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Segu Blue (CD)

By: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Segu Blue (CD) Album By Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba (A...
1   Tabali Te - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
2   Bassekou - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
3   Jonkoloni - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
4   Juru Nani - (with Kassemady Diabate/Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
5   Mbowdi - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Zoumana Tereta/Ngoni Ba)
6   River Tune, The - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
7   Andra's Song - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
8   Ngoni Fola - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
9   Banani - (with Lobi Traore/Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
10   Bala - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
11   Segu Tonjon - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
12   Sinsani - (with Kassemady Diabate/Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
13   Lamet For Ali Farka - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
14   Segu Blue (Poyi) - (with Bassekou Kouyate/Ngoni Ba)
 

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Down Beat (p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's striking how much timbral and pitch range the instruments produce, from low-end grooves to sweet-toned leads."
Dirty Linen (p.78) - "Malian artist Bassekou Kouyate is a master of the ngoni, a traditional stringed instrument that is plucked rather than strummed....Fans of stripped-down acoustic blues will find much to like about this album."

Title Note

Additional personnel: Kassemady Diabate, Zoumana Tereta, Lobi Traore.

After a career as the sideman to such names as Taj Mahal and Ali Farka Toure, Malian Bassekou Kouyate finally stepped out on his own with the enveloping beauty SEGA BLUE. Starring the ngoni, a five-string instrument of traditional West Africa with tonal qualities somewhere between a percussive banjo and a plucked lute, SEGA BLUE finds Kouyate--himself a master ngoni player--and three cohorts interlocking expressive pentatonic riffs across 14 elliptical tracks. Most of the songs lyrically focus on the Bambara empire in pre-colonial 18th century Mali, but a few standouts such as the elegiac "Lament for Ali Farka" depart from the concept. With Kouyate's wife, Ami Sacko, and Zoumana Tereta expressively sharing vocal duties over the quartet's loping grooves, SEGA BLUE stands as a classic of contemporary West African music.

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