Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Title: I Speak Fula Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Next Ambiance Original Release Date: 1/1/2010 Re-Release Date: 2/2/2010 Genres: International Music, Pop, R&B Style: Africa Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 098787200126 |
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 | Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba I Speak Fula Genres: International Music, Pop, R&B
Malian maestro Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso picker and visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music. Bassekou's intrument, the ngoni, is a "spike lute" and an ancestor of the banjo. ... more » |
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Product Description Malian maestro Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso picker and visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music. Bassekou's intrument, the ngoni, is a "spike lute" and an ancestor of the banjo. Kouyate leads his band Ngoni Ba, the first-ever group built around not one but four ngonis-all played by members of his family. "I Speak Fula" builds on the artist's previous album and guests several pan-Malian notables, Toumani Diabate, Kasse Mady Diabate, Zoumana Tereta and Vieux Farka Toure. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThoughts of a Fula J. W. Bradford | Boston, MA | 03/09/2010 (4 out of 5 stars) "The nicest thing most people can think to say about my musical tastes is they are eclectic which generally means they don't like what
I'm playing but they don't want to hurt my feelings. So you've been warned. As to this album and Bassekou Kouyate I say play on. Since King Sunny I have had fascination with African rhythms. I find this album fully satisfies that fascination. Bassekou can get more out of the simple ngoni than Mark Sandman could get out of a one string bass (and, to be clear, I loved the music of the Sandman). The shear energy and love of music that this album represents is fresh and familiar. For me it takes a little getting used to but the more I listen the more I hear and I like what I hear. Give it a chance, you won't be sorry." |
