The Creator Has A Masterplan-Peace (live)-Leon Thomas

Sambara (Habib Koite & Bamada)

Monoswezi’s music sounds fresh and wide-open: traits that owe to the bands marvelously multi-cultural inspirations. Expect gentle mbira, looping percussion, memorable sung melodies, and subtle saxophone

Monoswezi: Regret (re-edit)

Mulatu Astatke Power Agreement (DEMO)

All music & texts ©by Sekou Kouyate
Recorded Mixed & Mastered by Richard Plougmann 
Recorded at Juicyhalftone´s Studio A
Copenhagen Denmark 2014 & 2015
“Atongo” Recorded at Groove House Recording Studio 
Accra Ghana by Francis Kweku Osei 2015
Photos & Artwork ©by Carolina Vallejo 
Graphics by Justin Jones
Produced by Sekou Kouyate & Carolina Vallejo
Executive producer Carolina Vallejo One World
www.oneworldsmusic.com I www.sekoukouyate.com

01 DELA 
02 DINDINYA *
03 ATONGO ** ***
04 GROOVE KORA *
05 FOUTA ** ****
06 EMOURAFAMA **
07 NADE
08 SKA ****
09 DESERT 
06 ASUIRA *
11 DIFICIL * **
12 MOBENY

Sekou Kouyate Vocals Kora Electric Kora Guitar
Sefoudi Kouyate Kora
Mohamed Kalissa Kora
Bouba Kouyate Bass
Mohamed Kaba Drums Calabash
Facinet Sylla Djembe Congas
Francis Kweku Osei Tama Udu Clave Congas
* Sekou Kouyate Guitar Bass
** Francis Kweku Osei Drums
*** Gaddiel Amoah Bass 
*** Carl Amoah Keys
**** Bouba Kouyate Backing Vocals

Mobeny

Funky Highlife

C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 - Asafo Beesuon (Original Version)

Two young people who have fallen in love with one another but their
parents do not approve their relationship because of their social
difference. But their love will win against all odds.

Lead vocal: ALUNE
Bass guitar: ALUNE
Cajon: JOHN GRANCAMP
Guitar: SAMB HERVE
Guitar: FRANCOIS SABIN
Violon: CHRISTOPHE CRAVERO
Celo: VALLENTINE DUTEIL
Percussion: alune
Backing vocals: BRENDA DELLAVELLE
Backing vocals: murielle lefevre


Aminata

LP/CD/Tape/Digital out now on Awesome Tapes From Africa https://nahawadoumbia.bandcamp.com

The famous singer's first record, made following her discovery in a talent competition. Acoustic guitar and vocals. The first in a trilogy of recordings, the third volume of which was the first release for ATFA back in 2011.

Nahawa Doumbia — Sokono Woulouni

A tune by one of the many Nigerian Police bands who recorded Highlife tunes in their spare time. Many learned to play under Benedict Odiase, the composer of Nigeria's national anthem.
This track's from 1973 and taken from Soundway's brilliant Nigeria Special album:

http://www.soundwayrecords.com/catalogue/nigeria-special.html

Asiko Mi Ni, The Nigerian Police Force Band

An Afrologic reworking of the original vocal version of The FELABRATION 2012 theme song. Everybody say Yeah Yeah!!! [Original LP 'MUSIC OF MANY COLOURS', Fela Kuti & Africa 70 with Roy Ayers, 1980]

FELA KUTI & ROY AYERS-Africa Centre Of The World [Afrologic OnDaG Vocal ReTouch]

LP/CD/Tape/Digital out Jan 29 
http://smarturl.it/kanawa

Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the bombastic range of contemporary Malian pop. The beautifully complex musical accompaniment that results is courtesy of the large ensemble she pulled together with producer and arranger (and day one collaborator) N’gou Bagayoko. 

The band features two highly expressive Malian string instruments, the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni, as well as a variety of percussion, drum programming, karignan (a metal scraper) and acoustic and electric guitars. Doumbia’s daughter, a celebrated singer with her own group and busy concert schedule, Doussou Bagayoko sings on “Adjorobena,” a song about patience, tolerance and living in peace. Doumbia weaves together a roadmap of her psyche when it comes to the good and bad life has to offer. She talks about marriage and women leaving home to join another through the metaphor of a tree in the garden; she includes gunshot samples in the song “Foliwilen” to honor the bravery of hunters, soldiers and other courageous people; she uses a bird in “Djougoh” to talk about lazy people; and, in “Ndiagneko” she advises people to ignore critics, just do you.  

Mali has gone through an intense period of regional strife and terrorist incidents over the last ten years and Doumbia roots the album in tragic local concerns with deep global implications. “The meaning of Kanawa is so simple. We see our children trying to cross the ocean all the time. I said that many of our children die in the ocean and some of them die while crossing the Sahara. But I ask them why do they leave their country? They said that they leave because of the family situation or problems like poverty and unemployment. I ask them to stay and work in their country. I call on the UN and African leaders so that we can coordinate our efforts to find a solution, to create jobs for them so that young people stop leaving. That’s why I chose it as the title of my album so that everybody can learn from it and also so that there is a reduction in the number of people emigrating. So that some will hear the message and stay home and grow the land. Leaving is not the only solution. My message is to help the youth find jobs.”

Kanawa

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