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The design of a new instrument began in 1999. After plenty of adjustments and tests, the prototype was finally created in 2004, nearly 5 years after he got the original idea. The instrument allows for the sixteen strings to vibrate properly recreating the sensations associated with
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In 1997 he went on a tour around West Africa with his recently formed quartet. There he discovered new sounds – from
Ouagadougou (Wassa club), Ghana, Niger to Mali and Burkina Faso. He settled in Bamako for a year where he recorded music with some local musicians.
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societies. During the years 1987–1989 Liebeskind formed and developed a group with
African members under the name of Djambadon. The group included a singer and political refugee Koté Carvalho as well as Erik Truffaz, Philippe Ehinger, and Serge Zaugg.
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Glasgow (Scotland) to whom he communicated all the details and instructions of what the new instrument should incorporate. Combining the rosewood from Mozambique and Siberian pine, ebony, in about a year the Sit-Guitar Moon was created.
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in 1997. As a guitar player he began to contemplate how with his personal experience he could express this new sound.
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and producer. His musical influences vary from Jazz,
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