As
Amadou Bah, then 'chef d'orchestre' of
Super Biton once told me, you can't expect to remain true to your culture if you go and live somewhere else. He was talking about Salif Keita... But by this standard
Abdoulaye Diabaté is a shining example of an artist who has stuck by his
roots. He still lives in
Koutiala, which is somewhere between Ségou and Sikasso.
And although he
moves with the times (i.e. records mainly in Europe), he still plays the Bambara rhythms of his native region.
This is a cassette from the 1980s, when he was still recording in Mali. The sound quality may be less than perfect, the music amply compensates this.
EDIT June 10, 2013: the link has been updated.
This is a cassette from the 1980s, when he was still recording in Mali. The sound quality may be less than perfect, the music amply compensates this.
3 comments:
Superbe!!!!
I like it so much.
Thanks, again & again
Fantastic the Koutiala band, will not have the information of staff in the cassette?
In the cd Makan are three themes of the Koule-Star, but only include the musicians of the Paris recordings.
Thanks really a world service.
Sorry, there are no names on the cassette. But it's the same band as on the cassette starting with 'Bobereni'. Do you know that?
Nowadays, Abdoulaye plays with a lot of members of his own family.
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