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Artist:	SATA, KOKANKO
Title:	Kokanko Sata
Label:	ASTRALWERKS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ASW 73919CD

"When Blur/Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn flew to Mali to record his Mali Music project, amongst the West Africans musicians who joined him for the recordings was a strikingly tall woman who was regarded as a master of the n'goni (the traditional African hunter's harp). Her name is Kokanko Sata and her skill on the n'goni is all the more striking not only for it being one of the most difficult instruments in the world to play, but because Sata is the only woman known to play the n'goni in Mali, where women are strongly discouraged from being musicians. Sata's fame has also spread for being arguably Mali's first feminist performer, by being the only woman to sing the traditional hunters' songs as well as having raised some controversy with her own feminist compositions. It is little wonder why Damon Albarn wanted to release this debut album from this tradition-breaking performer who has earned the nickname 'the hunter's heroine'."

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