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01. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Tabali te
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02. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Bassekou
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03. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Jonkoloni
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04. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Juru nani
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05. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Mbowdi
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06. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - The River Tune
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07. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Andra's Song
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08. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Ngoni fola
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09. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Banani
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10. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Bala
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11. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Segu tonjon
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12. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Sinsani
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13. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Lament for Ali Farka
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14. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Segu Blue
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ARTIST
KOUYATE & NGONI BA, BASSEKOU
TITLE
Segu Blue
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
OUT HERE RECORDS
CATALOG #
OH 007CD
OH 007CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
10/9/2007
2007 release, restocked. Major U.S. tour in progress now.
Segu Blue
introduces the first solo album from Malinese
ngoni
player,
Bassekou Kouyate
.
Ngoni
is the Bambara name for an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa that is plucked with the thumb, much like a 5-stringed banjo. Bassekou was born in a village called Garana about 60 kilometers from Segu, in the remote countryside on the banks of the Niger River. He was raised in a traditional musical environment, his mother a praise singer and his father and brothers exceptional
ngoni
players. He moved to Bamako when he was 19 years old where he met the young
Toumani Diabate
. By the late 1980s, Bassekou was part of Toumani's trio and they recorded their first albums together,
Songhai
and
Djelika
. Bassekou has collaborated with many musicians in and outside of Mali. He played in the
Symmetric
trio with Toumani Diabate on
kora
and
Keletigui Diabate
on
balafon
. He was part of the
Kulanjan
project recorded with
Taj Mahal
. He is one of the key musicians on
Ali Farka Toure
's posthumous album
Savane
which was released July 2006. Now he has put together his own band:
Ngoni Ba
; the big
ngoni
: Mali's first
ngoni
quartet. The
ngoni
is one of Africa's still-undiscovered secrets: it is the key instrument for 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
Sundiata Keita
. 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 -- music as close to the blues as you can get in Africa.
Segu Blue
features artists
Kassemady Diabate
,
Lobi Traore
,
Lassana Diabate
and singer
Zoumana Tereta
. By the way, there is no
kora
or
djembe
on the album. Taj Mahal describes Bassekou as "
a genius, a living proof that the blues comes from the region of Segu.
"
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