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...Farka Touré & Toumani Diabat?...
...first experience with Toumani Diabaté was, to say the least, bittersweet. I came home with a brand new Taj Mahal album as my treasure of the day, eager to hear my hero sing “Queen Bee” in the fashion I have grown to love. Suddenly, Diabaté tinkled in on his kora one second into the familiar introduction, dashing my hopes, delicately; I had bought a collaborative album...
...HOGON: A fixture on the Bamako circuit for over a decade, Le Hogon, tel: (223) 223 0760, is managed by the amiable Moussa Yaffa, a DJ who mixes techno with the kora, or traditional harp. The club's best performers include Toumani Diabate, considered the world's greatest kora player, and the 22-piece Symmetric Orchestra, whose complex, swirling melodies are produced by the balaphon (a West African xylophone), djembe, kora and guitars...
...griot night when a beer costs only 90?. tel: (223) 675 5933 LE HOGON: A fixture on the Bamako circuit for over a decade, Le Hogon is managed by the amiable Moussa Yaffa, a DJ who mixes techno with the kora (traditional harp). The club's best performers include Toumani Diabate, considered the world's greatest kora player, and the 22-piece Symmetric Orchestra, whose complex, swirling melodies are produced by the balaphon (a West African xylophone), djembe, kora and guitars. tel: (223) 223 0760 DJEMBE: Rough-edged Djembe may have been around longer than Le Hogon...
...story of Mali's ascent out of poverty begins at 6 a.m. on March 26, 1991. Then Lieut. Colonel Amadou Toumani Toure--called A.T.T. by everyone--went on the radio to announce that he had just arrested his commanding general, the nation's President, and taken control. "I said that as soon as minimum security was established we would organize elections," recalls Toure. "And as soon as the elections were held, we would go back to our barracks...