New Music From Mande Traditional on Calabash Music

Salieu Suso

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Mamady Ijalit Keita

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Idrissa Soumaoro

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

The musical credentials of Idrissa Soumaoro are impeccable. Having learnt his trade with Les Ambassadeurs with Salif Keita in Bamako, he has been a force within Malian music for a number of years, re

Mamadou Diabate

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Mamadou Diabate, master kora player from Mali, West Africa.

Vieux Farka Toure

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Since his infancy, Bouriema “Vieux Farka” Touré has been enamored with the music of his father, Ali Farka Touré. He grew up both in Mali’s capital city, Bamako, and in his father’s home-town of Niafu

Mory Kante

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Heritage and birth Mory Kant頩nherited the griot tradition from the jalis of Mande. At its height during the reign of Sundiata Keita in the thirteenth century, the African empire of Mande stretched

Marabi Africa

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Marabi is the independant label created in 2002 by Christian Mousset, director of the Festival Musiques Métisses d'Angoulême in France.The festival, place of exchange and discovery, is widely opened to urban popular musics from the African Continent, Indian Ocean, the Caribbeans, America. Marabi is mainly a discographic extension of this event. On the same artistic line, the label puts upcoming artists forward as well as patrimonial leading figures. Marabi is the name given to the South African Jazz born in the townships of the thirties.

Baye Coly

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Baye Coly from Senegal and his sax are dedicated to women. Baye Coly stops playing when the hundred of women of his village who accompany them is tired.

Jaliba Kuyateh

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Jaliba Kuyateh plays the Kora since he was five. He has established himself as the foremost "Cultural Ambassador of The Gambia".

Frikyiwa

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:14 -0500

Frikyiwa (the name of a steel key from Ghana) is a record label dedicated to Sub-Saharan Africa, and was created by Frederic Galliano in 2000.