Bassekou Kouyaté : discography
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Album : Segu Blue Year : 2007 |
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News about Bassekou Kouyaté
WOMEX Announces Second Set of Showcases Selected for 2008 Conference
Berlin, Germany - WOMEX organizers announced today the second list of artists selected for the 2008 edition. WOMEX is the largest international conference dedicated to all aspects of world music, including its renowned showcases, panels and workshops, a trade fair and lots of networking opportunities.
WOMEX 08 Showcase artists:
- Astillero (Argentina)
- Aurelio Martinez (Honduras)
- Bassekou Kouyate& Ngoni ba (Mali)
- Beats in the Heart of Orient (Iran/India/Greece/France)
- Cimarrón (Colombia)
- David Walters (France)
- DJ Grace Kelly (Brazil/Germany)
- DJ Ishtar (Iran/The Netherlands)
- Enzo Avitabile & I Bottari (Italy)
- Kalman Balogh Gypsy Cimbalom Band (Hungary)
- Les Amaz...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2008-07-23 16:07:38.0
Various Artists
The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali (World Music Network, 2008)
Lately Malian musicians have cut a powerful swath through the music scene. With artists like Bassekou Kouyate, with his recent BBC World Music Award win, or Amadou and Mariam's hit album Dimanche à Bamako or the following the late Ali Farka Toure built on his sh...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2008-06-07 08:45:58.0
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Pick Up Two Awards at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008
Last week, on 10 April 2008, at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008 winners announcement ceremony held at London's Dingwalls, Bassekou Kouyate was declared 'Best African Act' and made a surprise appearance to pick up the award. Segu Blue had already been announced the winner of the 'Album of the Year' Critics Award in December 2007 beating strong competition by Andy Palacio's Wátina, Orchestra Baobab's ...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2008-04-14 12:36:29.0
Blues: Back to the Source, with Otis Taylor and Bassekou Kouyate at Barbican in London
London, UK - Two fascinating musical projects which explore the roots of the Blues from America to Africa as parf of Barbican's Contemporary Music Programme Spring 2008. Blues: Back to the Source, with Otis Taylor and Bassekou Kouyate will take place Monday, 28 April at 8pm.
Award-winning blues banjoist Otis Taylor's new live project and CD Recapturing the Banjo is a musical voyage which celebrates the one instrument to survive the Atlantic slave trade¬, the banjo, which thus become one of the most popular and distinctly American of instruments. Originally played by slaves who built banjos out of scrap materials in an attempt to recreate the We...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2008-04-12 14:15:54.0
Kouyate wins world music awards
Mali's Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba are the big winners at the Radio 3 Awards for World Music.
Source : news.bbc.co.uk | 2008-04-11 13:44:42.0
BASSEKOU KOUYATE
Ngoni virtuoso Bassekou Kouyate is part of an strong line-up for the annual Festival in the Desert, north of Timboctou beginning on January 10th.
Source : mondomix.com | 2008-01-08 18:11:17.0
Sauti za Busara World Music Festival Announces Headliners for 2008 Edition
Zanzibar, Tanzania - The fifth edition of the Sauti za Busara music festival will take place in Old Fort, Stone Town, 7 - 10 February 2008. Admission is free to all each day before sunset.
The confirmed line up includes forty groups from East Africa and beyond: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba (Mali),
Winners of BBC World Music Awards Album of The Year 2007. Doubly nominated for Best Group (Africa) and Best Newcomer in BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards 2008.
Malouma (Mauritania) is genre-bending and provocative, the mystical voice of Mauritania spent August and September 2007 at
Number 1 in World Music Charts Europe. ...
Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-12-14 13:16:04.0
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Enthrall Audiences and Critics Across Europe
Earlier this year Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba from Mali released their debut album Segu Blue to exceptional critical acclaim. This summer they toured Europe for the first time and have no doubt established themselves as one of the most exciting live acts of the moment - and not only within the World Music genre. Amongst their many performances in Europe was the famous Roskilde Festival. While performing at the La Mar de Músicas Festival in Spain, Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour joined them on stage (see attached photo).
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Source : worldmusiccentral.org | 2007-09-01 03:10:43.0
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Segu Blue
Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso of the ngoni , approximating the larger kora in sound but with a tougher, more percussive edge.
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Source : Topix.net | 2007-03-28 09:27:51.0
BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ
Bassekou Kouyaté and his Ngoni Ba group bring out a superb debut album rooted in the home region of the ngoni player, “Segu Blue”.
Source : mondomix.com | 2007-03-14 20:31:49.0
Bassekou Kouyate - Blue Like a River to a Desert
The ngoni, the small plucked lute said to be a forerunner of the banjo is most often found taking a support rôle to the guitar or kora. But it wasn’t always thus, and the world’s leading exponent has just released a new album that aims to bring the instrument — and the Bamana tradition from which it hails — firmly back centre stage
Source : fly.co.uk | 2007-03-10 11:03:22.0
