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Articles tagged "mali" Music ReviewJayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko: Africa to Appalachiaby Deanne Sole[2.Oct.08] :. The kora, with its lacelike and intricate patterns of notes, is the more attention-catching instrument, and you could easily forget that this album is a partnership and start to think of it as a Mansa Sissoko project.  Music ReviewVarious Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of Maliby Deanne Sole[9.Sep.08] :. An album that is paradoxically almost redundant and almost perfect. PopMatters Pick Music ReviewDee Dee Bridgewater: Red Earthby Will Layman[11.Dec.07] :. An American jazz singer ventures to Mali and achieves an African/jazz meld of the first order.  Music ReviewBassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Segu Blueby Deanne Sole[12.Nov.07] :. If Kouyaté is trying to turn himself into the Diabaté of the ngoni, an innovator who takes ancient instruments and tunes and moves them forward, then he's going about it in the right way. PopMatters Pick Music ReviewTinariwen: Aman Imanby Deanne Sole[16.Mar.07] :. Tinariwen plays rock guitar with a rangy American sound, broad and lazy and slow.  Column: Global Beat FusionDesert Tranceby Derek Beres[8.Dec.06] :. These are the sort of flowers that bloom in the Sahara Desert: thumb pianos, distorted amps, muddy blues, and traditional chants. Tartit: Abacabokby Deanne Sole[9.Nov.06] :. Comparisons between Tartit and the better-known Tinariwen seem inevitable, but, really, there's no reason why one should be confused with the other, or why you shouldn't like both in different ways. Tinariwen: Amassakoulby Gypsy Flores[5.Jan.05] :. Although Halloween night was cold and cloudy in Santa Cruz, the desert winds blew in soft and sultry toward the Kuumbwa Jazz Center to quite possibly one of the finest concerts of the year of 2004 in... Various Artists: Festival in the Desertby Gypsy Flores[13.Jan.04] :. More than anything else, the Festival in the Desert is a symbol of unity and peace between nomadic tribes. The Tamashek of northern Mali and Niger, who had been warring for years, had recently burned... Tinariwen: The Radio Tisdas Sessionsby Barbara Flaska[17.Jan.03] :. This debut album by Tinariwen, also known as the Tuareg Rebel Blues Band, can seem the antithesis of Western pop music, even that generated by the engines currently driving the world music markets. |
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