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Toumani Diabate

Djelika

  Artist: Toumani Diabate


 
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Mali Music

  Artist: Afel Bocoum & Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabate & Friends

With Mali Music it's possible at last to see how Damon Albarn's foray into Africa has worked out: most members of what Albarn's friend Michael Nyman has dubbed the "world-music police" would probably be happy to give it a qualified thumbs-up. If some of the "Western" tracks are little more than an undifferentiated blur (no pun intended), the echt-Malian ones are a delight.

But it's what lies between that's interesting: what Albarn and his colleagues Afel Bocoum, Toumani Diabate and Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia have achieved is best described as "the music of place". In "Kela Village" you can almost see the celebrations going on amid the chirruping of birds and the croa...

 
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In the Heart of the Moon

  Artist: Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate


 
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Kulanjan

  Artist: Taj Mahal, Toumani Diabate

Perennial blues road warrior Taj Mahal and Malian kora (harp-lute) ambassador Toumani Diabate join forces, blend textures, and intermingle idioms on this cleanly produced 12-song set, recorded in 1998 in Athens. Their common ground is best tilled on "Atlanta Kaira" and the title track, where the plucky filigrees and glittering tone of the kora sound right at home with Taj's darker, barking National Reso-Phonic steel. "Ol' Georgie Buck" and their canny cover of Muddy Waters's "Catfish Blues" are the album's blues banners, which find Diabate's kora delightfully incongruous, while the walking African ballad "Tunkaranke" leans most heavily toward the moth...

 
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Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate

  Artist: Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate


 
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New Ancient Strings

  Artist: Toumani Diabate With Ballake Sissoko

Back in the early 1970s, a recording by kora masters Sidiki Diabate and Djelimadi Sissoko called Cordes Anciennes first brought this rich acoustic music of Mali to the world. More than 20 years later, their sons, the now world-famous Toumani Diabate and the junior Ballake Sissoko, have come together to pay tribute to their fathers with 1999's New Ancient Strings. While many of the songs come from the original repertoire, the music is all modern Mali. Toumani Diabate has toured the world as a soloist, as a member of fusion groups like Songhai (with flamenco fusionist Ketama), and he has incorporated subtle changes into his music that makes it a living ...

 
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Kaira

  Artist: Toumani Diabate


 
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The Mande Variations

  Artist: Toumani Diabate


 
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Boulevard de l'Independance

  Artist: Toumani Diabate Symmetric Orchestra


 
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King of the Kora: An Introduction

  Artist: Toumani Diabate


 
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