Showing posts with label Bassekou Kouyate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bassekou Kouyate. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2010

Bassekou Kouyate : I Speak Fula

music OMH review

The quartet play with a virtuosic style that also proves extremely hypnotic. Even when taking a back seat to the calming vocals of Jamana Be Diya or Torin Torin, the continuous thrumming in the background is a thing of beauty, providing energy and momentum to the music but also existing in a trance-like state of consonant harmonies.

The instrumental episodes are more improvised, very much of the moment,


I remember seeing this performance on Jools - excellent






Sunday, October 25, 2009

Malian master

LastFM

Taj Mahal describes him as a genius, a living proof that the blues comes from the region of Segu. Bassekou Kouyate is one of Mali’s best-known Ngoni players. He has collaborated with many important traditional musicians of his country as well as international such as Carlos Santana, U2 among many many others


I saw him on Jools this week - joyous