Art Residency: Music in Exile
![Music in Exile at the Old Carpet Factory portrait by Ekaterina Juskowski](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-22.jpg)
CATEGORY
Launching New Project #LiveatOCF
YEAR
2024
GRANT
Creative Australia: International Engagement Fund
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
During their Art Residency at the Old Carpet factory in November 2024, Music in Exile invited seven musicians from different parts of the world to write and record and album together.
Boubacar Gaye (Senegal/Australia), Amadou Suso (Gambia/Australia), ‘Magou’ Seny Samb (Senegal/France), Seydou Diabeté (Burkina Faso), Gordon Li (Australia/UK) and Harry Ling (UK). The sessions was produced and engineered by Stefan Blair (Australia, Good Morning band).
Greece is a central point between nations in Europe, Africa and Asia, and often sees the convergence of many international migration routes. The island of Hydra itself is rich in cultural history and has been a hub for international artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Artists like Bouabcar, Amadou, Magou and Seydou have lived through experience of the process of migration, and what it means to leave home in search of new opportunities.
![Music in Exile at the Old Carpet Factory portrait by Ekaterina Juskowski](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-6.jpg)
![Music in Exile at the Old Carpet Factory](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-3.jpg)
![Music in Exile at the Old Carpet Factory](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-8.jpg)
![Gordon Li](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-7.jpg)
![Stefan Blair Good Morning band Old Carpet Factory](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-4.jpg)
![Gordon Li Old Carpet FActory](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-5.jpg)
![Hydra Island Greece](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-2.jpg)
![Image](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-1.jpg)
![Hdra Island Greece](https://oldcarpetfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Music-in-Exile-Hydra-11.jpg)