Gabon · Music
Lambarena: Bach to Africa
Pierre Akendengué, Hughes de Courson · 1995
This collaboration grafts Bantu liturgical chant onto Bach cantatas, staging the colonial encounter as a contrapuntal negotiation rather than a conquest, where neither voice is allowed to absorb the other. The work parallels Pontecorvo's score with Morricone, in which European orchestration and Algerian percussion refuse to resolve into a single key.