Rating: 73.33
Genre: Worldbeat/Afro-Pop
Folila (which means music in English) started as two albums of the same material. "Same songs, tunings, and tempos...with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Santigold, Theophilus London, members of TV on the Radio and Antibalas, the Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, and Bertrand Cantat. The other was a Malian offering, cut in Bamako with master musicians, including Bassekou Kouyaté on ngoni, Zoumana Tereta on sokou, and Toumani Diabaté on kora, to name a few." They ended up blending it into a single release with the western and African instruments combined. The songs are sung in English, French and Bambara.This is just a lot of good music from a married couple with a fascinating back story (see below). To get a taste, click the song titles below for a link to the full songs on youtube.com:
- Dougou Badia, featuring Santigold
- Wily Kataso featuring feat. Tunde & Kyp of TV on the Radio (this is the official video)
Mariam Doumbia was born in Mali in 1958, became blind at the age of five and taught music and dance at Mali's Bamako Institute for the Young Blind. Amadou Bagayoko was born in Mali, in 1954, began his musical career in 1968, became blind as a teenager due to a congenital cataract, and attended the school where Mariam was teaching. Amadou & Mariam met in 1975. In 1980, the pair married and decided they would make a good collaborative musical team. Over the next five years, they performed in their home country. In 1985, the two toured out of country for the first time. Their first major label release wouldn't come out until 1999. They've released six more studio albums since then.
No comments:
Post a Comment