Domba Sanou (Tiekorkora)

SANOU DOMBA TIEKORKORA

Auteur, compositeur, interprète, luthier.
– 2 albums en solo et 1 album avec Babemba –


CONTACT
01 BP 24 Bobo-Dioulasso
Burkina Faso
Tel : (+226) 76 00 90 77, 20 95 05 74, 70 96 07 18
E-mail : [email protected] / [email protected]
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BIOGRAPHIE
Griot by his mother, Domba Sanou comes from the cast of blacksmiths by his father. Thanks to this double social status, he is totally immersing in the complexities of Mandings society. Parallel to his studies continued to a bachelor degree in accountancy-data processing, he joins formations and training courses on theatre, dance and music. He was initially within his family, where his father was beater, his uncles and brothers musicians: he had a strong musical initiation. This is also why he started to learn how to manufacture instruments.
In 1991, he was 11 years old and crossed the way of the famous director Amadou Bourou who developed the project Espace child. In collaboration with Lassane Kongo, a great dancer who had a strong influence on a generation of young burkinabe, this project aim to awaken artistic sense of childrens. Domba Sanou was noticed as a promising dancer and actor.
In 1998 he founded with his brother and sister the Yiribali troupe, with which he develop his talent of composer and musical interpreter. His brother, Moussa Sanou, an actual member of the troupe named « La fabrique des petites utopies » based on Grenoble (France), was a great support to develop Sanou’s artistic sense. At this time, he started to be interesting about Kora that he considered as a promising instrument.
Since 2003, he evolves in the framework of his own troupe « Bâdouwaou », and develops several quality collaborations in particular with the French cultural centre Henri Matisse of Bobo-Dioulasso.
In 2005, the choir’s master, Abbé Johanny call Domba Sanou to play with his choir on the Chorus Festival (WHERE??)
In 2006, he met the Dutch saxophonist Dick De Graaf on Jazz Festival of Ouagadougou. This meeting will allow following De Graaf during one year, and playing with great musician like the Malian organist Cheikh Tidiane Seck, or the Haitian Emeline Michelle.
Opened to various propositions, he went to many countries to play music in different continent (Mali, France, Brazil, etc) and offered his services to musicians like Bil Aka Kora, Alif Naaba, Sissao, the hip-hop band D-held, Trio Milk, Djeliya Senior, Sagno and Badenya of Siraba. In 2008-2009, thanks to Serge Aimé Coulibaly of the Faso’s company of Dance and Theatre, Domba Sanou met Kanzaï, a famous guitarist, who gave him the opportunity of make a tour in France.Domba Sanou, know as Tiekorkora owes his dynamism to his good knowledge about Kora music and instrument, that he can manufacture too.


ALBUMS/DISCOGRAPHY

Tiekorkora released is first 11 titles album, « L’Orphelin » (the Orphan), in 2007, with the participation of the modern flutist Hamzy Franck. After several requests, with the end of 2008 decides to make a second album entitle « Wata », composed by 7 instrumental titles.


CREATIONS
Domba Sanou is actually admitted as a good stringed-instrument maker, and especially because he had adapted this ancestral instrument to universal and multidimensional agreements. Since the end of 2006, he studies a new design in the assembly of a particular Kora. After two tears of non stop research, he elaborates the TIEKORA. It’s a Kora with several necks, which allow multiplication of cords, with one or several calabash (which is the sound box). The other components of the TIEKORA are skin, wood fabric, cords made up of fishing wire, iron and bugs In 2008, the TIEKORA 42 strings appeared for the first time in the Arts Christmas Market of French Cultural Centre Henri Matisse of Bobo-Dioulasso.
TIEKORA is actually protected by the Burkinabe Office of Royalties (BBDA).




Instruments

TIEKORA 42
This Kora has two necks, therefore 42 strings, 21 strings per neck, connect on the same calabash. Playing on the TIEKORA 42 is the base of the second album « Wata ».


TIEKORA 63
It is a Kora with 63 strings connected on a large calabash and three necks. There are 21 strings per neck. TIEKORA is definitely a revolution for the world of African artistic creations, following a detailed work by Tiekorkora.


TIEKORA SUPERPOSEE
Domba Sanou would propose his talent of creator, and decides to show that to be an artist does not mean to be insane or wandering, but to be able to do a work out of the common run. TIEKORA SUPERPOSEE is specially design for two or three playing on the same instrument.
It has two calabashes, face to face, surmounted by three necks. There are 21 strings in one face and 42 in the other.


Tiekora Electrique acoustique

C’est une autre systeme que le jeunne homme tiekorkora a mis au monde pour valoriser cet instument tant aimée de l’afrique qui est la kora oui une revolution pour dire au monde entier que la jeunesse afriaine ne dort pas mais travail celon leur moyen



PROJECTS

Tiekorkora does not think to stop here: he studies and undertakes meticulous research on an 84 strings Kora, with 4 necks, and on a 126 strings Kora, with 6 necks. Thus, Tiekorkora want to equalize the piano’s and the harp’s possibilities, while respecting the seniority of the instrument, and its tradition.

Domba Sanou never forgets his first objective that is to promoting the African culture.