Bassekou Kouyate at the Streatham Festival 2008

Worldsounds@St Leonards - Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba at the Streatham Festival. July 12th 2008.

The ngoni is one of Africa's secrets still to be discovered. It is the key instrument for the griot culture. Unlike the kora whose history goes back only a few hundred years, the ngoni has been the main instrument in griot storytelling way back into the days of Soundiata Keita (the grave of Sundiata's grandmother who died in the 13th century is near Garana). The repertoire Bassekou plays is from the region of Segu, the heart of Bambara culture. Unlike mandenka griot music, Bambara music is pentatonic in nature, a music as close to the blues as you can get in Africa. Extracted from.. out | here rec

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[Neffstradamus]

sounds amazing, I love it!!!

[al9irch]

Great art !!!!