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Kaouding Cissoko was a very great Senegalese korafolá A
korafolá is a kora player in mandinka (who is able to make the kora talk) - korafolálu, plural. , unfortunately gone so early in july 2003 ; he played and toured many times with Salif Keita Very great artist from Mali, Salif Keita has so much contributed to large spreading of African world music all around the world... Read more.,
Baaba Maal - he joined the
Baaba Maal's band "Daande Lenol" in 1991, the Afro-Celt System's band (he had been one of the co-founders of that band), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ernest Ranglin, Mansour Seck and so many eminent world
musicians.
Kora fans have lost such a great master and Kaouding's peers are still mourning that cruel loss.
In his solo album «Kora Revolution », Kaouding exhibits a great and undisputed
virtuosic kora playing as he performs in a perfect classical kora playing style - that is typically inherent to Cissoko «jelílu jèlí (plural, jèlílu)
is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read
more.». Listen to him performing KairaDuring the years 1940 and 1950, when the movement for independence started, «Kaira» was the name
adopted by the association of the young jelis of the city Kita... Read more about. under the title "Hero" with Baba Maal at lead vocals or when, inspirated, Kaouding leads his crew of
singers on the traditional praise song «Lamban » entitled « Bannaya ».
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook, Night Song © 1996 - Real World - RW50 |
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Baaba Maal, Nomad Soul © 1998 - Island Records (feat. Kaouding Cissoko) |
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Kaouding Cissoko, Kora Revolution © 1999 - Yoff / Rykodisc |
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