Trigmatic, others perform in Italy

Performing at Sanlorenzo Marcato during the final seminar of Project BOEMI, the group through a dynamic interplay of audio and visual modalities, showcased how music moves through emotional and perceptive responses as they flowed freely with each other.

With Mavis Sintim-Aboagye (vocals), Fatima Pérez Robledo (piano), Miguel Almeida (bass), Miguel Ruiz de Elvira (guitar), Helene Tungelund (vocals), Cecilia Begueria (violin) Jris Jugo (cello), Peter Suwalski (drums) and Pablo Barianga Blanquez (keyboard), the multi-national group swayed the audience with its culturally linked style as cheers erupted among the evening revellers.  

Comprising Blues/Hiphop tunes from Trigmatic, Highlife traditional Ghanaian songs from Sintim-Aboagye, traditional Danish ballads from Tungelund as well as improvised rhythms from the Portuguese and Spanish musicians, the group attested that lyrics and beats from diverse cultures can tightly fit into each other. 

BOEMI (Building Our Employment skills through Music Investigations and New Media) is an innovative capacity-building project involving five partners: Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo “Danilo Dolci” (Italy), Crossing Borders (Denmark), IYEC (Ghana), Jeunesse En Action “GNO FAR” (Senegal) and Asociación para la Integración y Progreso de las Culturas Pandora (Spain).

The project’s aims include growing youth self-esteem and feeling of belonging to society, increasing the confidence in their “unique selling points” and transforming their interest in music into employable skills. 

It also intends to empower organisations working for the youth, developing new working methods, tools and materials based on non-formal education and experimenting with music as a tool for teaching.