Ndjaro and Poyi the African Blues

[WhatsTheTimeMrsWolf]

shut up granny his voice sounds good with the african music :D

[mooglebee4]

its not often you see 15000 views and no dislikes. good work

[DavidF89999]

Kouyate looks so elegant whenever he plays.

[leftysergeant]

The blues guitar is just a guitar played like an ngoni. The vocal style is also lifted from the African tradition. Perfect pitch is less an issue than phrasing in both the blues and in the style of the djeli (griot.) The djeli is more a story-teller than a musician. The same could be said of a really good blues artist.

[luvureally]

@leftysergeant "The vocal style is also lifted from the African tradition." Style was not "lifted", it was brought to America by African captives and passed down to their descendants.

[leftysergeant]

@luvureally It has been incorporated into other forms of music which white Americans have come to think of as their own invention. There are even some hill billies who think their ancestors invented the banjo, whereas we know it is derived fromm the akonting.

[jsproule73]

this is amazing, a combination of many and yet, really gets your attention, makes you happy - wished I could be there to enjoy the music and people.

[onswolltv1]

if it is the blues it is also country music to

[onswolltv1]

this is not the blues lol



[worldfullofcunts]

@onswolltv1 If you cant here blues in this, you dont have ears.

[HABIBOB]

Big Salam 

[ttpdoan]

Feel good tune, great Bassekou Kouyate

[moderadonna]

Grandma, didn't want you coming in there, messing up the blues by rapping. LOL!

[NAGANATH]

@moderadonna true, true.......Grandma didn't like that. She had to set 'em straight......lol

[snhue]

geil

[SmilleAtMe]

I've seen Bassekou and his band last year in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and his concert was one amazing musical feast.

[gummo79]

the "rapper" is papa dee.

This clip is from a swedish documentry called " papas kappsäck"

[friendofthedevil]

wow...this is so cool! There's Bassekou Kouyate's music, and his people's language and singing, there's the guy who's visiting and rapping, there's the woman with a shirt that says "jazz"---and probably every one of these genres of music has influenced eachother in all directions! so neat...

wish I could speak one of the languages and understand what they're saying.

[12barsoul]

the music sounds great. reminds me of the southern acoustic blues in the US

[stumblingjoe]

Awesome. Is this part of a documentary? I want to see it. I saw Ngoni Ba at the Barbican in London.

[reebeeking]

grande Bassekou!!!