MALVERN FRINGE ARTS
P R E S E N T
H É L É L É

Afro Jazz & Forest Rhythms

plus Transcendance

Friday 21st December 2007
doors open: 8pm

 Tickets £8
Available from GREENLINK
(opposite Malvern Library)

Malvern Youth Centre
Albert Road North
Great Malvern, WR14 2YH
( map )
00295 hits since February 11 2008
H É L É L É
Playing around the world, on a journey that has taken him from Cameroon, through France and Italy,
to the UK, Alphonse Daudet Touna now lives in Bristol, where he has formed a band with some of
the city’s finest session and jazz musicians.

He plays a balafon (an African marimba) he made himself. The rich balafon melody creates a style of
afro jazz through a mix of forest rhythms such as Assiko, Bikoutsi, Makouné, Makossa and Bolobo.

Hélélé concerts are spontaneous and lively, full of vibration and energy, and elevate the crowd through
the body language of dance, and great solos, weaved in a framework of rare grooves and percussion.

In Hélélé, Alphonse is joined by:
Jeff Spencer (bass), Matthew Jones (drums),
Lisa Cherian (percussion) Neil Smith (guitar)
and James Gardiner-Bateman (alto sax).

His songs bring messages of peace, non-violence and anti-racism.
Stories of migration and asylum.
Themes of safety and security in the many places people find themselves living.

"Most impressive of all, was Alphonse Daudet's Hélélé Afro-Jazz Band, with Alphonse's rippling Balafon (xylophone) feeding off a throb of tight percussion to launch James Gardiner-Bateman's alto sax. It was great dance music, great jazz and great fun all at the same time." - 'Venue' magazine - Bristol (of Ashton Court appearance).

Visit www.helele.co.uk for downloads and more info.
also http://www.myspace.com/helele



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