Farida Amadou

Farida Amadou (b.1989) is a self taught bass player based in Liège, Belgium. The electric bass is her main instrument since 2011. In 2013, she has started to play a lot of different musical genres, including blues, jazz and hip-hop. Soon Farida started to dive into improvisation music, and got rapidly identified by local collectif and musicians. After a year as bass player in belgian punk band Cocaine Piss, Farida decided to focus on her solo improvisation practice and collaborations with musicians like Steve Noble, Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, Floris Vanhoof, Julien Desprez among other occasional featuring such as Mette Rasmussen, Linda Sharrock, Chris Pitsiokos, Eve Risser, Alex Ward, Jerusalem in My Heart,…