The Gambia’s Music legend , Abdel Kabir and his Soto Koto Band is set  to embark on a promotional tour of  Europe and America .

The  tour  which is expected to start  on February 16 2008 at  LVC Leiden, the Paard in the Hague and Amsterdam. will cover Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Norway among other destinations

CD Gumbay dance

The world acclaimed CD Gumbay dance was produced in America by a renowned Gambian Music producer, Oko Drammeh. The CD is distributed by Virgin Music Group worldwide. The CD is successful in Europe and America and sold in all major recording studios in London,Paris,New York, and have reached the Billboard top 10 world music charts. It is a regular feature on America cable radio and in airplaine.

The Gumbay dance CD is a promotional tool to raise awareness about the advance stage of Gambian music and the cultural diversity in The Gambia blended with African culture, an influence from the Carribean, in the United States.

The Band will be in USA in May this year until September. They are also expected to play on Labour Day before returning to the The Gambia.

According to Oko Drammeh, the tour is important for Gambian music because if one artist embark on it, he or she will open doors for other to follow .

“We have to go internationally to develop and to advance the trend and moods and also in technology. The tour is also good to raise the confidence and to be challenging with dynamic experience for world stage shows. The  Gambian songs of on this CD played by famous musician like Micheal Jacksons Band Horn-Section, Musician from Jazz Legend, Quincy Jones, Stanley Clark and the famous backing vocalists for Marvin Gaye and Micheal Jackson’s Leone Ware.

The CD is a musical combination of funk, blues and Jazz and rhythms of The Gambia.

Tour:

Europe                                        Discography                               Hit tunes

Europe                                        Motherland Dearest                    Bamba Bojang

USA                                            Takunder                                   Kelefa

Canada                                        Gumbay Dance                          Dinki RA

Amstedan                                     Gelewarr                                   Njie-O-Njie

Japan         

For more information log on www.okodrammeh.com