sounds of Mali and all over
Fatoumata Diawara (with Yacouba Kone [guitar], Arecio Smith [keyboards], Juan Finger [bass], Willy Ombe [drums], and the Water and Sound Ensemble), “An Ka Bin,” live, Augsburg, Germany (Water & Sound Festival), 8/7/22
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sounds of Mali and all over
Fatoumata Diawara, live (“”Kanou Dan Yen,” “Nterini,” “Negue Negue”), Italy (Como), published 2/3/22
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I think of you daily and feel anxious lest we lose our old backward and forward flow that always seems to open me up and bring color and peace.
–Robert Lowell (1917-1977), letter (3/10/1963) to Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) (Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell)
sounds of Mali
Ballaké Sissoko (kora) with Sona Jobarteh (kora, voice),”Djourou,” 2/17/21
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sounds of Mali and Paris
Salif Keita (1949-), “Cono,” live, Japan, 1990
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Another take.
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How about something quiet, and delicate, and beautiful?
Ballaké Sissoko (1968-, kora), live, Paris, 2017
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Quick the world rushed out like waters.
—Eimear McBride (1976-), A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
sounds of Iran and Mali
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Kayhan Kalhor (1963-, kamancheh) and Toumani Diabaté (1965-, kora), live, Germany (Osnabrück), 2016
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day two
Trio Da Kali (Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, vocals; Mamadou Kouyaté, bass ngoni, vocals; Fodé Lassana Diabaté, balafon), live (studio), Seattle, 2017
“Eh Ya Ye”
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“Kanimba”
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“Guede”
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“Dissa”
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the morning light is in us
—Peter Gizzi, from “Lullaby”
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Salif Keita, live, London, c. 2002
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We humans—
squirming around
among the blossoming flowers.—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
sounds of Mali
Salif Keita, live, London, c. 2002
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what’s new
Amadou & Mariam, “Bofou Safou,” “Dimanche à Bamako,” “Filaou Bessame,” live, Washington, D.C., 1/19/2018
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