Casamance: The Soundtrack of a journey

2016 90 min Spain Paloma Zapata

2017 - MMF – Monopol Music Festival

Synopsis

Jairo Zavala, a Spanish singer and songwriter with African and Latin-American roots and member of the indie-rock band Calexico, is invited by Angel Carmona to participate in a series of radio interviews. As an omniscient narrator, Carmona’s radio voice strings together Zavala’s adventures through Senegal on the trail of a particular griot: Lamine Konte?. On this journey from Dakar to Casamance Zavala seeks the inspirations to compose the soundtrack of the journey itself.

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