Sabou

Mory Kante - Sabou

Sabou
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Artist: Mory Kante
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Soundtracks:
  1. Nafiya (Bad People)
  2. Djou (The Enemy)
  3. Mama
  4. Diananko (What I Love)
  5. Sabou (Cause)
  6. Kènkan (The Good Intentions We Have)
  7. Moko
  8. Loniya (Knowledge)
  9. Désolé (Sorry)
  10. Biriya (Rythmes du Mandingue) (The Transition to Adulthood)

Description of Sabou

Sabou is an all-acoustic release by the legendary West African singer and kora player Mory Kanté, the first African artist to sell a million singles with 'Yéké Yéké', which topped the European charts in 1988. An exceptionally talented griot from Guinea in West Africa and a contemporary with Salif Keita in the Rail Band back in the 1970s, Mory Kanté has produced a stunning new album of depth and poise that is firmly grounded in his traditional griot roots.
In 1988, a Guinée-born kora (West African harp-lute) maestro burst upon the scene with "Yeké Yeké," a crowd-pleasing electrified dance hit. But like most Manding jelis (aka griots---hereditary musician/praise-singer and/or historians), his success followed a rigorous childhood apprenticeship, after which Kanté began to perform throughout Africa before eventually migrating to Paris. These days, he is also an activist, having been appointed F.A.O. ambassador in the mission to fight hunger and poverty worldwide. Sabou constitutes a long-awaited return to Kanté's ancestral heritage, an impassioned, crisply produced acoustic set complete with breathy flutes, chime-laced percussion, and joyous call-and-response female choirs. But like his former Rail Band collaborator, Salif Keita, whose recent unplugged masterpiece, Moffou, created a sensation, Kanté is incapable of producing a stuffy, hide-bound retread. Every track crackles with modernity and invention, as refreshing and changeable as tomorrow's winds. Do not---repeat, do not---miss this one! --Christina Roden

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