Tag: Mali
-
More stunning musicianship from Mali’s Ballaké Sissoko – Nø Førmat! share new video from ‘Djourou’ album – with Segal and Messina helping to pay tribute to composer, Hector Berlioz
Enlighten yourselves and listen to another track from the Djourou album by Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko – here on Jeu Sur La Symphonie Fantastique, Ballaké is joined by cellist and collaborator Segal, with clarinettist Messina, for a re-working of the Berlioz piece of the same name. Suggested by the Berlioz Festival to mark the…
-
Ballaké Sissoko & Sona Jobarteh release ‘Djourou’ – the Malian kora master teams up with one of the leading players from The Gambia – the title track from his new album, out April on Nø Førmat!
Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko releases the title track of his forthcoming 11th album today – Djourou is due for rescheduled release on April 9, via Parisian label Nø Førmat! – home to Oumou Sangaré, Blick Bassy, Mélissa Laveaux. Title track Djourou – available now as a single release – sees Sissoko duet with leading female kora…
-
Mowgan completes trio of electronic albums that harness sublime vocal talent and musicianship via Mali, Benin, Nigeria, NYC and France on Mow Records
Mow Records drop their third album L’enfants De Kita – all produced by label owner Mowgan and this time featuring the vocal talents of Fanta Sayon Sissoko from Mali. The album was recorded in Toulouse where Fanta is based, she is a singer with a musical family – her father played guitar and ngoni for…
-
‘The Golden Voice Of Africa’ Salif Keita returns for farewell album of innovation and tradition
Salif Keita – aka ‘the Golden Voice of Africa – returns for his 14th studio album Un Autre Blanc on February 1st, 2019. A three track single – Bah Poulo/Diawara Fa/Itarafo is out now. It follows a six year break for the Malian star and he is joined by luminaries such as Beninoise singer Angelique Kidjo, Parisian MC…
-
Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet drop chart topping debut ‘Ladilikan’ next week
The debut album Ladilikan by Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet will be released on World Circuit Records on Friday 15th September and is already being tipped to be the transglobal LP of the year. The video to the collective’s single has already shown their exquisite sound and the fusion of Malian griot and contemporary classical…
-
Sorry Bamba’s ‘Du Mali’ LP is reissued by Africa Seven
The second LP of one of the most pivotal figures in the history of Malian music – Sorry Bamba – is being reissued this month by Africa Seven. His work spans five decades and Mali’s cultural traditions and new musical styles that arose during Mali’s post-Colonial period. Bamba was born in 1938 in Mopti, dissected…
-
From Mali – Awa Poulo’s rare modern take of Peulh music for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Out today, ANOTHER treasure from the Awesome Tapes From Africa label. This sounds wonderful. Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania. On the LP Poulo Warali: “She and her band combine the hallmarks of Peulh music—warm flute floating over cross-rhythmic n’goni (lute) riffs and resonant…
-
This is Leila Gobi, supreme songstress of Mali
Leila Gobi is a singer from Menaka near Gao, a rural area in Eastern Mali in the midst of the Saharan desert. Clermont have released her third LP and distributed more widely after her first two albums were available in her homelands. This video sees her in Malian pop mode, but her LP is sounding…
-
Group Bombino on tour
Superb performers from Agadez, Niger, touring around Europe. Featuring members of fellow Tuareg band Group Inerane. Their music consists of guitar-based political protest songs and jams of the Tuareg people’s rebellion against the governments of Niger and Mali. Strongly recommended. Tour details
WORLD TREASURES MUSIC 