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Folon...The Past (CD)

By: Salif Keita (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Folon...The Past (CD) Album By Salif Keita (Artist)
1   Tekere
2   Mandjou
3   Africa
4   Nyanyama
5   Mandela
6   Sumun
7   Seydou
8   Dakan-Fe
9   Folon
 

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Review

Q (2/96, p.64) - Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995 - "...a nod towards reggae, and vintage highlife....an artist at ease with himself and his culture..."
Down Beat (8/96, p.65) - 4 1/2 Stars - Very Good/Excellent - "...the crack ensemble seamlessly fuses griot songs with reggae, funk and fusion....Keita himself, one of the most soulful singers on the planet, carries the emotional weight."
JazzTimes (3/96, p.121) - "...a master has returned. Keita's transcendant tenor sails above a jubilant web of chattering guitars, grooving drums, horn-spiked punches....an epic poem to Africa..."
Sing Out! (5-6-7/96, p.151) - "...intensity of focus may make FOLON less accessible to American tastes...but hard-core fans will find a new, more personal understanding of Keita's music here."

Title Note

Personnel: Salif Keita (vocals); Ousmane Kouyate, Diely Moussa Kouyate (guitar); Glaucus Xavier (saxophone); Ron Meza, Feliove Guillermo (trumpet); Jean-Louis Damant (trombone); Cheick Tidiane Seck, Eddy Emilien, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Wally Badarou (keyboards); N'Doumbe Djengue (bass); Mokhtar Samba (drums); Souleymane "Solo" Doumbia, Sydney Thiam (percussion); Lansine "Boua" Kouyate (balafon); Moriba Koita (n'goni); Djene Doumbouya, Nayanka Bell, Djanka Diabate, Bessy Gordon, Angeline Annonier, Mora Birbeck, N'Doumbe Djengue, Wally Badarou (background vocals).

Producers: Wally Badarou, Jean-Philippe Rykiel.

Engineers: Timour Cardenas, Jean-Philippe Rykiel.

Principally recorded at Studios Ferber and Studios Bastille, Paris, France.

One of Mali's many excellent cultural exports (alongside Ali Farka Toure and Oumou Sangare), Salif Keita is a significant figure on the world-music stage. FOLON finds Keita's voice--a rich tenor that is sensual, nimble, and fierce all at once--in excellent form. (His soulful, looping embellishments sometimes recall Islamic prayer calls.) Keita's music is a synthesis of styles drawing heavily on African elements, Latin music, Europop, and American idioms such as jazz, soul, and funk; and FOLON brings this blend on strong.

"Tekere" starts the disc off with an undulating bass line that intertwines with a percolating guitar, vibrant rhythms, and punchy horns. One of Keita's trademark vocal techniques is the call-and-response he conducts with his female backing singers, and this vocal interchange is key to the chant-like "Mandela" and the bright, danceable "Sumun." However, the mellow groove of "Mandjou" (one of the disc's highlights) showcases Keita's solo voice. In musical breadth and its smart, propulsive mixture of global styles, FOLON is an excellent example of this Malian star's work.

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