Such a complete track in terms of the musicianship and the passion conveyed. Beautiful vocals and song construction... wow!

🥶Icecold goosebumps running down my spine - this music helps to sirvive the desert heat ☀️

I feel! Your voice arouses emotion in the listener. Even in those with little to no understanding of the language. Vieux, much love from Boston

Kaouding Cissoko-Senegal-Mauritanie

off the album "Kiriké" by Kassé Mady Diabaté 
(P)2014 NØ FØRMAT!

Preorder on iTunes : http://bit.ly/1sRC8jf

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TOUR DATES 
21/11 Paris (FR) - Festival Africolor
23/11 London (UK) - Purcell Room - London Jazz Fest.
26/11 Amsterdam (NL) - BimHuis
27/11 Gröningen (NL) - Oosterport
28/11 Utrech (NL) - Rasa
29/11 Brussels (BE) - Muziekpublique – Théâtre Molière
30/11 Nijmegen (NL) - Music Meeting
02/12 Paris (FR) - Café de la Danse

Ko Kuma Magni

Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze - Sira

puppet prod cranes

Rebel - Quirk

Taken from album "Jardins Migrateurs" (by Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko - to be released 13rd of nov 2015)

SOUTOURO (Le secret du singe / The Secret of the Monkey)

Tu penses que tu es le plus grand, Oh non tout ce qui est debout tombera un jour !. Soutouro décrit l'action d'aider une personne dans le besoin, mais en restant discret et humble. C'est le secret du singe

You think you're the greatest, oh no everything that is standing will fall one day. Soutouro describes the action to help a person in need, but remaining discreet and humble. This is the secret of monkey




Soutouro - Ablaye Cissoko & Constantinople - Jardins Migrateurs - 2015

Majid Bekkas , Joachim Kuhn et Ramon Lopez

Congo Mboka Kitoko

Voix Juslin Likaka et Patricia Mvumbi Bakezy
Guitares: Alexandre Bellando
Percu: Thibaud Rancoeur / Antoine Villette

Enregistrement/Arrangement Antoine Villette 

Red Room Records / Baklawa music 2016

Congo Mboka Kitoko

Taken from the album "Matchowé"
Seminal Manding-Jazz session from the leading saxophonist of Guinea’s golden age. 
Recorded in 1991 and unavailable on vinyl until now, “Matchowé” is one of the most important “Afro Jazz” sessions recorded - the culmination of a lifetime’s work investigating the intersection between the American jazz tradition and the traditional rhythms of Guinea. 

Drawing influences from Charlie Parker and John Coltrane and blending them with the rhythms of the Soussou and Bagas ethnic groups of Guinea, Momo 'Wandel' Soumah (1926-2003) created a timeless sound over a 5-decade career that still resonates today. 
Starting out playing the banjo in regional orchestras before moving to Conakry and teaching himself to play the clarinet in 1951, he came to the fore as part of the successful band Keletigui et ses Tambourins in the 60s - part of President Sekou Touré’s mission to revalorize traditional Guinean music by blending it with (similarly-communist) Cuban rhythms for the state-run Syliphone record label. With the beginning of the second Guinean Republic in 1985, Momo brought his life-long love of jazz to the traditional rhythms he had spent so much time researching. 

Matchowé is not the first time this musical mixture had been attempted by Momo – he played and important part in the seminal 1976 “Musiques sans Paroles” album on Syliphone, Guinea’s state-funded record label – but it is perhaps his defining statement.

Matchowé

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Afro blue - Momo Wandel Soumah

Jaliya Mouta (Stockholm-Dakar.2011)

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.


10 Vieux Farka Toure-Ay Bakoy

Six Degrees Records produces and markets accessible, genre-bending records that explore world music traditions, modern dance grooves, electronic music, and overlooked pop gems. The label’s catchphrase, “everything is closer than you think,” is a real reflection of Six Degrees’ commitment to different styles of music that appeal to a curious and increasingly sizable audience.

10 Vieux Farka Toure-Ay Bakoy

Six Degrees Records

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