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FRANCOIS ESSINDI is an actor, dancer, storyteller and musician from Cameroon. A
leading percussionist in his native country, Essindi
is renowned for his powerful onstage energy crafted
with his delicate phrasing and touch.
A storyteller from the Bulu world, François Essindi is a creative in the truest sense,
who never stops exploring and studying traditional ways of writing alongside
developing new ways to touch an audience with the magic of African rhythms.

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Ess'Indie:

Regarding his music, Essindi never cuts off of the intiatic. He always goes for music which is moreless sacred, these which are limit close to trance connected to something else. From his band's traditional name "Otoulbaka" in Cameroun to his actual show, Abakuya, interactive, related and sung where come together like a succession of a cosmogony a wide range of items and percussion from the ngom-djembe-toronto (long drum born of Essindi's inspiration & self made Man …)

Snail shel, pygmy flutes, sanza, mvet… Essindi never sidetracked. Even when he composed very succesfull for the singer Donny Elwood, when he could be tempted to do it it on an easier way.

Essindi will stay with the depth of the thousand entries, sour critics on the leaders, on modernity, about the insatiable will of the Human struggling for more, on the complex rythms and polyphonies of the forest. Harps, shells, mvet all the "sui" percussions come between the tale without never turning it delinquent.

It's not a matter of virtuosity, the technic serves the played message, told, sung, satirized.

On the end, stays from Essindi and his performance an incredible communication strength, this all through his very original personality and his self-made instruments and material, looking like it came straight from Ancient times, from Thèbes…