Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba

Bassekou Kouyate annd Ngoni Ba live at the Rio Theatre Santa Cruz CA 03-19-2010 - A small video collage of short clips from throughout the show. Bassekou Kouyate is like the Jimi Hendrix of Ngoni; he is incredibly amazing! From the roots of his African Culture to the Blues of Europe and America this man plays his three stringed hand made acoustic Ngoni with the skill and energy rival to all of Rock music's greatist guitar hero's!

The following text is copied from:
http://www.outhere.de/?p=1206
(where you can purchase his new CD "I Speak Fula")
"From his early days in Bamako when he was playing in a trio together with Toumani Diabate and Keletigui Diabate till today where he is pursuing his own career, Bassekou has transformed the traditional music of the ngoni into the modern world of today. With his band ngoni ba he has created a new lineup as a quartet with a bands style of playing. The ngonis they play are still acoustic as in the old days, but Bassekou invented a bass ngoni even lower in pitch than the ngoni ba (low ngoni), and added extra strings to make their instruments harmonically more flexible. In the process Bassekou opened up the magic of an age-old music that he and his band have been playing for their entire lives, to people all over the world. Bassekou Kouyate has now become the ambassador of the ngoni. He has brought this ancient instrument back to where it used to be: to the center of Malian music."

If you enjoy this video and this music then I strongly urge you to buy his CD's, the music of Bassekou Kouyate is truly unique and amazing. Check these links for more information:
http://www.outhere.de/?p=1206
http://www.myspace.com/bassekoukouyate

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bassekou
• Kouyate
• West
• Africa
• Mali
• Griot
• Ngoni
• Ba
• Tama

[leftysergeant]

Utter genius. No question about it.

[rockabillydj]

KILLER! Wonderful, great!

[rockabillydj]

Jimi of Ngoni! Absolutely KILLER!