Reviews
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Miri (Out Here Records)
For "Miri", an album on which the ngoni master tackles powerful sentiments like love, friendship and family values, Bassekou Kouyate returned to Garama, his native village situated on the banks of the Niger River, midway between the capital Bamako and Segou.
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Ba Power (Glitterbeat Records)
After three albums by Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba yours truly thought to have heard everything you could squeeze out of a ngoni, but somehow Kouyate but still manages to make 'Ba Power' sound fresh and exciting again.
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Jama Ko (Out Here Records)
What for a long time was considered impossible, became terrible reality in 2012: Mali came under threat of a fundamentalist Muslim movement tearing the country in two with their version of sharia law.
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula (Out Here Records)
If you know the ngoni was traditionally only used in a seated position, you can imagine the reactions of the Malian crowd when Bassekou Kouyate decided to play his solo standing up one day, hereby taking a central position on stage.
Interviews
BASSEKOU KOUYATE - ZUIDERPERSHUIS 11/2007
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