SUN BLUES – Hassan Elmalik

Blues, Jazz, Pop, Reggae from Sudan
Spotify CDUNITY9/2024
Spotify CD “PEACEFULLY  12/2023
iTunes  + Youtube
Solo-Performance
& Line-up:
Hassan Elmalik – Voc, Oud, Comp – Sudan
Binizion – Bass, Comp, Prod – Ethiopia
Sebastian Medina – Guit. – Chile
Lucas Cuadra – Drums, Cajon, Congas
Regis Molina – Sax, -Cuba
Ali Guma – Bongos – Sudan

Blues Music on the Sudan Pentatonic Scale –
On The Oud Through the World.
SUN BLUES represents the deep heartbeat of Africa where the sun never hides.
The virtuoso on the oud comes from Omdourman, the heart of Sudan, where the Blue & White Nile meet and the blues was born. He combines musical currents from different continents and epochs and developed his own musical genre between Africa, the Orient and Europe on the traces of the Sudanese tradition with avant-garde arrangements.
Traditional Sudanese and Ethiopian rhythms and melodies combined with Jamaican reggae and African blues to create a new, spectacular style.
The cultural heritage unmistakably mixes the lively multicultural everyday life with the shadowy features of the Afro-Blues and the archaic melancholy of sunken powers of the old kingdom of Kush in Sudan. His instrument is small, but the cosmos it creates is as infinite and legendary as the millennia-old events along the Nile.
In the 90s he played with the reggae band “Culture Roots”, tours with Mohammad Alamin and Abdelaziz Almubarak, numerous concerts in Yemen at Sanaa University, Netherlands, UK and in the “National Theater of Omdourman”, the largest concert hall in Sudan well-known Sudanese artists, such as with Attomat. 2005-2009 head of the music department at the radio station “Khartoum FM” (kfm89).
Although he has lived in exile for many years due to the political situation and precarious situation in Sudan, he is also celebrated for his musical ability in his country of origin.

CDs:
UNITY  Hassan’s 2nd album with Binizion, by GenesisMusicEthiopia, 9-2024
Ten diamond works with the aim of unity, peace, happiness, respect, freedom, being yourself and reflecting in Sudanese language and Ethiopian music in multicultural culture.
with Hassan Elmalik – Oud & Voc., Binizion – Bass, Seba Medidna – Guitar, Marta Skraburska – Trombones

PEACEFULLY Debut-Album by AHOI-tunes, 12-2023
“PEACEFULLY was created during the war in Sudan.
I was born with the hope for peace and freedom and life for musicians was very difficult. We built musical instruments ourselves, but it sounded different than on TV… So I traveled through Sudan and neighboring countries to famous artists and enjoyed their professional instruments with Mama Africa’s music in Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mali, Morocco…, my father was an oud player and today I am SUN BLUES. SUN, the Sun is the main element for life. She seems to have a lot of strength and zest for life all year round. The Blues music can be felt dark.” Hassan Elmalik