Diya Faso - Dounuya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RH9t8QX2dU
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Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra
https://amf.didiermary.fr/symmetric-orchestra-toumani-diabate/
Toumani Diabaté‘s Symmetric Orchestra released “Boulevard de l’Indépendance” in 2006.
Nick Gold and the World Circuit team started recording a three-part series called “The Hotel Mandé Sessions,” at Bamako, Mali’s Hotel Mandé.
In July 2006, after “In the Heart of the Moon” and “Savane,” [...]
#AfroCuban #BurkinaFaso #CoteDIvoire #Guinea #Kora #Mali #Ngoni #Senegal #Global
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Volta Jazz – Wêrê Wêrê Magne
https://amf.didiermary.fr/volta-jazz-were-were-magne/
“Wêrê Wêrê Magne” by Volta Jazz can be found as part of “Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta“, released as a 3-disc, 37-song box set. This album was nominated at the 2018 Grammys for Best Historical Album and Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package. […]
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"Thomas Sankara playing his red strat into a Peavey amp."
https://imgur.com/gallery/thomas-sankara-playing-his-red-strat-into-peavey-amp-vfGZCtC
Baba Commandant – Juguya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/baba-commandant-juguya/
Baba Commandant est un personnage atypique et respecté de la scène Burkinabè, une sorte de punk hardcore et militant pour la musique traditionnelle mandingue.
Né Sanou Mamadou à Bobo Dioulasso en 1973, il intègre comme danseur une troupe traditionnelle de son ethnie Bobo en 1981. De 98 à 2010, il est chanteur dans plusieurs groupes […]
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Amadou Balaké – Taximan (n’est pas gentil)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amadou-balake-taximan-pas-gentil/
The Golden Voice from Burkina Faso in a track that has become a “classic”: Taximan (n’est pas gentil).
Like the previous post (Maitre Gazonga), most of this music was recorded in Abidjan during the 80s, where so many musicians from various countries met and worked together, creating a giant & rich melting pot of music […]
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From the vault: 2022
Africa comes to Real World: revisiting albums by six legendary artists
https://realworldrecords.com/features/long-reads/africa-comes-to-real-world-revisiting-albums-by-six-legendary-artists/
https://realworldrecords.com/news/new-reissue-series-africa-sessions-at-real-world-out-this-june/
#Africa #RealWorld #AfricanMusic #Tanzania #BurkinaFaso #Morocco #Nigeria #Senegal #SierraLeone
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Amadou Balaké – Super Bar Konon Mousso
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-bar-konon-mousso-amadou-balake/
Although the video says it was recorded in Lagos in 1978, the reality, as Discogs states and as many musicians and bands did at that time, is that Amadou Balaké (or Ballaké) from Burkina Faso gathered musicians in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Viva Africando
https://amf.didiermary.fr/viva-africando-album-2013/
¡Viva Africando! ¡Viva! (2013)
Africando’s 8th (and last) studio album, this is the first not recorded primarily in New York. This time the Africando masterminds, producer Ibrahima Sylla and arranger Boncana Maïga, bring New York’s top Latin musicians – led by pianist Oscar Hernandez – to Paris. There they reunite with the group’s vocal stars, […]
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Kanazoe Orkestra - Ankaben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60egUVfaRh8
4th album "BalaBeatz" in May
More music: https://amf.didiermary.fr/kanazoe-orkestra-folikadi/
Zögö Tchiende · Kaito Winse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipQ48b-AQ_E
From Kaito Winse's 2nd album "Reele Bumbou"
https://kaitowinse.bandcamp.com/album/reele-bumbou
Kamele N’goni…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kamele-ngoni/
J’assiste depuis un certain temps à l’éclosion “soudaine” dans le monde musical, d’un instrument hautement traditionnel, voire mystique, le Kamele N’goni (ou Kamale Ngoni).
Cet instrument traditionnel fait partie d’une […]
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Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band – Sonbonbela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/baba-commandant-mandingo-band-sonbonbela/
Je vous ai déjà présenté Baba Commandant dans un précédent billet. Sonbonbela est le 3ème album du groupe Mandingo Band, enregistré fin 2022 au Burkina Faso. […]
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Burkina Faso’s President Thomas Sankara and Fela Kuti during the Panafrican Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 1987.
Bobo Yéyé – Belle Epoque in Upper Volta
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bobo-yeye-belle-epoque-in-upper-volta/
Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta is a compilation available as a 3-disc, 37-song box set by archival label Numero Group.
Burkina Faso was called The Republic of Upper Volta. Then came Thomas Sankara. During this period of cultural revolution, in the ’60s and ’70s, the nation exploded with new bands and sounds, […]
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