Boubacar Traoré

Boubacar Traoré - Duna Ma Yelema - Gigios Edit

Boubacar Traoré - Mouso Teke Soma Ye

Bisimillah, from the soon to be released limited edition 180 gram 12" vinyl, "LEILA" by Leila Gobi.  
Release date is 18 April 2015 in record stores only.

Leila Gobi - "Bisimillah"

04 Sambou De Mande

Joyce Tape - Niman - 07 - Cuilé (avec Boubacar Traoré)

Exclusive Dub Mix of the track 'Pullo'
The original track is featured on the new album Crocodile Blues by Samba Toure.
For more information visit www.worldmusic.net/crocodileblues

Samba Toure: Pullo (Dub Mix)

Book Kraut: tim@the-other-self.com 

The blues from Mali in the club! 

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Boubacar Traoré - Fogniana Kouma (Kraut Remix)FREE DOWNLOAD

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12" Vinyl Available: https://www.bbemusic.com/downloads/awakened-spirit/
Deeply spiritual musician, producer and founding father of 'Ancestral Soul', African powerhouse Boddhi Satva returns with a very special 4 track EP. Having previously released on Louie Vega's 'Vega' label and Osunlade's Yoruba Records as well as running his own 'Offering Recordings', we are delighted to welcome him back to BBE. Full of African and Latin influenced rhythms and powerful vocal performances, 'Awakened Spirit' perfectly reflects Satva's idiosyncratic, mystical approach to music. 

Potent third track 'Benefit' features legendary UK soul vocalist Omar, who simply soars over Satva's blend of African and Caribbean musical flavours. 


Awakened Spirit

Boddhi Satva feat. Oumou Sangaré - Ngnari Konon

Makan « Badjé » Tounkara est un djeli, un griot, petit-fils du grand Djeli Baba Sissoko (1922-2001), qui fut reconnu par  ses pairs comme « chef des griots maliens » dans les années 1990. Badjé poursuit une riche carrière, jouant notamment avec des artistes renommés comme Salif Keïta, Baba Maal, Ami Koïta, Tata Bambo, Kandia Kouyaté ou sa tante Mah Damba. Makan Tounkara est également à l’origine d’une innovation instrumentale, puisqu’il a rajouté trois cordes à son ngoni, le luth des griots monté traditionnellement de quatre cordes. L’instrument est présent, avec de légères variantes, chez toutes les populations mandingues, sous des appellations diverses (koni, kontigo, gambare).

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Mali Denhou

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Boubacar Traoré - Mali Denhou

A new composition, rough mix from studio recording, due for release 2018/2019. Recorded at Peace of Eden Studios 2018.

Issa Sory Bamba - Boro

On Anewal/The Walking Man Tuareg guitarist and singer Alhousseini Anivolla evokes the great African blues masters and blazes a trail through his Saharan homeland.

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Anewal/The Walking Man

This album was recorded in Niamey, the hustling-bustling capital of Niger. As the city hummed with heat and thick dust storms rolled in, Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla and his good friend Michel Tranchet recorded the music heard here. Next, Colin Bass painstakingly tweaked, mixed and cultivated the swinging bluesy sounds with his expert touch. Their careful efforts resulted in Anewal/The Walking Man, a solo album soaked in the spirit of deep desert blues. 

Alhousseini was born in the Saharan desert and is a nomad of Tuareg heritage. He chose the album title Anewal/The Walking Man in reference to his itinerant lifestyle, which has led him across the Sahara and the entire globe as a member of Etran Finatawa. Now on Anewal/The Walking Man, Alhousseini takes centre stage - every work is his own original composition.

Alhous’ sound puts his own spin on the great living tradition, the ‘Desert Blues’. His music explores the intersection between the traditional music of his homeland, and the African-American blues genre that it birthed. His guitar technique is related to the ichumar style, developed during the 1970s by Tuaregs exiled in Libya.

The album’s central theme concerns Alhousseini’s strong connection to his ancestral elders and his community, values that are expressed both lyrically and musically. ‘Emassli Na Taregh’ features a traditional musical bow that Alhousseini feels puts him in direct contact with the ancestors. The title of the track ‘Iblis Odouad’ translates as ‘Demons Are Showing Up’, Alhousseini explains: ‘When the sun is coming down ... you hear all the demons talking at once in different languages. You feel alone, isolated and so homesick if you are not surrounded by your dear ones at this time.’ Again we are reminded that, for Alhousseini home isn’t dictated by place, but only by community and the company of your loved ones. The track opens with a solo guitar figure, which is later joined by a thick bassline and cantering percussion. After over a minute of instrumental interplay, Alhousseini’s vocal enters in a soft, almost hushed tone that conjures up an air of solitude perfectly.

Anewal/The Walking Man is Alhousseini’s diary of his personal journey from the desert, to the city, to the world stage and back again. Enjoy this evocative and gutsy desert blues album from Alhousseini, who is, in his own words a ‘nomad by heart’.

Alhousseini Anivolla: Imoussanan

Come Closer (Stockholm-Dakar.2011)

This track is from the album Dangay (The North) and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/babasalah2

Joyce Tape - Niman - 07 - Cuilé (avec Boubacar Traoré)

Benkadi

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