Video: Bassekou Kouyate on Later... with Jools Holland Season 35 Episode 6 // 20 October 2009

music OMH review The quartet play with a virtuosic style that also proves extremely hypnotic. Even when taking a back seat to the calming vocals of Jamana Be Diya or Torin Torin, the continuous thrumming in the background is a thing of beauty, providing energy and momentum to the music but also existing in a trance-like state of consonant harmonies. The instrumental episodes are more improvised, very much of the moment, I remember seeing this performance on Jools - excellent [...]

CD REVIEW Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: I Speak Fula (Sub Pop/Next Ambiance) USA release date: 2 February 2010 Seems these days you can't read a 2009 top 10 list without tripping over this album. To be sure, I Speak Fula is a superb offering of West African music, centered around the bajno-like hunter's harp known as ngoni . Great percussion, great energy, and guest artists including Vieux Farka Toure, Kassy Mady Diabate, and Toumani [...]

tineni - 4:55 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba fueron declarados el año pasado como " El mejor disco del año " por su primer álbum Segu Blue por parte de la BBC Radio Awards de World Music . Como comentaba entonces es difícil decidir quién es mejor que otro en este inmedible arte de la música, pero sin duda el músico maliense merece ser destacado por el trato que da a " La madre de todas las guitarras ", a la sazón un instrumento fundamental en [...]