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Guarding Kora Tradition [music, mali]
Jan 15^th, 2007 at 11:02pm

from the news, i love the kora & I like his music, He's done pieces with salif k. & ali farka toure , music that's so beautiful & serene. ~peace, bouncing Wink

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Guarding Kora Tradition
Master of the harp carries on legacy of more than 70 generations.

By TODD PITMAN
The Associated Press

BAMAKO, Mali - On a moonlit African night in a leafy open-air bar, kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate is peeling off an ethereal flood of kaleidoscopic riffs from a 21-string cow-skin covered harp like one his forefathers have played - for more than 70 generations.

Past a motley array of modern-day musicians and a phalanx of traditional drummers, a twirling 2 a.m. crowd of Bamako's hippest has come to pay homage to a man many regard as the greatest kora player on the planet.

The music is East meets West, past meets present, a 21st century take on ancient Malian harmonies that smacks of flamenco, Far Eastern strings and the winding legato improvisations of freeform jazz.

For Diabate, the show is much more than just music: it's the preservation of culture and tradition, a way to keep alive the spirit of the defunct Mande empire that once stretched across a vast swathe of West Africa.

Long before the region's history was recorded in books, it was told through a caste of griots, musical storytellers. Seven centuries later, the songs are still sung over powerful rhythms and haunting pentatonic scales produced on traditional instruments like the banjo-esque ngoni, the wooden xylophone-like balafon, and kora players from Guinea to Niger.

"If West Africa was a living being, the griot would be the blood," Diabate says over lunch at his Bamako home, scooping couscous and fish from a silver tray on his Persian-carpeted floor. "As griots, we are the memory, we are the link between society and the past."

Born in Bamako in the mid-1960s - he doesn't know exactly when - Diabate began playing the kora at the age of five.

DISEASE WON'T STOP HIM

Formally educated for only around 10 years, he was debilitated in his youth by a disease that shriveled his right leg and forces him to walk with a crutch. Yet, he went on to stardom, revered by listeners thousands of miles away, idolized at home.

The first kora player to win a Grammy remains humble and infinitely good-natured, never too busy to shake the hand of a fan, even while he's performing.

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from this set, i like 'Mali Sadio'
a few others are online.

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Re: Guarding Kora Tradition [music, mali]
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Re: Guarding Kora Tradition [music, mali]
Reply #5 - Jun 21^st, 2007 at 4:23pm

on a side note-

i luv kora music, there really is a strong, connection, a few articles on the african roots of the banjo, guitar, ngoni, other african stringed instruments & how amazing that it survived in the memory of so many traumatized during the maafa [how to assemble them from what they could find [materials]
stringing them, tuning , putting them together &
teaching others how to play the instrument].

Through mento music & other musical celebrations
It's Simply Beautiful! -- [fr. files saved hard drive, & a few from my cousin/a guitarist for sharing some them with me] i'm posting them before they get misplaced ~peace Wink

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the african banjo

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the africa akonting

Searching for the Roots of the Banjo

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Searching for the Roots of the Banjo, Canadian Musician Jayme Stone Talks About his Recent Trip to Mali

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African Ancestors
Articles Exploring the New World Banjo's African Roots
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from the african american resgistry
The Banjo-an African instrument. .

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a banjo exhibit
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the african akonting

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Banjo Ancestors: The Lutes of West Africa &
Banjo Ancestors: The Jola Akonting

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mali one day on the radio [audio]

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on a program about history of the banjo! [i saw this show - so sue us we luv to watch & enjoy pbs ]

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similar - string instruments africa
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the ngoni

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The Ngoni, the Banjo and the Atlantic Slave Trade lesson plan & links

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[i have wassoulou music, too]

the great sudanese singer's Rasha's brother
Wafir {musician}

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the music of Hassan Hakmoun
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a favorite painting, from the artist h. o'tanner

mento & banjo, jolly boys
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on the great Ali Farka Toure 9 i have loads of his music]

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on sekouba bambino [guinea kora, electric kora]

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habib koite [mali] [i have his music too]

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other images database, america/caribbean
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Re: under me string teng ! [music, mali]
Reply #6 - Nov 5^th, 2007 at 1:51pm

update
beautiful malian guitar music

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vieux farka touré
He was just in concert, Colorado last week, i think...
- but if you have comcast digital cable [for on-demand concerts on east coast]

- There is brief concert {20 min] of ther late Ali Farka Touré's son](playing, this week?)

Vieux Farka Touré - He's baaaad! Grin

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interplay with the guitar fea.in the net clip was quite nice too!)

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bouncing ~peace Wink

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Re: Guarding Kora Tradition [music, mali]
Reply #7 - Mar 28^th, 2008 at 4:55pm

back in the news again, a few articles dealing with the
african origins of the banjo/akonting...~peace Smiley

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a documentary,(bela fleck performed in this area
in the past, an excellent musician)

bela fleck journies to west africa , to learn about the akonting & banjo in the documentary

- Throw Down Your Heart

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fr. the UK chronicle

Banjo players show pluck!

THE distinctive sound of the banjo has a long association with folk and bluegrass music and has led many people to believe that the instrument had an American or European heritage.

In fact, the banjo originated in Africa as far back as the 17th century.

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a past symposium in florida this month

UF symposium explores African roots of the banjo

The banjo, which traces its roots to West Africa, has been a tremendous vehicle of American cultural expression since the mid-1800s. Scholars, musicians and artists will explore the shared lineage of the African and American musical art form March 20 in the daylong “AIM for Africa Akonting” banjo symposium at the University of Florida. The event will be capped with an evening concert featuring national and international musicians, including Sana Ndiaye from Senegal.

The “AIM for Africa Akonting” events, presented by the UF College of Fine Arts Center for the Arts in Healthcare and the University of Florida, celebrate a common heritage by creating a cultural bridge between Florida and the Senegal/Gambia region of West Africa.

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a nice page of a past exhibit -

THE BANJO:FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA AND BEYOND

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Re: Guarding Kora Tradition [music, mali]
Reply #8 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 3:41pm

imho?

music is a truly loved universal kinda language!

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in our music collection we have ( a similar)
Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder
a collaboration . I will have to add this one!

This subject is always very interesting! ~peace

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Stone and Sissoko explore the banjo's African connection

Songs that traveled to America on the slave ships in the 1600s and 1700s, the minstrel music that mixed African tribal origins with European sensibilities, have long been a pursuit of banjo man Jayme Stone.

But after a while, he says, it wasn't satisfying enough to learn just the early New World styles.

"I wondered what the music sounded like before it made it over here," he says.

So last year Stone set out on a seven-week trip to West Africa in search of his modern-day banjo's ancestors. The journey uncovered connections to the Middle Ages and yielded a critically lauded album, "Africa to Appalachia," recorded with Mansa Sissoko, a Malian singer and master of the 21-string kora !

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Africa to Appalachia CD

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an NPR audio program on this subject

Bringing The Banjo From 'Africa To Appalachia'

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if this type of zik it floats your boat?
a good one, to have in your collection

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about the cd
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the artist, the late Ali Farka Touré

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Re:[music mali/africa ] a documentary
Reply #9 - Apr 14^th, 2009 at 11:08pm

enjoy!
on a side note of
( the wicked string "g" music of west africa)
~peace Smiley

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Throw Down Your Heart !

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interview with bela fleck here

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‘Throw Down Your Heart’: Bela Fleck and the rhythms of Africa

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& the duo of Mariam & Amadou has a
CD out

(mali)

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other reference to amadou & mariam's
music.

i luv the selection lahilala

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Reply #11 - Apr 17^th, 2009 at 5:42pm

lovely, audio samples fr. the project
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more on master musican, Toumani Diabate

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