TEDxBristol 2011
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Atto Mul is an untrained musician and artist. Beginning in rural Zimbabwe in 1999, he has worked as a stone carver living in South Wales, South America and other African countries. For company during this solitary work he wrote songs that after returning to Bristol in 2009, have found an audience.
ABOUT THE PERFORMER:
Of African and European origin, Atto bridges race and culture but a non-creative past and exclusion from both sides of his make up has formed an all-inclusive inspiration.
In 1999 I found myself on a beach in Mozambique. I say found but I was lost geographically, personally, I was alone and it was raining. As if to put a message in a bottle, I put pencil to paper and a song emerged, my first – ‘Ancestors’. As I wrote an unmistakable calm came over an inner war that had raged life long between my cultures, races and their callings. I kept writing songs simply for companionship that I played to my guitar style (that naively attempts to make up for having no other musicians!) but it took a passing to make me acknowledge I had no audience and would take these creations home unless I set them free.
Atto performs his music for a street audience and acoustic venues where he’s recognised for the unique percussive guitar style he’s developed, for the depth of his lyrics and the idealistic vision that runs irrepressibly through them.
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