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01. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Kanougnon (feat. Majid Bekkas)
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02. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Deli
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03. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Kanto Kelena (feat. Habib Koite)
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04. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Wele Cuba (feat. Madera Limpia)
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05. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Miri
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06. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Wele Ni (feat. Abdoulaye Diabate)
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07. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Konya
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08. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Nyame
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09. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Fanga (feat. Abdoulaye Diabate)
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10. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Tabital Pulaaku (feat. Afel Bocoum)
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11. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Yakare
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ARTIST
KOUYATE & NGONI BA, BASSEKOU
TITLE
Miri
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
OUT HERE RECORDS
CATALOG #
OH 032CD
OH 032CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
2/1/2019
Bassekou Kouyate
is back on his original label Out Here Records with his fifth studio album,
Miri
.
Miri
is an album about love, friendship, family, and true values in times of crisis.
Miri
means dream or contemplation in Bamana. On
Miri
, Kouyate travels back to his hometown Garana, a small village at the banks of the Niger river. The instrumental song "Miri" captures that feeling.
Miri
talks about Kouyate's mother
Yakare
who passed away. "Deli" is a song about true friendship. "Konya" talks about jealousy a problem that can even destroy families. "Wele Ni" takes you deep into the history of Segou koro (old Segou), once home of the Bamana kings. The song is about a king who thought he didn't need to treat the people around him with respect, and later realizes he is nothing without the people around him. The song features vocalist
Abdoulaye Diabate
and Bassekou playing slide ngoni with a bottleneck. Like Mali music legend Abdoulaye Diabate, most guests on the album are longtime collaborators. Bassekou's friendship with
Habib Koite
goes way back to the early days of
Symmetric Orchestra
. As a trio together with young Toumani Diabate Bassekou played his first concert in Europe in 1989. "Kanto Kelena (She Left Me Alone)" is a song about a man who was left alone by his loved one.
Afel Bocoum
(
Ali Farka Toure
) from the same village Niafunke, sings for peace between the Fula, who herd cattle, and the local cultivators of Mali, on "Tabital Pulaaku". A very special guest is a young
Kankou Kouyate
, the daughter of Bassekou's brother
Fousseyni
who used to play in
Ngoni Ba
-- Kankou can be heard on all of the background vocals.
Michael League
(
Snarky Puppy
,
Bokanté
) went out of his way to add some guitar to the song "Konya". Fiddle player
Casey Driessen
, whom Bassekou met while touring with
Bela Fleck
, played on the folk ballad "Nyame".
Dom Flemons
(
Carolina Chocolate Drops
) plays bones on Bamana classic "Fanga". "Wele Cuba" is an Afro-Cuban jam about Africa's love for Cuban music; Cuba's answer is sung by
Yasel Gonzalez Rivera
(
Madera Limpia
). The album pays homage to two great Malian singers that have blessed quite a number of Bassekou's albums: the one and only
Zoumana Tereta
and the golden voice of Mali,
Kassemady Diabate
. Also features
Majid Bekkas
.
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