Mola Sylla

Mola Sylla ( born 1956 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese musician.

1987 Sylla went to Europe, where he lives in Amsterdam. He is known as a singer, but also plays African instruments such as the mbira, Kongoma ( a lamellophones from Senegal ), Xalam or Kalimba.

Sylla has worked with a variety of musicians on the jazz of Sean Bergin and Nu Jazz by Saskia Laroo through to improvising music of Tristan Honsinger and cross-cultural projects with which he appeared regularly on the Moers Festival. He is a founding member of the groups Senemali ( where Senegalese musicians work with those from Mali) and VeDaKi (initially: Vershki because Koreshki, where Russian, Senegalese and Indian musicians interact ).

Together with Ernst Reijseger he has created the music for Werner Herzog's film The Wild Blue Yonder ( 2005).