When you mix Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Cuba and Australia, you find yourself with many cultures. We represent Africa, sure, but also we represent diversity. That is the essence of Ausecuma Beats. We want to come together, to bring all people together to share the knowledge of what we have learnt.
We all see the hard work that lies ahead in the future. It’s not easy, and we all have different ways of thinking. But there is also something we all share, and that is humanity, and family. We have to teach our children, to help them on their journey.
This album can be defined by the song Tombo. It’s about giving respect to your teacher. All the knowledge we bring to this album has come from someone who in their turn gave it to us. If you like the music, you hear it, you dance, great! But remember, someone created this, they gave it to us, and now Ausecuma Beats are giving it to you. So we dedicate this album to our teachers.
The name of this album is Musso; it means woman. We want to dedicate this album to those who gave us life. It doesn’t matter how strong we are, how tough we are, or how lucky we are in the chances we have been given. There is always someone who is worrying about us; there is no-one who can be thinking about us more than our own mother. So this album especially is dedicated to the women in our lives, and is sending respect to all women around the world.
- Boubacar Gaye, Melbourne
1. Sallier 04:46
2. Bala (feat. Horatio Luna) 04:07
3. Dream Come To Me 05:39
4. One More Time 03:45
5. Life is a Mystery 06:52
6. Mozambique 05:27
7. Tombo 04:18
8. Yarra 05:04
Luke Koszański - guitar, piano on 2 + 3
Horatio Luna - bass on 2
Amadou Suso - kora on 5
All songs written or arranged by Boubacar Gaye & Ausecuma Beats, under exclusive license to Music in Exile.
Ausecuma Beats are Boubacar Gaye, Mohamed Camara, Rodolfo ‘Panga’ Hechavarria, Bassidi Koné, Will Larsen, James Jablonka, Evan Tweedie and Byron Goodwin.
Luke Koszański - guitar, piano on 2 + 3
Horatio Luna - bass on 2
Amadou Suso - kora on 5
Tracks 1, 4, 6, 7 + 8 recorded, mixed and mastered by John Lee at Phaedra Studios, Coburg, during 2020-21.
Tracks 2, 3 + 5 recorded by Enrico Fattori and James Mannix at Gavin Gray’s Piano World, Reservoir, 2020. Mixed and mastered by John Lee at Phaedra Studios.
Front cover painting by Natalie Cassar, used with kind permission of the artist.
