Toumani Diabaté - New Ancient Strings
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Free Music Notes for New Ancient Strings
Free Music Review: Heavenly !
Hit: 5 Stars
this is one of my favorites. needless to say, it is beautifully ritualistic in the light of tranquility.Free Music Review: This should be 5 STARs only
Hit: 5 Stars
Only 4.5 stars? What? Come on? This album is one of the most serene, tranquil, and masterful African albums I have heard. And I personally own over 120 albums from the continent. This is one of my favorites. Why? Well, the moment I turn this on, I am instantly transformed underwater to a surging seaweed garden. The seaweed is going back and forth slowly and in unison. I am submerged, weightless and floating. (Yes, I am sober.) The mood created by the instruments and musicians in this album is incredible. Very few albums affect my mood the way this one does. And I can listen over and over and over and it does the same effect everytime. I wouldn't be surprised if the reviewer at Amazon.com gets this album and listens to it while he/she is posting my review. This really is a 5-star work and only that. You will not be disappointed with owning this.Free Music Review: Beautiful beautiful!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is really a gem. Toumani Diabate and Ballake Sissoko have created a masterpiece. The thing that i like best about this recording is that these are extended kora duets recorded in a natural acoustic. They were actually recorded in a marble vestibule of a government building in the Malian capital! The echo generated by the stone walls adds beautiful warmth to the sound, which is something that really sets this album apart. Both Toumani and Ballake showcase their amazing playing skills, and together they make an excellent team. Good work, excellent album!Free Music Review: Enchanting plucked strings from the land of Timbuktu
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an album of music played on the kora, a "harp-lute" with 21 strings in two parallel rows. Toumani Diabate is the world's formost kora player, from Mali--a musically rich land in Africa. He plays here in a duo with Ballake Sissoko, a longtime friend and musical associate. There is nothing else on this album--just the two koras. The sound is utterly captivating.At first, you might feel that the songs are somewhat similar to each other. But the pleasant plucking sounds certainly had me listen again and again. I then noticed the jazzy sound of the first cut "Bi Lambam" This is a song that dates back to dancing girls and musicians in the court of the kingdom of Mali and it doesn't take much imagination to see cool, shaded stone courts and gently twirling dancers and their seated musician accompanists, entertaining a king and his courtiers. However, Diabate plays a contemporary style and this accounts for the hint of a modern jazz mood in some of the songs.
My favorite cut, however, is the second one on the album "Salaman" which is a love song and is so mysterious and haunting. The minor key and rocking rhythm are hypnotic.
This album was recorded live at the Palais de Congres in Bamako, Mali. The marble hall lends that "palace of ancient kings" sound and this is a live album, recorded in one take, which always lends a sense of intimacy and reality to any recording.
This album is great for relaxation, party or dinner background music, yoga or for relaxing kids before bed. It is also just great to put on any old time and feel, perhaps, like a courtier in the exotic palaces of old Timbuktu. The album grows on you. I just love it.
Free Music Review: Untitled
Hit: 4 Stars
Toumani Diabate is regarded as the master of the Kora(a sort of harp built around a gourd which produces a singularly sweet,sharp and quite remarkable tone).He is joined here by a second kora player to produce a modern take on what is viewed as the classical music of Mali.This music takes time to grow on you ,or maybe you just need to take the time to listen.But it has the power to remove you from your place and time and take you somewhere else.This is music as uncomplicated as the wind.