After leaving Senegal and traveling around the world, Omar Niang arrived in Mallorca loaded with his instruments in 1986. Since then he has continued to make music: from the long ago Wonkhaï Palma to the present Wa Koul Diop, a project made up of musicians arrived from all over, that Omar has trained and introduced in afrobeat, funk, jazz and African popular music. With them he has taken the streets of Palma as a natural setting to show and share his music.
Xalam, the title of his new album, is the name of a small string instrument from West Africa, but it is also the first plural person of the Catalan verb xalar (to enjoy). A record made of songs sung in Wolof, Catalan, Castilian, Mandinga, English, German, Russian, French, Italian ...
Omar Niang (xalam, charango, guitar and voice), Diego Esposito (bass), David Soldavini (drums), Rogerio Santos (percussion), Sara Minguella (piano), Andrew Moreno (guitar), Pablo Demanger (trumpet), Davide Bora (saxo), Pedro Rainer (flute) and Mar (choirs).
The concert is part of the Cançons de la Mediterrània festival.
