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Год издания/переиздания диска: 2014
Жанр: african folk, classical, world fusion, desert blues, kora duo
Издатель (лейбл): World Circuit
Продолжительность: 00:43:37
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01 Hamadoun Toure (05:19)
02 Claudia & Salma (04:40)
03 Rachid Ouiguini (04:34)
04 Toguna Industries (03:50)
05 Lampedusa (04:26)
06 Bagadaji Sirifoula (05:35)
07 Tijaniya (04:51)
08 Dr Cheikh Modibo Diarra (02:57)
09 A.C.I. 2000 Diaby (04:41)
10 Bansang (02:49)
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Доп. информация: http://soloneba.com/toumani-diabate-african-prometheus/
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Об исполнителях (рус.) | About Artists (ru)
Тумани и Сидики Диабате: эхо семи столетий
Источник: арт-дайджест «Солонеба»
Настоящий гений африканской музыки, один из величайших современных виртуозов игры на коре Тумани Диабате записал в 2014 году диск в дуэте со своим сыном Сидики. Альбом Toumani & Sidiki – это редкий, пожалуй, даже уникальный в своем роде опыт сотрудничества отца с сыном.
Будучи потомком династии гриотов, насчитывающей более семи столетий, Тумани Диабате является хранителем древних традиций западноафриканской народности манде. Он продолжает развивать наследие своего отца, Сидики-старшего, записавшего в 1970-м альбом Ancient Strings, на котором впервые в истории кора звучала, как ведущий, солирующий инструмент. Только в отличие от своего родителя, строго придерживавшегося обычаев национальной музыки Мали, Тумани двинулся дальше. Он познакомил с корой весь мир, расширяя границы звучания своей креативностью и удивительными импровизациями, и плодотворно сотрудничая с исполнителями самых разных музыкальных жанров. За время своей карьеры Тумани успел обзавестись массой преданных поклонников по всей планете, включая даже экс-президента Соединенных Штатов Барака Обаму, который назвал совместный альбом малийского користа с американским блюзменом Тадж Махалом Kulanjan своим любимым диском.
Старший сын Тумани Диабате – Сидики (род. в 1990 г., Бамако) в Мали уже признанная поп-звезда. На родине он считается одним из лучших хип-хоперов, битмейкеров и успешно выступает в дуэте с рэпером Iba One. Но страсть к хип-хопу ничуть не мешает Сидики чтить свое музыкальное наследие. Он, прежде всего, гриот и отлично владеет корой. «Играть вместе с отцом – это мечта наяву, – признается Сидики. – Да, я работаю в стиле хип-хоп, но при этом уважаю свои корни. Я наследственный мастер игры на коре, поэтому хочу знать и уметь больше. Это здорово получить шанс научиться чему-то непосредственно у отца, потому что он мой кумир».
В альбоме Toumani & Sidiki звучат лишь два старинных африканских инструмента, – дуэт кор отца и сына, – без дополнительного аккомпанемента. Материал записывался в RAK studios на севере Лондона практически без репетиций, «живьем», безо всяких наложений. Стереозвук позволяет услышать игру Тумани в левом динамике, а Сидики – в правом. Репертуар альбома сочетает в себе неизвестные, почти забытые мелодии для коры и современные интерпретации некоторых классических мелодий народности манде. «Нам не хотелось отправляться в прошлое, стараясь играть точно так же, как мой отец или дед, – говорит Тумани. – Мы намеревались сделать это по-своему. Ведь мы современные гриоты, живем в городе и поддерживаем достаточно тесную связь с остальным миром». Объясняя свое желание донести до слушателей репертуар, доставшийся от предков, в современной манере, Тумани описывает альбом, как: «Прошлое встречается с настоящим ради будущего». И эта встреча, без сомнения, станет важной вехой в сохранении, развитии и популяризации народных традиций, потому что диск этот – просто шедевр музыкального искусства. Неблагодарное занятие – пытаться выбрать наиболее яркий фрагмент альбома, потому что все десять треков звучат, как единое целое, – нежно, изыскано и завораживающе. http://soloneba.com/toumani-diabate-sidiki-diabate/
Об исполнителях (англ.) | About Artists (en)
Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté is one of the most creatively prolific and successful musicians on the African continent, and was described by the Observer as 'one of the world's most pre-eminent musicians in any genre'. He plays the kora, a harp with 21 strings unique to West Africa. More than any other kora player, it's Toumani who is responsible for bringing this instrument to audiences around the world. He's a performer of truly exceptional virtuosity and creativity - someone who has shown that the kora can rival the world's greatest instruments.
Toumani was born in Bamako, the capital of Mali, in 1965 into a family of griots (hereditary musician/historian caste) whose lineage stretches back 71 generations, father to son. His father, Sidiki Diabaté (c. 1922-96), was a kora player of legendary fame in West Africa - dubbed King of the Kora – who became famous for his virtuoso “hot” and idiosyncratic style of playing, echoes of which can be heard in Toumani's style. Sidiki's first wife, Toumani's mother, was the singer Nene Koita.
Despite the musical environment in which Toumani was raised, he was self-taught, never learning directly from his father except by listening. He began playing the kora at the age of five at a time when the Malian Government was engaged in an active programme of encouraging regional ensembles to represent local traditions. Toumani was recruited to the ensemble from Koulikoro (some 60 kms east of Bamako) with whom he made his public debut at the age of 13 to great local acclaim. In 1984 Toumani joined the group of brilliant young musicians who accompanied the great diva Kandia Kouyate.
Toumani first came to the Europe in 1986 to accompany another Malian singer, Ousmane Sacko, and ended up staying in London for seven months. During this period, at the age of 21, he recorded his first solo album Kaira, the first ever solo kora album and still a best seller. In 1986 Toumani also made his first appearance at a WOMAD festival and made a significant impact.
In the UK, Toumani met and worked informally with musicians from many different fields of music. His first major recorded collaboration was with the Spanish flamenco group Ketama. The resulting album Songhai, with pieces like 'Jarabi', was a perfect synthesis of kora and flamenco.
In 1990 Toumani formed the Symmetric Orchestra, a name that evokes perfect balance or 'symmetry' between tradition and modernity and between the contributions of musicians from a number of closely related countries. Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Mali itself, were all part of the medieval Mandé Empire and Toumani had the idea of recreating its cultural equilibrium in a modern musical context.
The orchestra name was first used on CD for the elaborate projet Shake The Whole World released in 1992 in Japan and Mali only. Maintaining a weekly residence at the Hogon in Bamako throughout Toumani's career, the group continued to evolve and grow, culminating in the release of the acclaimed album Boulevard de l'Indépendance in 2005, and the extensive international touring that followed.
In the early to mid 1990s, Toumani began to gather a number of exceptionally talented musicians around him, such as the brilliant Bassekou Kouyate on the ngoni, and Keletigui Diabaté on balafon. He cultivated a type of jazz-jugalbandi-griot instrumental ensemble which can be heard on his album Djelika, released in 1995. In the same year Toumani travelled to Madrid to record Songhai 2.
In 1998 Toumani recorded a kora duet album with Ballake Sissoko; their respective fathers released the 1970s classic Cordes Anciennes (Ancient Strings), so the new album was called New Ancient Strings. It was their tribute to the original record and an attempt at bringing such material to a modern audience.
They say that the blues comes from Africa, so it seemed entirely natural that Toumani should collaborate with the bluesman Taj Mahal. Their groundbreaking album Kulanjan was released in 1999. Constantly on look out for ways to evolve and innovate, Toumani's next album MALIcool was a collaboration with the American free jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd that took another step out towards the edge. The arrangements are sparse, leaving everybody room to improvise, and there are a few unexpected pieces such as an interpretation of Thelonius Monk's 'Hank', a swinging version of a Welsh folk song, and a leftfield take on Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy'.
Toumani has participated in many other recording projects both at home and abroad: he appears on Ali Farka Touré's eponymous debut album for World Circuit; he toured with Salif Keita and appears on his acclaimed albums Papa and Mbemba; he was part of Damon Albarn's Mali Music project; he's featured on Kasse Mady Diabaté's 2004 Grammy nominated album Kassi Kasse, and in 2007 he featured on the track 'Hope' on Björk's album Volta, which lead to an inspired guest appearance on her set at the Glastonbury Festival.
Toumani has enjoyed recognition for his contributions to the development of the kora and African music in general. In 2004 he received the Zyriab des Virtuoses, a UNESCO prize awarded at the Mawazine Festival in Morocco. He's President and Director of Mandinka Kora Productions, who actively promote the kora through workshops, festivals, and various cultural events. He's also a teacher of the kora and of modern and traditional music at the Balla Fasseke Conservatoire of Arts, Culture and Multimedia in Bamako.
In 2004, Toumani began working with World Circuit on a trilogy of albums recorded at sessions in the Mandé Hotel in Bamako. The first release was the duets album In the Heart of the Moon, recorded with the great Ali Farka Touré, which won the Best Traditional World Music Album GRAMMY Award. Second in the trilogy was Boulevard de l'Indépendance by Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra. The third was Ali Farka's final solo album Savane. Toumani accompanied Ali on his last concert tour in the summer of 2005 during which they spent 3 days in a London studio recording Ali and Toumani, the follow up to In the Heart of the Moon, which also won a Grammy.
Taking time out from their weekly residency at Bamako's Hogon club (recently moved to Le Diplomat), Toumani Diabaté and his Symmetric Orchestra proved a revelation when they headlined venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall or festivals such as Glastonbury, Nice Jazz Festival, and Montreal Jazz Festival.
Toumani was also busy working on his next album The Mandé Variations, released in February 2008. It's an all-acoustic album, Toumani's first solo kora work since his groundbreaking debut album Kaira, released over twenty years before. Both the album and subsequent solo recitals were met with universal critical acclaim. Toumani performed a special concert with the London Symphony Orchestra and the year came to a climax with another GRAMMY Award nomination and an NAACP Image Award for The Mandé Variations. Toumani was appointed UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador in December 2008, using his music to spread awareness on HIV and AIDS.
2010 proved to be another prolific year for Toumani. The album Ali and Toumani was released at the start of the year to universal praise. Following its release, Toumani and his band played his interpretations of the music of Ali Farka Touré in a series of special concerts appropriately called The Ali Farka Touré Variations Tour, which included a special show in Paris with Ali's son Vieux stepping into his father's role for one night only.
That summer saw the premiere of AfroCubism, an all-star group featuring the finest musicians from Cuba and Mali, including Toumani. In 1996, a group of Mali's finest musicians were due to fly into Havana to collaborate with some of Cuba's most brilliant singers and instrumentalists. For reasons that have never been made clear, the Malians never arrived. A very different album was recorded: The Buena Vista Social Club. The rest, as they say, is multi-million selling history. World Circuit finally brought the original invitees together with a stellar line-up of additional talent at a series of inspirational sessions and the great lost Afro-Cuban album Afrocubism was released fourteen years after originally planned.
Toumani celebrated his second GRAMMY Award for Ali and Toumani in 2011. He also embarked on a new collaboration, this time with the Brazilian artists Arnaldo Antuñes and Edgard Scandurra, resulting in the album A Curva a Cintura.
The crisis that hit Mali in March 2012 had a deep effect on Toumani. He learned about the military coup that toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure when he was on his way to Wales to collaborate with the harpist Catrin Finch. Nightlife in Bamako, and the livelihoods of many musicians were extinguished for a while. The Islamist take over of the northern two-thirds of the country and the banning of music there also provoked profound antipathy in Toumani, who is not only one of Mali's most famous musicians but also a devout Muslim.
In March 2014 SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies) announced that Toumani Diabaté is to be awarded an Honorary degree of Doctor of Music (D.Mus) in recognition of his influential work in raising awareness of the kora and the traditional music of Mali around the world and his contribution to Mande scholarship, (which Mr Diabaté and his family have been involved with since the 1st Mande Studies Conference at SOAS in 1972). The only other musician to have received an Honary degree is the acclaimed pianist Daniel Barenboim, in 2008.
Mali's recent tragedy was one of the main impulses behind Toumani's decision to record an album of duets with his son, Sidiki Diabaté, a hugely talent kora player and a successful hip hop artist. He wanted to present the 72nd generation of Diabaté griots to the world, but also reaffirm his belief that Mali's most precious assets are its music and culture, its traditional faith and the bonds that bind its many different peoples.
Sidiki Diabaté
Born in Bamako, Mali in 1990, Sidiki Diabate is a kora-player and hip hop producer and the latest addition to the celebrated Diabate musical dynasty. He is the eldest son of the world's greatest kora player Toumani Diabaté, and the grandson of Sidiki Diabaté senior (1922-96) who was considered the greatest player of his generation. Like his father, and his grandfather before him Sidiki is a griot - a custodian of the ancient oral traditions of West Africa's Mandé people, which stretches back, father-to-son for over seven hundred years.
Sidiki was initiated into the world of the kora, the twenty-one stringed West African harp, when he was 10 years old. The story is told in 'Sidikiba's Kora Lesson' (Ryan Thomas Skinner, 2008), a popular coming-of-age children's book which is accompanied by an audio CD of his first recording. Since his initiation Sidiki has spent years of intense study of the kora and the culture which surrounds it.
Now twenty-three and a father himself, Sidiki is considered to be a musical genius, with formidable technique and a distinctive style. He personifies the kora's entry into the digital age; when he was a teenager he enrolled in the National Institute for the Arts in Bamako, taking up drums and learning digital recording techniques and in 2013 he was voted Mali's best beat-maker. As well as remaining true to the classical traditions of the kora, Sidiki sites contemporary western stars such as Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West as influences.
A few years ago Sidiki teamed up with rapper 'Iba One' to form a duo who have become leading lights in Mali's burgeoning rap scene. One of their biggest hits 'Hommage à Mohamed Cherif Madani Haidara', was a tribute to the son of a prominent religious leader who advocated tolerance. The duo also played a major role in the recording of 'On Veut La Paix' ('We Want Peace'), an all-star rap hymn to peace in Mali, which was released to great fanfare in 2012, when religious militants were attempting to outlaw music. The duo have performed to twenty thousand fans in Bamako's Modibo Keita stadium.
Sidiki's wish is to take his instrument, an emblem of seven hundred years of history, and make it an essential part of the changing environment around him. "You can't imagine a rap movement anywhere that has the power and force of rap here in Mali," says Toumani, his father. "Iba One and Sidiki Diabaté, they're the number one rappers in Mali. Their lyrics talk about the ills of our society, the problems. But at the same time their music is full of rhythm, in the true spirit of Malian music." Sidiki and his kora are at the forefront of a movement which is attempting to change political thinking in West Africa.
The recording of 'Toumani & Sidiki' (World Circuit, 2014) marks a poignant and significant moment in Sidiki's life. 'For me to play with my dad is like a dream. Yes I'm a hip-hop artist, but I love and respect my roots as a kora player, I want to know more. It's my chance to learn directly from my father. It's extra special because he is my idol'. http://www.toumaniandsidiki.com/biography
Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
Info for "Toumani & Sidiki"
In a rare father-and-son collaboration, Toumani Diabaté, genius of African music and widely recognised as the greatest living kora player, has recorded an album of duets with his son Sidiki, the instrument’s emerging star.
Described as “the finest Toumani collaboration since his classic work with Ali Farka Touré” (The Guardian) ‘Toumani & Sidiki’ is a dialogue conducted through the kora, the 21-string West African harp which the Diabaté dynasty has elevated into the most iconic of African instruments. Father-and-son collaborations are rare enough but the ties binding Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté are particularly profound and evocative. Descended from a line of griots - custodians of the ancient oral traditions of West Africa’s Mandé people stretching back seven hundred years - the names Toumani and Sidiki are significant names in the annals of African music.
Toumani’s father, Sidiki senior, recorded the first ever kora album, the classic Mali: Ancient Strings, in 1970, unwrapping the instruments potential as a virtuosic lead instrument. His son Toumani has taken it further, weaving together bass lines, ancient melodies and astonishing improvisations to create a kaleidoscope of musical colours. Since recording the first solo kora album in 1988, he has brought the instrument to the world, with albums, tours, GRAMMY awards and collaborations with the likes of Ali Farka Touré, Taj Mahal, Herbie Hancock, Damon Albarn and Bjork. Toumani has also built an impressive array of fans along the way, including President Barack Obama, who chose Toumani’s collaboration with Taj Mahal as his all-time favourite album.
Toumani’s eldest son Sidiki moves things forward again. In Mali’s capital Bamako the 23 year old is a star. Voted Mali’s best beat maker in 2013, Sidiki runs his own recording and programming studio and alongside rapper ‘Iba One’ is one half of the country’s premier hip-hop duo, who fill the 20,000 seater Modibo Keita stadium. At the same time he has a deep knowledge of Mande culture and a formidable technique on the kora. “It’s a dream to play with my father” he says. “Yes I’m a hip-hop artist, but I love and respect my roots as a kora player, I want to know more. It’s my chance to learn directly from my father. It’s extra special because my father is my idol.”
The album is a set of unaccompanied kora duets, recorded with little rehearsal (and for some songs no rehearsal) as ‘live’ with no overdubs at RAK studios north London. World Circuit’s team of producer Nick Gold and engineer Jerry Boys (Ali Farka Touré, Buena Vista Social Club, Orchestra Baobab) is complemented by co-producer Lucy Duran (producer of Toumani’s previous albums). Recorded in stereo Toumani can be heard in the left speaker and Sidiki on the right.
The repertoire is based on a combination of obscure, almost forgotten kora pieces and a new look at some Mande classics from Mali. “We’re not going backwards, trying to play just how my father and grandfather did these songs,” says Toumani. “We have to do it our way. We’re modern griots, we live in the city, we’re connected to the world. Speaking of his desire to transmit ancestral repertoire in a contemporary manner Toumani describes the album as ""The past meets the present for the future.""
The album arrived in the wake of the recent hard-line Islamic insurgency where a ban on music was attempted in the north of Mali. With this album Toumani wanted “to show the positive side of Mali”, to reassert the legacy of a country with access to untold musical riches. The songs are named, in griot tradition, to honour various people, places or events.
The playing is extraordinary. There is telepathic communication, the finishing of each other’s musical sentences - dazzling musicianship. The kora is the quietest of instruments but is here played with verve and attack, groove, wit, swing and bounce, ecstatic excitement and exquisite intimacy. And always with a flowing pulse and groove. ‘Toumani & Sidiki’ sounds unlike any other album of kora duets. https://shop.worldcircuit.co.uk/products/toumani-and-sidiki-toumani-and-sidiki-cd
Состав | Artists
Toumani Diabaté - kora
Sidiki Diabaté - kora
Lucy Duran, Nick Gold – producer
Engineer, Mixed by – Jerry Boys, Robbie Nelson
Mastered by – Tom Leader
Artwork – Julian House
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