, with all the streaming and digital media, that concept doesn’t work anymore.
This is why we are starting a second part of our crowdfunding campaign to make this recording possible.
PART 1 CROWDFUNDING:
We were able to record and mix the Suite For Africa with the Matsiko Choir, thanks to the generous help of our crowdfunders for part 1 of this project. Now, we only need to master this part of the amazing project featuring the Matsiko World Orphan Choir and the Amina Figarova Sextet.
The instrumental part of the Suite had been recorded on May 25, 2022, at the Brooklyn Recording Studios in NYC. We performed live in May 24 in NYC, and we recorded the Matsiko Choir at Teaneck Sound in New Jersey on May 25, 2023, and at the Clayton Studios in St Louis, MO on June 20 and 21, 2023.
See here a collage from the recording and live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVZ6BQTWJ1M
We invite you to support this project by contributing to our crowdfunding campaign. Your generosity will enable us to bring this incredible collaboration to life and share it with the world. Let’s come together and make this project a reality!
Matsiko World Orphan Choir and the Amina Figarova Sextet RECORDING
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$10,000.00
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Campaign Story
In 2018, Amina composed a suite for a South African children’s choir and her sextet, which was performed at the “Joy of Jazz” Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa with a student choir from Soweto. Her aspiration was to record this masterpiece with the choir, but due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, it was impossible. However, fate intervened when Amina and Bart found themselves on the same flight from Europe to NYC with the Matsiko World Orphan Choir from Liberia. After conversing with the choir director, they decided to perform and record music together that was originally intended for South Africa.
The Matsiko World Orphan Choir is composed of 24 orphaned and at-risk children from Liberia, West Africa. They spend 12 months in 2022-23 performing in churches across the USA to gain 1,000 educational sponsors for their siblings, families, and friends. They will be back for a 9 month tour in 2024, also joining the Amina Figarova sextet for a number of concerts.
ABOUT MATSIKO:
Matsiko Children International is an independent family-run NGO that supports over 2,000 vulnerable and at-risk children with a complete education. The choir has recently released an album called “Through These Eyes,” featuring original songs and their distinctive interpretation of traditional African songs, recorded in Monrovia, Liberia. The choir sings about love, hope, joy, and optimism.
The “Matsiko – Let The Children Sing” Documentary Sizzler https://youtu.be/pZxr_FX7qxU?si=TU9zqaz1d9Yolkw4 showcases the inspirational stories, music, and journeys of these incredible kids who have escaped poverty and avoided child trafficking through music and education. The film is filmed by the children, who also provide the music for the soundtrack. The ultimate aim of the film is to provide education to 10,000 children in Liberia. Last year, 92 traffickers were arrested in the USA, with 2,700 children rescued from traffickers in the Americas. If the goals are achieved, 11,000 children will be removed from the threat of child trafficking.
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May, 2024
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Concert and first part recorded
Hello everyone,
Thank you all for your contributions so far.
We had a fantastic concert on May 24 with 5 standing ovations, and went the next day in the studio in Teaneck, we could only finish the first part of the suite with the vocals, and will continue the vocal recordings on June 20 and 21 in St Louis Missouri.
For that reason, we had to higher the crowdfunding amount to $4,500, as we have much more costs than expected.
Soon we have some clips from the recording and the concert.
Bart
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