Salif Keita – Nou Pas Bouger revisité

https://amf.didiermary.fr/salif-keita-nous-pas-bouger-revisite/

2 versions du célèbre titre de Salif Keita, une chanson qui traite de l’immigration. “Nous pas bouger revisité” par des groupes de Rap.

Ce titre est repris en 2006 avec son compatriote et maître du N’goni, Moriba Koïta et le groupe afro-rap sénégalais Daara J.

#Mali #Ngoni #Remixed #SalifKeita

Anansy Cissé – Aïgouna

https://amf.didiermary.fr/anansy-cisse-mali-desert-blues/

Anansy Cissé re-works the West African Desert Blues genre with a new, agitated attitude and souped-up guitar distortions.

Featuring the soku fiddle playing of Zoumana Tereta and accompanied by n’goni, bass and calabash, Cissé’s sound harnesses musical traditions and spits it out anew, taking us into “Mali Overdrive” (2014).
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#DesertBlues #Mali #Ngoni

Nfaly Diakité – Mogote Diabeye

https://amf.didiermary.fr/nfaly-diakite-mogote-diabeye/

“Hunter Folk Vol 1: Tribute to Toumani Koné” is the first solo album by Nfaly Diakité, recorded in Bamako in June 2020. On the album, Nfaly is the only singer, providing backing vocals and playing the donso ngoni and keregne. The album is a tribute to the storyteller and poet Toumani Koné, the greatest donso […]

#Mali #Ngoni

Super11 – raw Desert Blues

https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-onze-raw-desert-blues/

If you like pure raw desert blues, this video is for you, as it’s a perfect origin for so many contemporary artists from the Sahel region.

“Super Onze are the real roots of desert blues – Mali’s equivalent of Congotronics. This is how it all sounded before the electric guitar came in to the equation: […]

#DesertBlues #Mali #Ngoni #Niger #Tuareg

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Siran Fen

https://amf.didiermary.fr/bassekou-kouyate-ngoni-ba-siran-fen/

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba’s fourth album “Ba Power” (2015) is a striking, career defining record marked by mesmerizing songs, razor-sharp riffs and full-throttle emotions. Following two years of worldwide touring for the much heralded Jama Ko album, Bassekou’s band, Ngoni Ba, has turned up the volume and dynamics significantly [...]

#altRock #Mali #Ngoni

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Jama Ko

https://amf.didiermary.fr/ngoni-ba-jama-ko-bassekou-kouyate-2013/

After his celebrated debut album “Segu Blue” and the Grammy nominated follow up “I speak Fula,” hundreds of concerts all over the globe, performing as headliner in the AfroCubism project, Bassekou Kouyaté released “Jama Ko” in 2013, a cry for tolerance and peace. […]

#Mali #Ngoni

Al Bilali Soudan – Djaba

https://amf.didiermary.fr/al-bilali-soudan-djaba/

Al Bilali Soudan are griots from the Tombouctou (Timbuktu) region of Mali. This is a family orchestra of fathers and sons, uncles and cousins, led by Abellow Yattara, a master of the tehardent – the Tamasheq word for the three-stringed n’goni.Yattara has been a prominent figure for over 40 years. He played on Ali Farka […]

#DesertBlues #Mali #Ngoni #Punk #Soundcloud #Folk

Kanazoé Orkestra – Folikadi

https://amf.didiermary.fr/kanazoe-orkestra-folikadi/

Seydou Diabate dit “Kanazoé”, né au Burkina Faso dans une célèbre famille de griots est un multi-instrumentiste.

Il joue les balafons pentatoniques dioula, sambla et toussian, le balafon diatonique (djelibalan ou balafon guinéen) ainsi que le kamele n’goni, une harpe pentatonique.

#Balafon #BurkinaFaso #Kora #Ngoni

Section Jazz de l’Orchestre National du Sénégal – Xanju Ou Tutu

https://amf.didiermary.fr/section-jazz-orchestre-national-senegal-xanju-ou-tutu/

An homage to Miles Davis, by “Jazz On”, part of Orchestre National du Sénégal (ONS) in 2012.

If you’ve never seen/heard a N’goni played in a Jazz Ensemble…

#Jazz #Ngoni #Sénégal #AfroJazz

Baba Commandant – Juguya

https://amf.didiermary.fr/baba-commandant-juguya/

Baba Commandant est un personnage atypique et respecté de la scène Burkinabè, une sorte de punk hardcore et militant pour la musique traditionnelle mandingue.

Né Sanou Mamadou à Bobo Dioulasso en 1973, il intègre comme danseur une troupe traditionnelle de son ethnie Bobo en 1981. De 98 à 2010, il est chanteur dans plusieurs groupes […]

#BurkinaFaso #Ngoni