Sissoko,Ballake And Segal,Vincent / Musique De Nuit
Album: | Musique De Nuit | Collection: | World | |
Artist: | Sissoko,Ballake And Segal,Vincent | Added: | Oct 2015 | |
Label: | Six Degrees Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2015-10-17 | Pull Date: | 2015-12-19 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
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Week Ending: | Dec 13 | Dec 6 | Nov 29 | Nov 22 | Nov 15 | Nov 8 | Nov 1 | Oct 25 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Sep 18, 2021: | Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Nov 21, 2015)
Balazando |
4. | Nov 02, 2017: | Melange
Passa Quatro |
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2. | Sep 04, 2021: | Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Oct 24, 2015)
N'kapalema |
5. | Dec 09, 2015: | 12-9-2015
Super Etoile, Passa Quatro, Niandou |
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3. | Mar 22, 2018: | Melange
N'kapalema |
6. | Dec 03, 2015: | Melange
Niandou |
Album Review
Margy Kahn
Reviewed 2015-10-16
Reviewed 2015-10-16
Exquisite duets between a Malian kora (African harp) player and a French cellist; magical, inspired, recorded in Bamako; a feast of stringed sounds
No FCC's: all instrumental except #6
**1-(6:34) Niandou – quiet, lilting, beautiful, percussive rhythm of plucked kora and cellountil cellist bows melody; incredible virtuosity
*2-(4:52) Passa Quatro –slow bowed cello at beginning; pensive with kora flourishes; minor or modal; segues into guitar-like jazz
*3-(6:26) Balazando – jazz-like beginning with plucked cello bass; ostinato bowed sounds underneath treble kora; waltz rhythm; cello goes to pizzicato while rhythm stays steady
**4-(7:52) N'kapalema – starts with quiet chords; walking bass; kora gives treble accents; gathers weight slowly; circles around and around in ¾ time; cello kicks in with melody; gradually picks up speed and segues into a complex richness of fast plucked kora notes anchored by bowed bass cello
5-(5:16) Diabaro – starts with bowed cello and griot singer, kora comes in an doubles accompaniment
*6-(3:55) Super Etoile – kora set up nice ostinato at beginning; bowed cello comes in with melody; moves right along; kora really stands out here; so natural-sounding, like raindrops falling with different pitches
7-(1:12) Prelude – pretty, quiet; nice interlude
*8-(3:51) Samba Tomora – absolutely legato, so impressive for a plucked instrument, moves along seamlessly with cello echoing kora
*9-(2:42) Musique de Nuit- slower, with kora and cello in unison at beginning; simple circular melody splits apart with kora providing melody and then back to unison and so on
Track Listing
1. | Niandou | 5. | Diabaro | |||
2. | Passa Quatro | 6. | Super Etoile | |||
3. | Balazando | 7. | Prelude | |||
4. | N'kapalema | 8. | Samba Tomora | |||
9. | Musique De Nuit |