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Kora - Skankenstein
Lankandia Cissoko, Mandingo griot from Senegal, performs traditional Kora music. Lankandia is from a distinguished family of traditional Mandingo musicians.
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Ketama/SongHai with Toumani Diabate on kora. A legendary fusion with Danny Tompson, Toumani Diabate and Ketama
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Mamadou Diabate Ensemble:
Baye Kouyate (calabash and talking drum), Noah Jarrett (acoustics bass), Mamadou Diabate (composer, arranger and kora), Balia Kouyate (balafon), Djikorya Mory Kante (guitar)
Malian kora musician, Mamadou Diabate is a member of the Mandinka West African jeli (musician caste) family. His musical lineage goes back seven centuries to the time of Sunjata Keita, the conqueror of the Malian empire.
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A traditional Djele, or griot, Lankandia plays a fast style of Kora music native to Casamance, Senegal. For more information, visit: www.iasorecords.com
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Jali from the Gambia, busking in Manchester on the day of the bombs...
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TOUMANI DIABATE & THE SYMMETRIC ORCHESTRA
Kora lessons from the master, recorded live at WOMAD 2008, Taranaki, New Zealand
A kora is built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator, and has a notched bridge like a lute or guitar. The sound of a kora resembles that of a harp, though when played in the traditional style, it bears a closer resemblance to flamenco guitar techniques. The player uses only the thumb and index finger of both hands to pluck the strings in polyrhythmic patterns (using the remaining fingers to hold the sticks either side of the strings and secure the instrument). Ostinato riffs ("Kumbeng") and improvised solo runs ("Biriminting") are played at the same time by skilled players.
Kora players have traditionally come from griot families (also from the mandinka tribes) who are traditional historians, genealogists and storytellers who pass their skills on to their descendants. The instrument is played in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and The Gambia. A traditional kora player is called a Jali, similar to a 'bard' or oral historian.
Traditional koras feature 21 strings, eleven played by the left hand and ten by the right. Modern koras made in the Casamance region of southern Senegal sometimes feature additional bass strings, adding up to four strings to the traditional 21. Strings were traditionally made from thin strips of hide, for example antelope skin - now most strings are made from harp strings or nylon fishing line, sometimes plaited together to create thicker strings.
By moving leather tuning rings up and down the neck, a kora player can retune the instrument into one of four seven-note scales. These scales are close in tuning to western Major, Minor and Lydian modes.
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Our born-to-be-legendary 2weeks tour on the river Gambia with concerts in Sanyang, Georgetown, Basse Santa Su, Bansang, Kuntaur, Sukuta, Kololi and in our favourite place: Bundung.
The 40 people of our "extended band family" we were driving around 50 miles every day on two boats up and down the river.
In the afternoons we arrived in the villages of our destination. After greeting the Alkali, the Chief of town, our technical crew tried to setup our PA in front of a big Baobab or in one of the youth centers. They tried and they succeded everytime, somehow, but they were very tired at the end of the tour. Later in the evenings we played our concerts ... and nobody stayed at home. we are planning to bring out a documentary about this tour. this is just a teaser
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Najnowszy klip Kory i 5th Element z płyty Metamorfozy
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With the kora player Mamadou Diabate (Mali / USA) in my home in Vienna in March 2006.
He belongs to the north-western branch of the Diabates with the kora tradition, I (Burkina Faso / Austria) belong to the south-eastern branch maintaining the balafon tradition.
Our family has maintained the art of making music for many centuries. The first Diabate was mentioned in the Sundjata Epos from the 13th century.
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