“To the encounter between peoples, to those who dig to sow, to those who seek for love, to those who travel for life”. It is the dedication of the band "La Maschera". They along with Laye Ba traveled this overwhelming journey in the name of friendship.
Naples and Dakar come together with a strong emotional and musical glue. Between the notes you can see a cheerfulness that smells of melancholy.
A people who know how to grasp the positive side. Despite the circumstances that make us see Senegal as a state with an unstable equilibrium.
Reception in Senegal
Before living the experience in Senegal, this was just a rumor, just imagination. The welcome that our Italians have received by bringing their musical instruments and the desire to know is moving. A new culture has materialized into reality, setting aside any expectations. This new perspective on the world saw them right away, members of a new warm family. Laye Ba, a Senegalese singer traveling to Italy, illustrated the corners of Africa to the Neapolitan band, with whom he also related musically during his journey, but what remains most impressed is the meeting of souls.
"I'll come looking for you"
“Te vengo a cercà” is the single shot between Naples and Dakar. Testimony of the feeling of love that breaks down the barriers of distance, physical, cultural and linguistic. The friendship that goes beyond the borders to have the effective meeting between people, the learning of idiomatic phrases, gestures, habits as well as traditions, the exchange of ideas and opening up to different lifestyles by comparing their own experiences.
The mask and Laye Ba, who under the same sun, as they sing themselves, survive the difficulties that life offers, whether it be Naples or Dakar, keeping an invisible thread that binds them constant.
They have thus brought back to Italy what is only a fragment of Senegal by sharing emotions with their fans trying to convey with music a part of the strong experience and the new world they have entered. Dedicated to those looking for love, to those who travel not fearing confrontation with people.
