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October 08, 2004
Friday Mp3
Reaching out into the Mp3 blogsphere, for your Friday drive time.
From West Africa Benn loxo du taccu comes a beautiful, & unaccompanied, piece by the great kora player, Toumani Diabaté. Son of West Africa's greatest Kora player, Sidiki Diabaté. I first heard Diabaté on New Ancient Strings (Hannibal Records), a strictly kora album that he did with Ballaké Sissoko in '99.
I was ab·so·lute·ly mesmerized, totally enraptured by this polyrhythmic string instrument. The influences and intersections with electronic music are too numerous to recount. Toumani Diabaté has two previous albums available on Hannibal, Kaira and Djelika. Both are highly reccommended. In 2001 Ballaké Sissoko released, Deli, a solo album on Label-Bleu. I find it a little too distracted by its Afro-Pop elements. Give me just the kora, plain and simple. Finely represented with this mp3 below.
Click here to listen: Toumani Diabaté - Jarabi
Posted by jmarston at October 8, 2004 12:01 PM