ESINAM & SIBUSILE XABA
CREATION OF THE DUO – NEW PROJECT
Drawn both from their specific backgrounds, ESINAM and Sibusile are wandering and kindred spirits in music. As multi-instrumentalists, the two artists translate messages from their ancestors through rhythms and grooves.
Their vocal chanting enhances trance to rhythmic patterns that grace us by melodies of the future and past.
Thanks to their Belgian-Ghanaian and South-African roots, they are unique in their being, strong in their union and connected on deep artistic and spiritual levels. The collaboration between ESINAM and Sibusile Xaba is bringing healing to body and soul.
Bio
ESINAM is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist based in Brussels.
Early Years
Already at a very young age, she became fascinated by music, in particular by percussion instruments such as the tama. The piano was her first main instrument, then she opted for the flute. She creates a musical world of her own, filled with rhythms, grooves, melodies and loops.
Soundscapes
Solely carried away by sound, ESINAM succeeds in blending her soulful voice with traditional African percussion, adding here and there some electronic influences combined with sensible melodies and flute improvisations. Her compositions carry traces from numerous geographical, cultural and musical influences, which she collected from her personal history and through various travels, encounters, tours and collaborations.
On stage
After starting her solo career as a “one woman band” – sampling and looping all instruments herself to build her tracks – she invited other musicians to join her in order to have a full live band. Still performing with both her solo and band set-up, ESINAM always unveils herself by orchestrating an authentic music full of poetry, with rhythms and melodies that make her a unique voice in today’s jazz-and-beyond scene, leaving no listener untouched.
ESINAM debut Album
Shapes in Twilights of Infinity is OUT !
W.E.R.F. Records (Vinyl/CD/Digital)
SHAPES IN TWILIGHTS OF INFINITY
Built on futurist flute sounds, elaborate rhythms and sensitive melodies, ‘Shapes in Twilights of Infnity’ unfolds like a dreamlike path into an unparalleled musical universe. With her highly anticipated rst full album, multi-instrumentalist ESINAM invites us on a cosmic journey, a trip towards horizons coloured with sounds and influences that reach as far as the eye can see.
This record finds a balance between the acoustic and electronic, between the future and ancestral. The songs are deeply rooted in grooves and global sounds, at the same time composed and spontaneously evolving, always called with a strong musical feeling. From ‘New Dawn’ with its pulsating beats, vivid flutes and poetical spoken word featuring of the Londoner Nadeem Din-Gabisi, over the soulful jazz vibe of ‘Lost Dimensions’, to the etheric melodies and mesmerizing singing of South-African guest vocalist Sibusile Xaba on ‘Flowing River’: ESINAM delivers nothing less than a profound patchwork full of musical connections, where traces of house, trip hop and hip hop intertwine with tones from traditionals, blues and psychedelica.
Similar to this wide range of musical angles, her process of recording and producing is eclectic as well: ESINAM produced some of the tracks herself in her home studio, while others were recorded with her full band, formed with three musicians – Axel Gilain on bass, Pablo Casella on guitars and Martin Méreau on drums – who she picked precisely for their musi- cal identities. The combination of their acoustic and electronic instruments brings a soulful and vibrant interpretation to ESINAM’s compositions, uplifting their groovy vibe.
Based on loops, samples, impressions and eld recordings, each song follows the other like a cycle that opens, evolves, transforms and returns to the starting point. ‘Shapes in Twilights of Infinity’ became a unique music that touches the soul with emotion, that grasps you, questions you, does you good. A music that is rooted in culture and tradition while traveling far away, towards tomorrow, as a surprising and engaging infinity.
