#mali blues

[nacapito]

Mali Blues

The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America's cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger. As fundamentalist Islam and sharia law become more widespread, dance and secular music are prohibited, musical instruments are destroyed, and musicians are forced to flee their homeland.

The vibrant documentary MALI BLUES follows four artists: Fatoumata "Fatou" Diawara is a rising star on the global pop scene (memorably featured in Abderrahmane Sissako's acclaimed drama Timbuktu). Bassekou Kouyate is a celebrated ngoni player and traditional griot. Master Soumy is a young street rapper influenced by hip-hop. Ahmed Ag Kaedi is the leader of the Tuareg band Amanar and a guitar virtuoso. Each combines rich musical traditions with contemporary influences, using their music to stand up to extremism and inspire tolerance and peace.

+ A shameless display of the time I watched and enjoyed Ahmed Ag Kaedy's music ✨

#desert blues #mali blues #Vimeo

[aggelos965]

#youtube #blues music #folk music #ali farka touré #Mali blues

[urtopia]

#Spotify #fatoumata diawara #mali blues #wassoulou

[prinsomnia]

canephores ✸ am so excited to finally share my piece for the third and final volume of @nova_mali's Classics But Make It Gay 🌞🌷 its a beautiful beautiful collection of reinterpreted classical artwork for and by the LGBTQ+ community! my piece is a remake of Bouguereau's Canéphore, a piece where I instantly saw the potential for a lovely gay polycule love piece. I hope y'all like it 🌈✨ Do know that there's less than a week left for you to pre-order a copy! 👁 👁 we, the 70+ artists who worked on this book would be very happy to see your support. 👇 get your copy (and more!) here 💌: https://www.novaandmali.com/shop

#illustration #aesthetic #plants #classics #polyamory #polycule #canephores #zines #classics but make it gay #blue #scenery #mythology #digital art #art ph #portfolio #prinsomnia #nova and mali

[mxlly143]

揺れ動く心の奥 - YURA YURA ZEROBASEONE

Matthew | ZB1

#mxlly #mxlii #kpop #mali random posts💋 #moodboard #kpop moodboard #mxlii moodboards #gif by joyins #zb1 matthew #zb1 moodboard #zb1 #zbrush #zb1 imagines #zb1 scenarios #zb1 x reader #zb1 ricky #zerobaseone gyuvin #zerobaseone reactions #zerobaseone scenarios #zerobaseone #blue moodboard #blue #blue eyes #blue lock #blue archive #green moodboard #green #green day #green lantern #green aesthetic

[deadassdiaspore]

Eyadou Ag Leche of Tinariwen, Coachella Music Festival, 2009.

#Eyadou Ag Leche #Tinariwen #African music #Desert blues #African musicians #Tuareg #Mali #North Africa

[divanstrawberry]

в честь дня рождения пригласили соседскую девочку Мали

как быстро они растут((

#sims 4 screenshots #miltonlegacy #sims 4 legacy #simblr #*iris kingston #*mali reynolds #*sam blue

[dustedmagazine]

Bounaly — Dimanche á Bamako (Sahel Sounds)

A rougher, more urgent take on desert blues, this live performance by the Malian guitar hero Bounaly crackles and frays with frantic energy. Put it beside the double-tapping pyrotechnics of Mdou Moctar, and it sounds almost punk. Listen to it after the nodding, swaying grandeur of Tinariwen and feel the adrenaline surge. It’s clearly from the same general West African tradition, but hopped up and aggressively, defiantly joyful. Bounaly has been through a lot to get here—rural isolation, poverty, tribal violence and more. Now it’s Sunday afternoon, relatively calm and in the company of friends. Is it too much to ask that you get up and shake your ass?

Bounaly hails from Niafounke, a small town in central Mali best known as Ali Farka Touré’s birthplace. It’s a town that’s famous for music, where music is a key part of the local economy. Touré, for instance, used part of his earnings to pay for an irrigation system; he’s been the mayor of the town. And yet even here, where everyone understands the spiritual and commercial value of music, factional violence has turned things upside down. Bounaly fled to Bamako when war in Northern Mali spilled over into his hometown.

Dimanche á Bamako documents the way that the dispossessed come together, far from home, to celebrate the sounds that they grew up among. On Sundays in Bamako, people gather in squares and streets and courtyards around make-shift sound systems as immigrant northerners let their desert sound rip.

And rip it does—with a vengeance. “Wato To” takes shape above the murmur of audience members, its guitar licks searing, its rhythmic pulse driving and strong, a thread of melancholy woven through its hip-moving grooves. The sound quality isn’t perfect, but this somehow adds to the charm. Guitar solos flare in mid-flight into frantic buzz, like a phoenix catching fire to live one more time. About halfway through the cut kicks up a notch, both in tempo and in energy, pitched drums rattling, guitar spiraling, Bounaly shouting and grunting and yelping in increasingly frantic bursts. You can’t hear this part without picturing bodies in motion, arms raised, hands punching, a sea of cathartic gesture, of communal release.

Bounaly has his lyrical side. “Ma Cherie” unspools in languid eddies and swirls of guitar, the vocals full of longing. But it, too, catches fire mid-cut, in a burst of trebly, quick fingered shredding that rachets up tension in stair steps, higher and higher and higher, before subsiding into a liquid groove. But it’s the antic, manic, speed-addled rushes like “Mali Mussow” that really stand out, where the band is playing as fast as it can and the people, you imagine, are hopping frantically to keep up. It’s like the world is after them, and maybe it is, and only music can magic the danger away.

Jennifer Kelly

#bounaly #Dimanche á Bamako #sahel sounds #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #desert blues #mali

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: Tisnant an Chatma by Tamikrest

#Desert blues #Mali #Tamikrest #Bandcamp #music

[snowynowak]

with june starting in a couple hours (in eastern time anyway) i just wanna say that if i see any of you motherfuckers engaging in flag discourse i will not hesitate to block

this is, indeed, US-specific, but FL s.b. 1438, h.b. 1421 and 1069, CS/SB 254: treatments for sex reassignment.

florida and other republican-controlled states are creating a trans refugee crisis within the united states. we do not have the luxury to focus on what flags are "problematic" for this or that reason. please focus on shit that actually matters, like fighting back against immoral laws restricting human rights (courtesy the party of "small government" and "personal freedoms")

#pride #flag discourse #pride discourse #please stop focusing on fucking flags #it's not even an uncommon thing for flags to look like one another? #look at the flags for chad and romania #or indonesia and monaco #or senegal and mali #or haiti and liechtenstein #the list goes on and on and on #anyway we don't have the fucking luxury to focus on flags please focus on things that actually fucking matter #take your fucking “toothpaste flag barf emoji” or “ew yellow-pink-blue pan flag? use the green-pink-blahblah instead” shit and shove it #signed a 30 year old enby who is so fucking tired of pride flag discourse

[hotniatheron]

#when the Mali to Mississippi Delta blues connection hits #music

[big-low-t]

Ali Farka Touré Feat. Oumou Sangaré - Cherie

#ali farka toure #oumou sangaré #desert blues #world music #mali

[whileiamdying]

Né en 1942 à Kayes au Mali, Boubacar TRAORÉ a émergé dans les années 1960 au Mali comme vedette et symbole du pays nouvellement indépendant. Ses chansons, très populaires, chantent l'avènement du Mali indépendant et de son président, Modibo Keïta. Cependant, il n'effectue aucun enregistrement, et comme il n'y a aucun droits d'auteur payés aux musiciens, il reste très pauvre et doit travailler pour joindre les deux bouts. Lorsque Modibo Keita est renversé par Moussa Traoré en 1968, Boubacar Traoré, considéré comme un artiste du régime précédent, disparait des ondes. Sa popularité s'étiole, jusqu'à son retour surprise à la télévision en 1987, alors que tout le monde le croyait mort. Après la mort en couches de sa femme en 1989, il émigre en France et effectue des travaux dans la construction pour subvenir aux besoins de ses six enfants. Un producteur britannique découvre une bande de ses enregistrements radio à Bamako, se met à sa recherche et lui fait signer un contrat. Son premier album, Mariama, sort en 1990. Depuis lors, Traoré connait la popularité internationale, voyageant de l'Europe à l'Afrique et en Amérique du Nord. Boubacar Traoré était le sujet en 2001 du film Je chanterai pour toi de Jacques Sarasin, sorti en DVD en 2005 et du livre Mali Blues de Lieve Joris, aux éditions Actes Sud. Boubacar publie Kongo Magni (Marabi, 2005) produit par Christian Mousset, le directeur de Festival Musiques Métisses d’Angoulême qui produit également ensuite Mali Denhou (Lusafrica, 2010). Kar Kar rattrape le temps perdu et conquiert les scènes d’Europe, puis des États-Unis et du Canada. Il sort l'album Mbalimaou (Mes frères), en janvier 2015. En 2017, il part enregistrer en Louisiane son album Dounia Tabolo (Lusafrica 2017) aux côtés de Leyla McCalla, Corey Harris et Cédric Watson. — Wikipedia

#Boubacar TRAORÉ #Kayes #Mali #Blues #Musique

[nonenglishsongs]

Thursday's Covers Day | Songhoy Blues - Kashmir (Songhay)

#desert blues cover of the led zeppelin song #thursday's covers day #songhoy blues #kashmir #songhay #nilosaharan #africa #mali #2015 #2010s #rock #what language is this #Youtube

[krispyweiss]

New Orleans Drummer Russell Batiste Dies at 57

- “He was like a brother to me,” Batiste’s Vida Blue bandmate Page McConnell says

Russell Batiste, the New Orleans drummer who played with the Funky Meters, Dumpstaphunk, Vida Blue and other groups, has died.

Batiste was 57 and died Sept. 30 after a heart attack, Nola.com reported.

Phish’s Page McConnell, who played with Batiste in Vida Blue, called the news “devastating.”

“He was like a brother to me,” the keyboardist said of the drummer, whom Mickey Hart described as a “living legend” in a eulogy posted to social media.

“I’m stunned and saddened that the world of the rhythm masters has lost its very best,” the former Grateful Dead percussionist said. “This loss is felt not only in New Orleans but in reverberation across the globe.”

Papa Mali marveled at Batiste’s onstage prowess and thanked his late collaborator for their shared music-making experiences.

“Most great musicians are intuitive, but you took that to another level and I can truly say, that every single time we played together, I came away, a better musician,” Mali said.

10/22/23

#russell batiste #the funky meters #dumpstaphunk #vida blue #page mcconnell #phish #mickey hart #grateful dead #dead & company #papa mali

[auraphilopatora]

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