NICK MORRISON & BAND – single release show & after show party

Bar BoBu proudly presents live on stage:

NICK MORRISON AND BAND

doors: 19h
donation based

Nick Morrison is a French-American guitarist, singer, and composer. His passion for West-African string music is already audible on his first recordings (My Poor Kingdom, 2012), which predate the experience of jamming backstage with Tinariwen and learning how they tune their guitars. Over the next decade, he played in several Berlin-based afrobeat bands, spent two months in Sénégal, and in collaboration with his wife Maike Novák released two colourful ‘global-folk’ EPs as Pallet of Leaves. He has played on numerous records as a sideman, and through his association with the Polyversal Souls and the Philophon label, he shared the stage with such luminaries of African music as Alemayehu Eshete, Stella Chiweshe and Lee Dodou. Throughout this period, he continued to refine his Kora-influenced approach to the guitar, creating a body of songs that range from the melancholic to the ecstatically joyful.

This concert celebrates the release of Nick’s first full band single, ‘Mountain Goat’, featuring the Rhythmers, a rhythm section of Berlin-based musicians from Ghana led by Ekow Alabi Savage. Ekow is now a regular member of Nick’s band, alongside the Italian bass wizard Pietro Fornara and the Brazilian keyboard player Mauricio Fleury. The night will feature other special guests, to be announced soon!