Showing posts with label Mali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mali. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Musique du Mali - 1 - Fanta Sacko


Fanta Sacko - Musique du Mali - 1
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - BM 30 L 2551 - P.1971




Side A

A1 Jelike jan
A2 Ni Ko ni Kadissa
A3 Tita
A4 Tara
A5 Banankoro


Side B

B1 Kita Jeli
B2 Tubaka
B3 Jimbe wata Dabola
B4 Maliens be di yala.mp3
B5 Kankan Jarabi




Fanta Sacko, vcl
Foussenou Diabaté, gtr
Mamadou Tounkara, gtr


Wikipedia has only this to say:

Fanta Sacko is a Malian musician, whose debut, self-titled LP launched the bajourou music genre. She has helped establish a female singing tradition in Mali, which makes that country unique in West Africa, where female popular musicians are not generally approved of.[1][2]

1. Mark Ellingham, Orla Duane, Vanessa Dowell, ed (November 1999). Africa, Europe and the Middle East. World music. 1. London: Rough Guides. pp. 550. ISBN 1858286352.
2. Gikandi, Simon (2003). Gikandi, Simon. ed. Encyclopedia of African literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 575. ISBN 0415230195. Retrieved 2010-04-14.


Bajourou (meaning 'big strings' or 'big tune') is the name given to a strain of Malian (Mali) pop music usually played at weddings and social gatherings. Though now predominantly electric, its roots were in 60's acoustic music that borrowed patterns from the kora and the donsongoni (a hunting harp/guitar) and transferred them to acoustic guitars. Lyrics moved away from the usual Manding praise songs to more secular, romantic concerns, mainly sung by women like Fanta Sacko who did much to develop and spread the music.

Bibliography
Charry, Eric S. (2000). Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Mali. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Coelho, Victor (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Conrad, David (2001). Somono Bala of the Upper Niger. Leiden: BRILL.
Eyre, Banning (2000). In Griot Time: An American Guitarist in Mali. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Fanta Sacko


Not much to read of biographical information on the web, but then again my good and knowledgeable friend Stefan, at wrldsrv.blogspot.com, who was kind to take the time to make the rip and the great scans, and also painstakingly edited and carefully pruned the files to get them as free from clicks as possible, has this to say:

By the way: most Malian musicians I have spoken with did not know this Fanta Sacko. Some say she must have slept with the producer (or another person in charge) to get this record made. Zani, who been in the business since the early 1960s, was sure she was Guinean, after hearing the record. Flani said it was a teenager girl from a village singing. At least it is certain that she was/is from the south of Mali or the north of Guinea.

Foussenou Diabaté & Mamadou Tounkara


The stringwork by Foussenou Diabaté and Mamadou Tounkara is most enjoyable and I much rather listen to this young girl sing than thousands of other boys and girls that gets recorded, especially as the music and the tradition is often stronger than the individual aspirations.

Anyhow, we all have our own ears, so I'll let you judge for yourself...

I must admit am a terrible "completeness" junkie and even though my collection of records is not small I don't have everything, so again thanks to Stefan for his good help to fill in this lacunae in the catalogue!

I am also hooked on having multiple version rips of course preferably from different copies but also experimenting with post editing. So because of that, I also give you two versions to choose from. The first one is probably more true to the original and may have a better lustre. But for those with a severe allergy towards hiss and clicks the second one may be tried for size.

Personally I just listen to the music and it seems my ears have grown their own filters over the years of listening to old crackly acoustic 78 rpm recordings from China, India and Egypt. The best school for that I think was the old worn Charley Patton recordings I listened to in the sixties.





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Musique du Mali - Bärenreiter Musicaphon Discography

Here is the small discographic entry for the Bärenreiter • Musicaphon series
Musique du Mali

I have no indications that there were any more volumes in this series, but there are at least two other series of music from Mali on Bärenereiter. One that has been published here in it entirety, Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne, and another that seems to be readily available from Global Groove.

Musique du Mali

BM 30 L 2551 - Musique du Mali - 1
Fanta Sacko - La Tradition Epique
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - P.1971

BM 30 L 2552 - Musique du Mali - 2
Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion I
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - P.1971

BM 30 L 2553 - Musique du Mali - 3
Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion II
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - P.1971


Click on the catalogue numbers above to go to the individual posts.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Musique du Mali - 3 - Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion II


Musique du Mali - 3
Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion II
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - BM 30 L 2553 - P.1971



Face A

A1 Da Monzon 6'27
A2 Bakari Jan 7'08
A3 Cimbala Koné 6'15
A4 Dioba 6'50

Face B

B1 Tara 6'55
B2 Maki 6'10
B3 Jonkoloni 6'03
B4 Sarafo 6'29










Musique du Mali - 2 - Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion I


Musique du Mali - 2
Bazoumana Sissoko - Le vieux lion I
Musicaphon - Bärenreiter - BM 30 L 2552 - P.1971



Face A

A1 Sunjata 8'05
A2 Mali 6'07
A3 Yiriba 5'58
A4 Kaba Balla 5'54

Face B

B1 N'Baoudi 6'12
B2 Falla 6'50
B3 Yaoni 5'36
B4 Ladji Mory 6'52



Bazoumana Sissoko, Le vieux lion - 1890-1987

When I was studying in Beijing in the seventies there were several students from Mali there and I have still to see anyone so surprised as the little group of Malian students that passed by my student room and heard me playing my tapes with Le vieux lion. They simply could not walk by and and we became good friends already on the grounds of sharing his music. After that I was always invited to them for tea and music and we all basically had a fantastic time. The stories how some music opened up fantastic new grounds and friendships in my life are so many that they are impossible to recollect. Sharing food and music I think are the best conditions to build any lasting peace among people. I have very little to say about Bazoumana Sissoko and there is very little information on the net. There is a poetic bit to read in the accompanying folder but nothing of real biographical substance. Some short explanations and descriptions of the songs, but that is all, and the same skimpy information is repeated in the volume 2. I wish there were biographical detail, descriptions of the society the music was performed in and more anecdotes shared about this very influencial artist. According to my Malian friends he was both "saintlike" and "demonical" musician. You get the immediate idea that Music is very powerful in Mali. Many of his songs are heard in all sorts of constellations and by so many other musicians and I think listening to his recordings are instrumental to any deeper understanding of the traditional music.

From the worldservice blog:

Very soon in hearing Bazoumana on Radio Mali, Malians knew that an important event had taken place or was taking place, whether it was a day of national celebration or of national mourning.
There is quite a bit more to read there and also some more good music posted at that wonderful blog: The old lion



Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne - 6 - Fanta Damba


Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne 6
- Fanta Damba - La Tradition Epique
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - BM 30 L 2506 - P.1971


Face A

A1 Asumka 5'10
A2 Tara 4'30
A3 Duga 5'40
A4 Miniyamba 5'00
A5 Falike 5'15

Face B

B1 Fanta Damba 5'10
B2 Maki 4'07
B3 Malamine 6'22
B4 Toutou 4'09
B5 Yadale 4'54




Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne - 4 - L'Ensemble Instrumental du Mali


Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne
- L'Ensemble Instrumental du Mali - 4
(Médaille d'or au festival culturel panafricain d'Alger)
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - BM 30 L 2504 - P.1971


Face A

A1 Keme Birama - 6'40
A2 Nana Kadidia - 3'45
A3 Soli - 4'45
A4 Be Togo Gniko - 5'35
A5 Koulou Kalan - 6'20

Face B

B1 Be Taga Nfa Bara - 5'15
B2 Bani - 5'45
B3 Ni Be Nya - 4'30
B4 Mali Sajo - 6'02



Nantenedie Kamikossoko (malinké, A1,A3,B2)
Saranfing Kouyaté (malinké, A2)
Wandé Kouyaté, (malinké, A4)
Fanta Kadialy, (malinké, A5)
Mogontafé Sacko, (malinké, B1)
Djelimadi Diabaté, (malinké, B3)
Orakya Kouyaté, (malinké, B4)
Mali Ensemble vocal (A1,3,5,B)


Ensemble koras

Nantenedie Kamissoko

L'Ensemble Instrumental du Mali


Tata Kouyaté

Brahima Kouyatè, Loutigui Diabaté

Solo Diabaté

Séran Kanouté

Wandé Kouyaté

Loutigui Diabaté

Mogontafé Sacko

Saranfing Kouyaté

Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne - 3 - Le Mali des Sables - Les Songoy




Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne 3
- Le Mali des Sables - Les Songoy
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - BM 30 L 2503 - P.1971



Face A

A1 Tamala
A2 Addina Kadidia
A3 Wahono
A4 Takamba
A5 Tina

Face B

B1 Tandina
B2 Hadeyza
B3 Guitare Maure
B4 Tanganine
B5 Taidouma









Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne - 2 - Le Mali du fleuve - Les Peuls


Premiere anthologie de la musique Malienne - 2
- Le Mali du fleuve - Les Peuls
Musicaphon Bärenreiter - BM 30 L 2502 - P.1971


Face A

A1 Sauvetage - Rescue- Rettung
A2 Sore
A3 N'Nyaro
A4 Tioubou

Face B

B1 Ewli Jambe
B2 Segintere
B3 Tungere
B4 Segalare
B5 Demobe