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SAMBA TOURÉ
On 11 August 2012, J3ZZ performed as violinist alongside Samba Touré & AZALAI (MALI) at Sziget Festival’s World Village / Afro-Latin Stage in Budapest — a 90-minute concert bringing together desert blues guitar, ngoni, calebasse, tindé, and violin in a spontaneous cross-cultural jam.
Samba Touré is a guitarist and singer from Timbuktu, Mali, heir to the griot tradition and one of the defining voices of the Malian desert blues lineage. Performing under the AZALAI banner — the cross-cultural initiative that also underpinned the Festival au Désert/presenze d’Africa editions in Florence — this encounter brought together Malian and European musicians in the spirit of open improvisation and genuine cultural exchange. For J3ZZ, it represents a direct continuation of the collaboration begun at the 2011 Festival au Désert with TARTIT, and forms part of the broader AZALAI – Laboratoire Nomade network (EU Culture Programme).
