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- Genre: International
- Style: Africa
- Label: Cantos / Frochot Music
Classic cuts from Mali's Ministry of Information's house band.
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We Say...
This is the best of all the reissues from the original, 1971-73 formation of Mali’s highly influential Rail Band, which featured future superstars Mory Kante and Salif Keita. Guitar maestro Djelimady Tounkara had recently joined, and Kante, having replaced Keita, was coming into his own as a lead singer. “Walenumalömbaliya” builds around Tounkara’s crisp, tuneful riffing, full of the sweetness of Mande music and the piquant tang of jazz-rock. “Mamadou Bitiqui” floats ethereally between 4/4 and 6/8 time, and Kante’s vocal sears. The set is stylistically varied, moving well beyond the band’s traditional base in Mande music. “Jirikan” is a brooding, pentatonic 12/8 piece; “Mariba Yassa” nods to James Brown’s “Sex Machine” even as it adapts a melody from Wassoulou music. There are echoes of Congolese music, and even the Nigerian Afrobeat sound, with Kante blending griot gut cry with soul wailing, and even rapping a little, and Djelimady stretching out with the wah-wah pedal.
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| 01. |  |
Walenumalömbaliya |
13:29 |
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| 02. | |
Balakoninfing |
10:00 |
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| 03. | |
Mamadou Bitiqui |
8:14 |
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| 04. | |
Jirikan |
7:38 |
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| 05. | |
Mariba Yassa |
5:06 |
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| 06. | |
Dugu Kamelemba |
11:48 |
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| 07. | |
Karitea |
5:17 |
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07 Total Tracks, 61:32 Total Length
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