PREMIERE ANTHOLOGIE DE LA MUSIQUE MALIENNE
L'ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTAL
Médaille d'or au festival culturel panafricain d'Alger
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FIRST ANTHOLOGY OF THE MUSIC OF MALI
THE ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTAL
Gold medal at the pan-African Cultural Festival at Algiers
Musicaphon, 1971, BM 30 L 2504
Produced by the Malian Ministry of Information, this wonderful collection gathers six albums all recorded in mono. The number four features the Ensemble Instrumental of Mali whose role is to support different female singers : Nantenedie Kamissoko, Saranfing Kouyaté, Wandé Kouyaté, Mogontafé Sacko, Djelimadi Diabaté and Orakya Koiaté. The orchestra is big with four kora, six ngoni, three balafon and two drums. The Malian state had a real policy about the building of a malian nation after the independance in the sixties. A lot of groups were set up and used to participate in contests in Mali or elsewhere.
Musicaphon had a superb catalogue and this anthology well-known to the connoisseurs is one of its gems. Texts in English, with translation of the lyrics (+ French and German).
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