| Sissoko,Ballake And Segal,Vincent / Musique De Nuit |
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| Album: | Musique De Nuit | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Sissoko,Ballake And Segal,Vincent | Added: | 10/2015 | |
| Label: | Six Degrees Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-10-17 | Pull Date: | 2015-12-19 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | 13 Dec | 6 Dec | 29 Nov | 22 Nov | 15 Nov | 8 Nov | 1 Nov | 25 Oct |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 3. | Mar 22, 2018: | Melange N'kapalema | 6. | Dec 03, 2015: | Melange Niandou |
| Album Review |
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| Margy Kahn Reviewed 2015-10-16 | ||
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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 |
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| 1. | Niandou | 5. | Diabaro | |||
| 2. | Passa Quatro | 6. | Super Etoile | |||
| 3. | Balazando | 7. | Prelude | |||
| 4. | N'kapalema | 8. | Samba Tomora | |||
| 9. | Musique De Nuit | |||||