Really love your songs though i dont undestand the language but it speaks to your heart.

The North needs so many things. The people who are causing problems are from the North. Why are they causing problems wrecking their country? There are no roads. The north is underdeveloped. The north needs everything, all the projects that were started to help us progress have been stopped.&#13;
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Album available From iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tamala/id722299420
Bandcamp: http://amiwassidje.bandcamp.com
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FISF1T4
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Aminata Wassidjé Traoré is a rising voice in Mali. Tamala is her debut album, recorded in Bamako between 2000 and 2008. Born in Diré, near the fabled city of Timbuktu, Ami was raised within northern Mali's rich cultural brew. From an Ethnic Songhai family, Ami started singing as a young child. Her music, like the environment that surrounded her growing up in Diré, near Timbuktu, incorporates various cultures and traditions. On Tamala, an album she self produced with the help of artist Mamadou Kelly (http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.bio/project_id/721.cfm) and arranger Baba Simaga, she sings in Songhai and Tamasheq.

While northern Mali still suffers the repercussions of religious and ethnic warfare, Tamala sends a message of reconciliation and inclusion. Ami believes people can work together for a solution, she sees the vast potential of Mali's diverse north. Moving to the Southern capital of Bamako not only enabled her to develop as a musician, backing up well known artists like Baba Salah (http://www.npr.org/2013/03/21/174416220/baba-salah-a-malian-musician-speaks-to-his-nations-displaced), Khaira Arby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UDecjaj4ek) and Afel Bocoum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afel_Bocoum), it also enhanced her vision of a diverse and connected Mali.

Tamala is considered a modern-traditional album in Mali: it is rooted in northern folk musical traditions, but arranged in a contemporary way. it was conceived locally, for a Malian audience, and shines in its subtle simplicity. This album is also the first collaboration between Paul Chandler's Studio Mali (http://www.studiomali.com) and Akwaaba Music.

Paul set up Studio Mali as a label and artist management company, and has worked with legendary musicians such as Afel Bocoum, Vieux Farka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux_Farka_Tour%C3%A9), Baba Salah, Andra Kouyaté (http://www.afropop.org/wp/3319/3319/), Samba Touré (http://www.samba-toure.com/) and most recently on Mamadou Kelly's album Adibar. Paul also founded i4africa.org (http://i4africa.org/), an NGO whose goal is to preserve traditional music, and provide training in the arts to underprivileged and at-risk youth in Mali.

Aminata Wassidjé Traoré - "Takamba"

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Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Kaira, from In the Heart of the Moon (2005)

Souma Manone, Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze feat. François Verly, from album "Djaliya" (release 13 oct 2014)

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Recorded and mixed in 2014 at Studio de Meudon (Fr), by Julien Bassères.

Ablaye Cissoko : kora, vocal
Volker Goetze : trumpet, bugle
François Verly : percussions

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SOUMA MANONE (Author/Composer : Ablaye Cissoko)

si je pouvais…  If I could…
J’ai la chance d’exercer le métier de mes rêves : sillonner le monde et chanter. Mais je pars parfois le cœur lourd. Je me dis juste « si je pouvais… ». Si je pouvais rester auprès de vous, vous voir grandir, vous entendre rire, sauter à ma rencontre quand je rentre le soir. J’ai le cœur serré surtout quand Marie me regarde du seuil de la porte et qu’elle me dit « Papa, emmène-moi ! ». Si je pouvais… Mais tel est mon sort : partir, arpenter les chemins, faire mon métier, sacrifier à ma passion. Penser à vous me donne du courage et la force de continuer. Pour vous, pour votre avenir. Vous occupez mes pensées constamment, de mon départ jusqu’à l’heure de nos retrouvailles. 
I’m lucky to have the job of my dreams, to travel the world singing. But sometimes I go with a heavy heart. I just say to myself “If I could...” If I could stay with you, watch you grow up, hear you laugh, see you jump for joy when I come home in the evening. My heart sinks especially when Marie watches me from the doorstep and says “Daddy take me with you”. If I could... But this is my fate, Leave, travel far and wide, do my job, sacrifice everything for my passion. I think of you who give me the courage and strength to continue. For you, for your future. You’re always in my thoughts from the moment I leave until I return.




Souma Manone - Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze - Djaliya - 2014

This track was recorded live at Radio Libré in Bamako during the filming of: It Must Make Peace. It features Salif Koné on guitar, and Alou Coulibaly on percussion. Watch the interview at https://youtu.be/g51yPhRBWfo

Rokia Koné | Muso Djalani

Toumani Diabate - Musu Maramba

A fourth track from our recording session with Ali Farka Touré in 1988, while he was still establishing himself on the world stage. He was en route to a tour of the Scottish Highlands, and had a day off while passing through Edinburgh. His road manager, a friend of mine, decided it would be a good idea to arrange a session and see if we could record it. So, last minute I called up some musician friends, and roped in the services of Claude Harper, ex-Abbey Road recording engineer who just happened to have a 24-track mobile. This along with the other tracks on here, is the result. Apparently, Ali was very happy with it and carried the tape around with him for many years! However, his record company was less enthusiastic and ordered us to destroy the master tapes.

 Some years later, this song appeared on the Grammy-winning Talking Timbuktu album with Ry Cooder. Here though, the line-up is, apart from Ali and his percussionist Roger Sisset, 100% Scottish. Me on 2nd guitar, Leading BBC composer David McNiven on keyboards, top Scottish jazz bassist Kenny Ellis on bass, World music afficionado Jim Sutherland on percussion, and former London session-player Mike Travis on drums.

Diaraby - Ali Farka Touré with Jim Condie & Friends, Scotland 1988

Fatoumata Diawara, vocals and guitar with Stockholm Art Orchestra
Nils Berg, arrangements
Stockholm, October 2016

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Live with Sthlm Art Orchestra

Fatoumata Diawara - Timbuktu Fasso

Eghass Malan from the upcoming release of the same name from Les Filles de Illighadad, coming October 28th.

Les Filles de Illighadad - Eghass Malan

Neba Solo - Mussow (from the album Can 2002)

Neba Solo - Mussow

On the road between Memphis & Bamako. The musical merger of Habib Koité and Eric Bibb brings together two soulful histories into a never-before heard guitar sound that is passionate and ebullient. Growing up in Mali, West Africa, Koité is heir to an ancestral knowledge set to song that places him among the most influential voices of contemporary Africa, while Bibb’s lineage in the traditional blues sound has produced an earthy mix of folk and gospel dating back to the work songs of the deep south. Forging a bridge across the Atlantic, Bibb and Koité are two talents too exhilarating to ignore.

This tune is taken from the album: Brothers In Bamako.

Eric Bibb & Habib Koité - Touma Ni Kelen/Needed Time

Vieux Farka Touré's beautiful latest album was recorded as an homage to his homeland. Being that his native Mali has been splintered by territorial fighting between Tuareg and Islamic rebels since January 2012, his new album, Mon Pays, is devoted to reminding the world about the beauty and culture of his homeland.

‘For me it is a statement for the world that this land is for the sons and daughters of Mali, not for Al Qaeda or any militants. This land is for peace and beauty, rich culture and tolerance.This is our heritage, what we must always fight to protect in any way that we can. For me, that means making music that reminds the world of who we are.’

Translating as ‘My Nation,’ this predominantly acoustic undertaking had been planned before the invasions began. Inspired by his work with Israeli pianist and vocalist Idan Raichel, Touré initially went into a Bamako studio to honor the acoustic blues tradition of Northern and Southern Mali. Since that time, Mon Pays transformed into an artifact of cultural preservation.

Two songs on the project -Future’ and ‘Peace’ feature Sidiki Diabate’s kora leading an emotional charge complemented by Touré’s spectacular guitar work. Both tracks represent an important generational "passing of the torch" as Sidiki’s father, Toumani is considered one of the greatest living kora masters and was a close friend of Vieux’s father Ali. Their two records together, In the Heart of the Moon and Ali and Toumani, were awarded Grammies. At the 2011 ceremonies, Vieux accepted the prestigious award for his father, who had recently passed from bone cancer.

Mon Pays is the most mature and lovely record yet from one of this generation's most exciting artists to come out of Mali and one of world music's true rising stars.

Vieux Farka Toure-Future

Mali is full of fantastic musicians and I listen to their music every day. And it gives me so much joy. Malihokan.com and this Soundcloud account is my way of giving something back, spreading this beautiful music and finding new listeners for the not yet well known artists.

Thanks to: Ali Farka Touré for opening my ears to the music of Mali. Magnus MULTIKULTI Sjögren for guidance. MC Talka Touré for inspiration and support. All musicians for participating. Ted Krotkiewski and Robin Cochrane for improving the sound of my recordings. Manfred Schweda (thisfabtreck.com) for letting me use his stunning photography. My family Monica, Rita and Vincent.

And oh, all recordings are copyright protected and may not be used for any commercial purpose.

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