SUN BLUES - Hassan Elmalik

Blues Music on the Sudan Pentatonic Scale –
On The Oud Through the World.

Solo-Performance
& Line-up:
Hassan Elmalik – Voc, Oud, Comp – Sudan
Binizion – Bass, Comp, Prod – Ethiopia
Sebastian Medina – Guit. – Chile
Lucas Cuadra – Drums, Cajon, Congas
Regis Molina – Sax, -Cuba
Ali Guma – Bongos – Sudan
Solo-Performance & Band

SUN BLUES represents the deep heartbeat of Africa where the sun never hides.
The virtuoso on the oud comes from Omdourman, the heart of Sudan, where the Blue & White Nile meet and the blues was born. He combines musical currents from different continents and epochs and developed his own musical genre between Africa, the Orient and Europe on the traces of the Sudanese tradition with avant-garde arrangements.
The cultural heritage unmistakably mixes the lively multicultural everyday life with the shadowy features of the Afro-Blues and the archaic melancholy of sunken powers of the old kingdom of Kush in Sudan. His instrument is small, but the cosmos it creates is as infinite and legendary as the millennia-old events along the Nile. (for the leaflet)
In the 90s he played with the reggae band “Culture Roots”, tours with Mohammad Alamin and Abdelaziz Almubarak, numerous concerts in Yemen at Sanaa University, Netherlands, UK and in the “National Theater of Omdourman”, the largest concert hall in Sudan well-known Sudanese artists, such as with Attomat. 2005-2009 head of the music department at the radio station “Khartoum FM” (kfm89).